Hardcover
Publisher: Hatje Cantz.
Dimensions: 24.3 x 30.2 cm
Pages: 106
The exhibition STAND was a site-specific installation by Robert Longo, with which he spectacularly charged the architecture of the Berlin gallery Capitain Petzel in 2012.
The glass facade of the building was covered with a huge black and white fragment of the US flag. Upon entering the rooms, the viewer was confronted with a large-format charcoal drawing of the entire flag as the basis for the exterior design. Robert Longo (*1953 in Brooklyn, New York) flanked this US flag with two other large formats, on one side countless Occupy Wall Street demonstrators from a bird's eye view, on the other side a lonely US soldier walking towards an uncertain future. In the main hall of the gallery was Longo's updated version of Hans Haacke's oil painting, Hommage à Marcel Broodthaers (1982).
Instead of the oil portrait of Ronald Reagan opposite a photograph of the mass demonstration in Bonn against the stationing of the Pershing II missiles, he showed President Obama as a photorealistic larger-than-life drawing opposite a large tableau of members of the radical Tea Party movement.
The glass facade of the building was covered with a huge black and white fragment of the US flag. Upon entering the rooms, the viewer was confronted with a large-format charcoal drawing of the entire flag as the basis for the exterior design. Robert Longo (*1953 in Brooklyn, New York) flanked this US flag with two other large formats, on one side countless Occupy Wall Street demonstrators from a bird's eye view, on the other side a lonely US soldier walking towards an uncertain future. In the main hall of the gallery was Longo's updated version of Hans Haacke's oil painting, Hommage à Marcel Broodthaers (1982).
Instead of the oil portrait of Ronald Reagan opposite a photograph of the mass demonstration in Bonn against the stationing of the Pershing II missiles, he showed President Obama as a photorealistic larger-than-life drawing opposite a large tableau of members of the radical Tea Party movement.