Acht Arbeiten/ Eight Works at Dortmunder Kunstverein, Germany supported by Kunststiftung NRW, RWE Stiftung publication by GreenBox, Berlin

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1 Acht Arbeiten/ Eight Works at Dortmunder Kunstverein, Germany supported by Kunststiftung NRW, RWE Stiftung publication by GreenBox, Berlin 18 June to 8 August 2010

2 Tales (Akropolis, Athens, Greece, February 2009), 2010 Two Photographs, 25 x 20 cm, framed

3 Acht Arbeiten/ Eight Works at Dortmunder Kunstverein, Germany 18 June to 8 August 2010 The Dortmunder Kunstverein is pleased to announce the exhibition Acht Arbeiten/ Eight Works by Daniel Gustav Cramer (born 1975). This is Cramer s first solo exhibition in an institutional exhibition space in Germany. For the Dortmunder Kunstverein Daniel will continue his recent exhibition series of Arbeiten/ Works, groupings of individual works as fragments, which propose a picture of a world as a space of invisible links and connections. A photograph of the Eusebius Jerome Manuscript, the oldest book stored in the celars of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, forms the centre of the exhibition.this manuscript is the first detailed chronology of the history of mankind describing various accounts of time from the Greek Olympiads, to the regal years of roman emperors counting in yearly cycles, reaching from Adam and Eve to about A.D. 378, the year of the release of the Manuscript. On the photograph the book is placed flat on a table, closed, lid by natural light falling through a window nearby. History, complete, yet inaccesible. A compilation of individuals who disappeared one by one in the stream of everything. This double withdrawal, a closed book - photographed, a peak of inaccesibility, opens up another relation to the shown object and its attempt to capture the time of history. Further more, the obscured content of this book is a structure of facts, numbers creating fiction. On a found photograph taken by a NASA photographer from a helicopter, crowds of people are gathering at Kennedy Space Center in the summer of The photograph was taken adjescent to the first manned lunar landing mission of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. The black and white image shows a field covered with vans, tents and people. The size of an individual person between the cars suggests the magnificent distance lying ahead of the astronauts. Reinhold Messner, the first mountain climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest without using oxygen stated: If one of us climbes the highest mountain, all of us, humankind did it. In Summer 2009 Daniel flew to the Wolfe Creek Crater in Australia s desert to document it during sunset. The plane circled around the crater over and over again. In the video the crater s appearance establishes an eliptic shape in constant motion nothing in the image is still except the composition itself. The crater moves in full circle, like the hand of a clock and the earth s journey around the sun. In Cramer s work, everything relates: a minute fragment, the gesture of a hand, a planet moving through space. The works feel like reminders or markers bringing touching simple questions relating to existence and being: who am I? How do I relate to you, the other, the world surrounding me? What kind of time is caught in a trace about to vanish? Daniel Gustav Cramer studied at the Royal College of Art, London and has recently returned from a residency at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford in collaboration with the VCA, Melbourne. He took part in the Athens Biennale. Recently his work has been shown at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, BolteLang, Zurich, Kimmerich Gallery, New York, Athens Biennale, Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, The Return, Dublin, Vera Cortes, Lisbon, An artist book will be published by The Green Box, Berlin, generosly supported by the Kunststiftung NRW, Goethe Institute Dublin and Stiftung RWE.

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5 Untitled (Colour), 2009 Book, 28 x 20.5 cm 48 coloured and several white pages

6 Sculpture I, 2009 Metal, iron ball, 41 x 41 x 40 cm

7 Untitled, 1969 Photograph, 20 x 25.5 cm Photograph taken by NASA showing crowds gathering adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, in Florida to watch the launch of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Corris and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. on the first manned lunar landing mission on July 16, 1969.

8 Tales (Estoril, Portugal, September 2008), 2009 Two Photographs, 25 x 20 cm, framed

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10 Untitled (Eusebius Jerome), 2009 C-print, 71 x 61 cm The oldest non-biblical Latin manuscript in Great Britain, a manuscript of St. Jerome s Latin translation and adaptation of the Greek chronicle of Eusebius, bishop of Ceasarea, describing the history of mankind starting with Adam and Eve until A.D. 378, with supplements added by other writers, the final appendage in A.D The chronicle constructs a time line comparing parallel historical records from the first year of Abraham to the twentieth of Jerome s own emperor Constantine (A.D. 326), linking the Macedonian king-lists and Greek Olympiads with the regnal years of Roman emperors.

11 Untitled (New Zealand), x 10 x 15 cm, found postcards

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13 Untitled (Niagara Falls), 1937 Photograph, 11.4 x 8.4 cm taken at Goat Island by Gustav Cramer

14 Untitled (Six Sculptures), 2010 C-prints, each 42 x 32 cm from a group of twelve

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16 Untitled, 2010 C-print, 59 x 45 cm, framed

17 Objects, 2010 Book, 12 x 10 cm Objects contains descriptions of all planets, asteroids, moons, etc circling around the sun, listed according to their distance. The descriptions include densities, materials, time of orbit, atmosphere, etc.

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19 Tales (Perama, Greece, August 2009), 2010 C-print, 20.2 x 25.5 cm

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21 Untitled (Paperwork I), 2008 C-print, 61 x 50.8 cm group of eight photographs

22 Numbers, 2007 Book, cover found fabric, 21 x 15.5 cm Consisting of all integral numbers from One to Ninety-Nine, in their logical sequence, each number printed on a (right) page.

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25 2010 Daniel Gustav Cramer