VAN HORN ZEIGT EVA BERENDES THE NEAR SERENDIPITOUS ENCOUNTER
7 Juni bis 20 Juli 2013 Eröffnung Freitag 7 Juni, 19 - 21 Uhr
Wir freuen uns auf die erste Einzelausstellung von Eva Berendes bei VAN HORN.
Großformartige Gitterflächen, bestückt mit alltäglichen Objekten wie Gebrauchsgegenständen, Rohmaterialien und fließenden Stoffen - alles Fundstücke, die innerhalb einer neuen Anordnung ihre eigentliche Funktion verlieren und zueinander in Beziehung treten.
Was zunächst spontan arrangiert erscheint, unterliegt präzisen Überlegungen: Berendes lässt klare Prinzipien von Auswahl und Anordnung der Bildelemente erkennen, wenn sie konsequent zwischen Transparenz und Opazität, zwischen starren und weich fallenden Materialien changiert. So wird die Materialwahl zur Erweiterung des gestaltenden Vorgangs und die Anordnung der Gegenstände zu einem Balanceakt, bei dem jedes neu hinzugefügte Objekt den Eindruck des gesamten Gefüges verändert.
Die Künstlerin verweist mit den ausgewählten Bildelementen und den geometrischen Formen auf malerische Traditionen und auf die Bildsprache ungegenständlicher Kunst. Die handgeschweißten Gitter bieten ihr in ihrer Zweidimensionalität unendlich viele Möglichkeiten künstlerischer Anordnungen und stellen in ihrer Neutralität eine Arena dar, in der sich das Bild ereignet. Berendes' Grids bewegen sich an der Grenze von zwei- und dreidimensionalem Objekt - sie nehmen realen Raum ein, bleiben aber gleichzeitig stets auch Bild.
Parallel eröffnen in Flingern die Galerien Conrads, Cosar HMT und Petra Rinck
VAN HORN PRESENTS EVA BERENDES THE NEAR SERENDIPITOUS ENCOUNTER
June 7 to July 20, 2013 Opening Friday June 7, 7 - 9 pm
We're looking forward to the first solo-exhibition by Eva Berendes at VAN HORN.
Large-format grid surfaces assembled with common items such as everyday objects, raw materials and flowing fabrics - they are all found objects which lose their actual function within their new array and enter into relationships with each other.
What seems spontaneously arranged at first, involves comprehensive considerations: it is apparent that the artist follows specific principals in terms of selection and assembly when she consequently shifts between transparency and opacity, between static and smoothly falling materials. Accordingly, the choice of materials becomes an extension of the compositional process and the configuration of the objects constitutes a balancing act, in which every newly added item influences the impression of the whole framework.
The selected elements and the geometrical shapes eventually refer concretely to painterly traditions and to the imagery of non-representational art. Within their two-dimensionality, the hand welded grids provide virtually infinite possibilities for the artistic arrangements; and due to their neutrality, they become an arena, in which the image can take place. Berendes' Grids are situated along the boundary between two- and three-dimensional objects - they take up real space, but simultaneoulsy, they always remain an image.
Parallel opening in Flingern are the galleries Conrads, Cosar HMT und Petra Rinck
Icelandic nature is prominent in Eliasson's work, and his artistic relationship with it often involves collection or documentation that is scientific in tone. The country becomes a sensory laboratory where ideas can be developed and evolved into art, as evidenced in the multiple photographic series that would seem to witness a near compulsive need for collecting.
TAKA ISHII GALLERY, Tokyo presents NOBUYOSHI ARAKI - EroReal
7 June - 27 July 2013
Magazine pin-ups aren't interesting, are they? Especially now that they're shot digitally, they lack eroticism. They're doing it wrong. That's why I had to come in. It's not about an ambiance or concept; it's about being real. Not realism, but real?ero-real. I have to say it straight. It's not about nudity; clothed subjects can be erotic.
The approach, London presents JACK LAVENDER - Dreams Chunky
6 June - 28 July 2013
Jack Lavender draws from a world of mass-produced objects, transforming their singular banality through their composition within such structures as grids and metal armatures. Sitting between the disciplines of painting, sculpture and collage, Lavender brings different elements together to create a new entity.
