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David Krepfle - AMERICAS FEARS II

Opening: 25.04.2008, 19.00-23.00 h

Duration: 25.04. - 23.05.2008

»AMERICAS FEARS II«

The Ex-New-York-Artist David Krepfle has been living now for two years in Berlin. In his series of works titeled »Americas Fears« he creates a distant but affactionate view on his own nation. By means of irony and sometimes black humor Krepfles mask like sculptures deal with the disintegrating self-perception of the US. His works uncover the collective memory in comic like icons. The ironical turning point reveals than the self-perception as an illusion, fear as cheap propaganda. Apparently naive, the masks do amuse but also astoun and advise at the same time. David Krepfles works are critical self-reflections as well as appraisal of the crisis of the American Dream. The universality of the icon disputes also the non american viewer: It could be a global problem.