I Cannot Repeat What I Hear

Thanks to the good people at Art Agenda, we just found out about Natalie Czech's current exhibition "I Cannot Repeat What I Hear" at Berlin's Capitain Petzel Gallery - and their description sounds simply a-ma-zing: "In her ‘Poems by Repetition’ series located in the gallery’s main space, Czech uses LP record sleeves, magazine articles, instruction manuals, and dictionary entries—or more precisely, the letters imprinted on them—as raw material for the creation of poetic sequences displayed across thirteen groups of framed color photographs. Within these easily identifiable texts from popular culture, Czech parses out the poems of Bruce Andrews, Gregory Corso, Hart Crane, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Bruce Hainley, Yunte Huang, Aram Saroyan, Gertrude Stein, and Emmett Williams by eliminating all extraneous words, so that only the poem remains. However, because these texts are enlarged in photographs, they no longer conform to the medium of its delivery in the way that we experience them in everyday life—as pages of a book, LP liner notes, iPad interfaces, and words on Kindle screens—but rather as a photographic copy." (rnk)