{"id":950,"date":"2012-02-03T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/?p=950"},"modified":"2025-06-23T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:59:08","slug":"jan-peter-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/2012\/02\/03\/jan-peter-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Peter Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jan Peter Hammer
Die Unsichtbare Hand
3. Februar \u2013 18. M\u00e4rz 2012
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\u201cFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Kunstverein Arnsberg is pleased to announce its exhibition \u201cThe Invisible Hand\u201d, a solo show by German artist Jan Peter Hammer. Born in Kirchheim unter Teck, Jan Peter Hammer\u2019s artistic practice revolves around narrative and the articulation of text and image. The artist often works with video installation and slide projections in which real events are etched onto fictional stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition at Kunstverein Arnsberg takes as its departing point some of the artist\u2019s latest video works, \u201cThe Fable of the Bees\u201d, \u201cThe Anarchist Banker\u201d and \u201cDer Ausflug\u201d (The Getaway). Sharing a common topic all three pieces are hefty reflections on the consequences of rugged individualism and free-market economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Fable of the Bees\u201d is a 1705 poem by Bernard Mandeville in which the author brings into being the counter-intuitive argument that better people make the world a worse place, since so-called vices such as egoism or greed stimulate social prosperity, whilst altruism or honesty result in collective atavism and disinvestment. Shot in the guise of a YouTube homemade production, Jan Peter Hammer\u2019s eponymous video shows an eager young professional unwittingly channeling Mandeville\u2019s reasoning, providing a good illustration of the adage that \u201cpractical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist\" (J.M. Keynes).\nNamed after a short story written in 1922 by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, \u201cThe Anarchist Banker\u201d emulates the style of a talk show, in which the host interviews a banker in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The dialogue\u2019s original content has been adapted to reflect the financial practices of neo-liberalism and the resulting credit crunch. The words of Arthur Ashenking lead us on a journey through the arch of history, from the writings of Max Stirner to the economic policies of Milton Friedman. The banker\u2019s inexorable logic, with which he explains the core of his economical philosophy and debunks his opponent is, however, faithful to the original, and proves itself uncannily contemporary in its defense of \u2018rational egoism\u2019 and unabashed individualism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Der Ausflug<\/em> \u201cDer Ausflug\u201d (The Getaway) illustrates a self-fulfilling prophecy. A young couple meets for a first date in a bucolic scenario but their expectations differ. The young woman is in a romantic mood. Her partner, however, takes her presence for granted, and behaves unwittingly rude by airing his views on the \u201cimpossibility of love under the aegis of rational choice\u201d \u2013 a thesis which will, ironically, provide a considerably accurate assessment of his own situation. rational choice<\/em>\u201c zu schreiben \u2013 einer These die ironischerweise seine eigene momentane Situation in akkurater Weise beschreibt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The past is unpredictable; the way we recall and reconstruct past experiences is as unsettled as the way History narrates itself. Self and society remain locked in a dialectical loop. Narration is a recursive interplay, in which personal stories are always sketched against the backdrop of an historical leitmotif. Jan Peter Hammer\u2019s characters are, thus, both familiar and sui generis, ordinary and unique, idiosyncratic and clich\u00e9d. As if led by an invisible hand, their innermost beliefs are an expression of the zeitgeist and their rational certainties are founded on ideology, yet they remain unyielding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zusammen mit den oben genannten Werken umfasst Die Unsichtbare Hand <\/em>Together with the above-mentioned pieces, the exhibition \u201cThe Invisible Hand\u201d will comprise a selection of ancillary works: neon-sculptures, photographs and slide projections which will provide the viewers with a comprehensive view into the artist\u2019s manifold practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jan Peter HammerDie Unsichtbare Hand3. Februar \u2013 18. M\u00e4rz 2012 \u201cFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.\u201d (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Kunstverein Arnsberg freut sich die Soloausstellung Die Unsichtbare Hand des deutschen K\u00fcnstlers Jan Peter Hammer, geboren in Kirchheim unter Teck, anzuk\u00fcndigen. Jan Peter Hammers k\u00fcnstlerische Praxis dreht sich um Narration und die Artikulation von Text und Bild. Der K\u00fcnstler arbeitet h\u00e4ufig mit Videoinstallationen und synchronisierten Diaprojektionen, in denen […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}