Alexander Gutke Auto-scope

Alexander Gutke showed new and recent works that continue his ongoing investigation into a whole host of issues, ranging from narrative self-reflexivity, analog apparatuses, measurement, and perhaps what can be best described as a metaphysical existentialism. Many works reflect Gutke’s intense engagement with the medium of film. The motif of the loop, an endless return, is a key element of this, playing an important role for the artist both as a sculptural arrangement as well as within the film, video and 16-mm projections shown. This is underlined by Measure, a copper tape measure presented as a Möbius strip, another concept of an ongoing movement, without beginning or end.

The exhibition featured a 16mm film installation, a video, a sculptural installation, a wall sculpture, and a series of photographs. Auto-scope (2012) is a 16mm film that depicts a looped voyage inside a projector and outside into an open, snowy landscape, all as if in an allegory of reincarnation.

Text: Swedish-English