PRESS INFORMATION
Graz, Oktober 25th 2008
BERNHARD HAMMER 
Under the title „Mass“ the gallery artepari shows new works of the artist Bernhard Hammer.

MASSE
The art historian Werner Hofmann generally calls the artwork a mirror of its observers. This, no doubt, applies to Bernhard Hammer’s works in multiple respects: against the background of the individual knowledge about the discussion of the phenomenon “crowds” in philosophy, sociology, history, literature and last but not least the visual arts, the dialectic questioning of the artwork about the individual mental state in society should accord to a hardly repressable process. It’s needless to mention that the relation between the individual and the mass, between single and multiple, defines daily life.
Beyond that archetype of human consciousness, Bernhard Hammer also carries out a continuing sequence of the graphic illustration to the abstraction and furthermore to an area of the monochrome, from the depiction of space to the flat, within his work cycle. In this exhibition, Hammer reveals his way of working by also showing the plastic models, which become the image content for his C print enhanced photos.

Bernhard Hammer

• Born in 1961 in Stainz
• Apprenticeship of locksmith, apprenticeship of carpenter
• Master school of interior design and furniture design, Ortweinschule Graz
• Master class for stage design, University of music and performing art, Graz
• Co-operation at different architecture projects
• Stage settings at leading theatres in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands
• Photographic works

Exhibition dates
Bernhard Hammer 
Exhibition title 
Masse
Press conference

October 25th 2008, 16 o'clock
artepari, gallery for contemporary art
Peter-Tunner-Gasse 60
8020 Graz, Austria
Preview
October 25th 2008, 17 o'clock, opening by Wenzel Mraček
Length of exhibition
27th of october to 5th of december 2008
Location of exhibition 
artepari gallery
Peter-Tunner-Gasse 60
8020 Graz, Austria
Artworks on display 
Photo works, objects
Contact and information
artepari, gallery for contemporary art 

Peter-Tunner-Gasse 60
8020 Graz, Austria
Phone: +43(0)316/89 00 92
Mobile: +43(0)676/519 00 66
E-Mail: office@artepari.com
Internet: www.artepari.com 
Opening hours: Monday through Friday from 14 to 17 o'clock