Venue:Galerie Michel Rein
42 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
Michael Riedel (*1972) is an artist and author of numerous texts, which can better be sold as images, but above all provide for continuously new text material with which Riedel's artist's existence in the art industry can be visualised. In his new series of prints, he takes up the e-mail correspondence of the years 2oo4-2o17 with his New York gallery, preserved as .emlx files, which he has published uncut in the form of bank notes.
The 43 prints, in the common 5 to 5oo euro formats in an edition of 1o,ooo notes each, were created in 2o17 on the occasion of his exhibition at the Geldmuseum of the Deutsche Bundesbank, which made it possible to print them on original central bank paper. From then on, Riedel is busy getting rid of the money or making a great lot more money out of the lot of money - 45 million Riedels. The correspondence between the artist and the gallery, whose motivation was ultimately the sale of artworks, is offered as wallet editions (4,490.- excl. VAT) and at special cash machines the prints can be drawn by EC card without gallery involvement.* The cash machine is of course also for sale.
The impressive large-format prints of enlarged and patterned cut-outs of the banknote graphics, whose surface is refined with high-quality metallic-effect foils, are being shown at Galerie Michel Rein.
Riedel's interest lies primarily in the graphic (look) and, given the front and back of the banknotes, in the arrangement of the two-sided material into patterned surfaces of success (Patterned Pattern).
The accompanying narration Abstract** has been published by Spector Books. Abstract is the punchy summary of many years of email exchanges - with 43 illustrations of the bundles of money, taking into account the inflationary demand for illustrations of art works in art books. Hot foil stamped and re-edited (price on request).
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michaelriedel.net/riedels**Michael Riedel – Abstract (Spector Books, 2022)
