PAVEL BÜCHLER
L’IMITATION
7 February – 21 March 2009
PREVIEW: Friday 6 February 2009, 6 - 9pm
BREAKFAST with the artist: Sunday 8 February, 11 – 12am
Pavel Büchler in conversation with Nick Crowe (artist based in Berlin, professor at Goldsmiths College, London)
Tanya Leighton Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Germany by Czech-born artist Pavel Büchler. ‘L’imitation’ is part of ‘Forum Expanded’ — a programme within the International Forum of New Cinema at the 59th International Film Festival of Berlin.
Summing up his own practice as ‘making nothing happen’, Pavel Büchler is committed to the catalytic nature of art - its potential to draw attention to the obvious and reveal it as strange. Formally presented in a variety of media with a bias towards obsolete technology, his works often reference modern art, literature, critical thought - and on this occasion specifically the cinema.
This exhibition is part of Forum expanded, a program of the 59th International Film Festival Berlin.
 Pavel Büchler ‘Limitation’, 2008 Ink on paper; 12 x 22 cm BÜCHLER-2009-0004 |  |  Pavel Büchler ‘Hot Air (Projet pour un idée)’, 2007 Slide projectors, screen, wooden stools, projected text and cigarette packet Dimensions variable BÜCHLER-2009-0001 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘After Joseph Kosuth, after Douglas Huebler, after Lawrence Weiner..., Artforum, Vol. 36, No. 3, 1997, page 16’, 2009 Watercolour on paper 76 x 55 cm BÜCHLER-2009-0003 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘After Joseph Kosuth, after Douglas Huebler, after Lawrence Weiner..., Artforum, Vol. 36, No. 3, 1997, page 16’, 2003-2009 Watercolour on wall Dimensions variable BÜCHLER-2009-0002 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘Small Eclipse’, 2009 Projector, meteorite Dimensions variable BÜCHLER-2009-0006 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘Bloom Stool’, 1973 Reflex horn loudspeaker, wooden stool, tape recorder Dimensions variable BÜCHLER-2009-0007 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘High Noon’, 2008 Video loop on 10"" studio monitor Dimensions variable Edition of 3 + 1 AP BÜCHLER-2009-0008 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘Acid & Nicotine (The French)’, 2009 Series of 7 drawings; Acid and cigarette heat on paper 38 x 28 cm (each) BÜCHLER-2009-0013 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘Work (All the cigarette breaks, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, February 2009’, 2009 Lambda print 57,2 x 152,4 cm BÜCHLER-2009-0010 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘The Idea Crossed My Mind and I Set to Work at Once (Second Version)’, 2009 Watercolour on paper 55 x 76 cm BÜCHLER-2009-0012 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘Self-effacing Object’, 2008 Found and framed magazine 29,7 x 21 cm BÜCHLER-2009-0011 | |  Pavel Büchler ‘Conversational Drawings 2’, 2008 7 drawings on carbonless copy paper 28 x 21.5 cm BÜCHLER-2009-0021 | |