On the occasion of his current exhibition "In Point of Fact" and the launch of the accompanying booklet Icelandic artist Darri Lorenzen (*1978) gives a performance together with sound artist BJ Nilsen at Krome Gallery.

The booklet has been produced in collaboration with curator and writer Kathrin Meyer (THE OFFICE Berlin, Kestnergesellschaft Hannover) and graphic designer John McCusker (Vaguely Contemporary, Berlin). Both its texts and visual design will reflect Darri Lorenzen’s artistic approach and dealings with space. The performance in turn responds to the booklet by auditory means.
Krome Gallery presents „In Point of Fact“, a site-performative exhibition by Icelandic artist Darri Lorenzen.

He turns the exhibition space into a real and at the same time virtual pro-tagonist by means of subtle interventions into its architecture beside trans-forming it wihin a three dimensional simulation generated by the computer.

In the center of the (real) space stands a wooden, antique vitrine socket deriving from the inventory of the adjacent former Karl-Marx-bookstore. This display object becomes both the projection screen (of an absent art object) and the animated actor within the computer simulation – in addi-tion to further personnel gradually made up by the visitors during the time of the exhibition. The visitor is thus becoming a part of an interplay of shifting and overlapping perceptions of space, time and body.

IN POINT OF FACT pdf

Booklet info

EDITED BY
Kathrin Meyer for
Krome Gallery
All text by Kathrin Meyer,
Seeing It conceived by
Darri Lorenzen and
Kathrin Meyer

COPYEDITING
Tim Saltarelli
TRANSLATION
Allison Plath-Moseley
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Sara Hartman, John McCusker

3D RENDERING
Timur Siqin

CONTRIBUTORS — Seeing It
Benedict Andrews
Oddny Eir Ævarsdóttir
Margrét H. Blöndal
Carson Chan
Rubén Grilo
Elín Hansdóttir
Joel Holmberg
Matt Keegan
Stephen Lichty
Andri Snær Magnusson
Björn Quiring
Tim Saltarelli
Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir

PRINTING
Brandenburgische
Universitätsdruckerei
und Verlagsgesellschaft
Potsdam MBH

Darri Lorenzen thanks:
Gregor Hose
Michael Krome
BJ Nilsen
Timur Siqin

Cover image:
Pedestal for the display
of a bust of Karl Marx,
taken from the Karl-Marx-
Buchhandlung.

Inside cover:
Installation photo by
Darri Lorenzen.

Center spread:
C-print of 3D rendering of
gallery installation.

Copyright 2010 by
Krome Gallery and
the authors

PUBLISHED BY
Krome Gallery