11/10/05 Atelier Augarten, Vienna Déjà vu The Moment of Belatedness in Contemporary Art 20 October 2005 - 26 February 2006 Curated by Thomas: Trummer Assistant Curator: Roswitha Bittner Atelier Augarten Center for Contemporary Art Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Scherzergasse 1a 1020 Vienna, Austria http://www.atelier-augarten.at http://www.belvedere.at Tuesday-Sunday, 10am - 6pm Information public@belvedere.at http://www.belvedere.at T +43/1/79 557-134 F -136 Anna Gaskell - Isabell Heimerdinger - Constantin Luser - Jan Mancuska - Martina Steckholzer - David Thorpe - Clemens von Wedemeyer Who does not know that illusion of feeling that you have experienced a completely new situation before? The moment of clear-sightedness only lasts fractions of seconds but leaves behind a powerful and unnerving impression. The tenses seem to merge together and future and past overlap. It is not only that we become aware of a seemingly past experience but we also gain the sense that we have seen into the future."Déjà vu" is a subject well suited to art. Film is an especially good medium to vividly translate the sense of replay in "déjà vu" and can effectively convey the sensation of memory tricks. Pictures also provide a good opportunity to express this phenomenon. In contrast to "déjà vu", the reproducible picture captures a fleeting moment from the present and thus records a past happening. These synchronisations of past and present, presence and absence, seeing and remembering, and surprise and recognition are characteristics not only of "déjà vu" but also of reproducible i mages. The exhibition will draw together positions exclusively from contemporary art. A catalogue of 204 pages will be published by Schlebruegge, Vienna in conjunction with the exhibition with a comprehensive catalogue of full colour images and texts by Henri Bergson, Heike Maier, Gerhard Neumann, Peter Krapp, Beat Wyss and Thomas Trummer. Atelier Augarten Center for Contemporary Art Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Scherzergasse 1a 1020 Vienna, Austria http://www.atelier-augarten.at http://www.belvedere.at Opening Hours Tuesday-Sunday, 10am - 6pm Closed on Mondays, closed 24 and 25 December Information public@belvedere.at http://www.belvedere.at T +43/1/79 557-134 F -136 press info presse@belvedere.at T +43/1/79 557-113 F -130 Klaus Pokorny Head of PR/Marketing Dept. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Austrian Gallery Belvedere) Academic Institution under Public Law Prinz Eugen-Str. 27 A-1030 Vienna T +43/79 557-178 F -130 M +43/664/3838 91 14 E pokorny@belvedere.at H www.belvedere.at email to a friend  contact  subscribe electronic flux corporation / www.e-flux.com 295 greenwich street #532, nyc ny 10007 to unsubscribe click / here