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Nordenhake Berlin: OWL STRETCHING TIME - 20 May 2010 to 24 Apr 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Eddy Smith, Kopf, 1923
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OWL STRETCHING TIME March 20 - April 24, 2010 Opening, Friday March 19, 2010 MATTHEW BRANNON NICHOLAS BYRNE SARAH CROWNER ERIK DIETMAN LILI DUJOURIE JEAN FAUTRIER TAMAR HALPERN JOHANNA KANDL EVA L�FDAHL ELFRIEDE LOHSE-W�CHTLER MEUSER EDDY SMITH SAM WINDETT Connecting different geographical and historical positions, 'Owl Stretching Time' brings together artists who share an irreverent attitude toward the boundaries of the mediums and genres in which they work. The exhibition is comprised of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, collages and ceramics. These artists share a sensibility for extracting elements from their initial cultural context thus connecting sources that get culturally re-positioned through fantasy and desire. Their works tend to confound any clear identification or reduction to a single communicative meaning. Installed side-by-side, these relatively disparate works lay bare the continuities and rich cross-connections within their practices. The breadth of back-and-forth in the exhibition makes evident the artists' translation of subject and sensibility across mediums, cultures, and artistic eras, all seemingly directed by a playful ambiguity and a subtle sense of humor. The title of the exhibition refers to the 4th episode of the British TV series 'Monthy Python's Flying Circus, aired on BBC on October 26, 1969. The name was in origin a proposed name for the series itself. Starting with a gentle, guitar-strumming singer, the scene quickly changes to an art gallery, where the quality of masterpiece paintings is being judged by how they taste**. A witty and grotesque parody of how aesthetical values can be perceived and consumed. Opening: Friday March 19, 2010, 18.00-20.30 Exhibition period: March 20 - April 24, 2010 Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11.00 - 18.00. Installation views are available after the opening at www.nordenhake.com OWL STRETCHING TIME 20. M�rz - 24. April 2010 Er�ffnung, Freitag, 19. M�rz 2010 Die Ausstellung �Owl Stretching Time" f�hrt K�nstler unterschiedlicher zeitlicher und geographischer Kontexte zusammen, die einen respektlosen Umgang mit den Grenzen und Genres des Mediums pflegen, in denen sie arbeiten. Es sind Werke zu sehen, die im weitesten Sinne als Malereien, Zeichnungen, Photographien, Collagen und Keramiken bezeichnet werden k�nnen. Den K�nstler der Ausstellung ist ein Feingef�hl gemeinsam, Elemente aus ihren urspr�nglichen kulturellen Kontexten zu entheben und sie fantasie- und lustvoll zu verbinden, so da� sie eine Re-positionierung erfahren. Ihre Arbeiten neigen dazu, sich klaren Identifikationen oder Beschr�nkungen auf eine einzige Bedeutung zu entziehen. Die Gegen�berstellung der relativ disparaten Werke im Ausstellungsraum l��t Kontinuit�ten sowie mannigfaltige Querverbindungen zwischen den k�nstlerischen Praktiken hervortreten. Die F�lle an Referenzen zwischen den Arbeiten veranschaulicht wie die K�nstler Themen und Empfindsamkeiten �ber Medien, Kulturen und k�nstlerische Gebiete hinweg �bersetzen. Sie lassen sich dabei von spielerischer Mehrdeutigkeit und einem feinen Sinn f�r Humor leiten. Der Titel der Ausstellung geht auf die vierte Folge der britischen TV-Serie �Monthy Python's Flying Circus" zur�ck, die am 26. Oktober 1969 zum ersten Mal von der BBC ausgestrahlt wurde. �Owl Stretching Time" war urspr�nglich als Titel f�r die gesamt Serie gedacht. Die Folge beginnt mit einem Gitarre spielenden S�nger, geht aber schnell zur Szene in einer Kunstgalerie �ber, in der die Qualit�t der Meisterwerke der Malerei danach beurteilt wird, wie die Gem�lde schmecken.** - Eine geistreiche und groteske Parodie, wie �sthetische Werte wahrgenommen und verwertet werden k�nnen. Er�ffnung Freitag, 19. M�rz 2010, 18.00-20.30 Ausstellungsdauer: 20. M�rz - 24. April 2010 Installationsansichten sind nach der Er�ffnung unter www.nordenhake.com zu finden. F�r Pressebilder und weitere Informationen kontaktieren Sie bitte die Galerie. **Interior of art gallery. Two figures enter. They are both middle-aged working mothers. Each holds the hand of an unseen infant who is beneath the range of the camera. Janet: 'Allo, Marge! Marge: Oh hello, Janet, how are you love? Janet: Fancy seeing you! How's little Ralph? Marge: Oh, don't ask me! He's been nothing but trouble all morning. Stop it Ralph! (she slaps at unseen infant) Stop it! Janet: Same as my Kevin. Marge: Really? Janet: Nothing but trouble ... leave it alone! He's just been in the Florentine Room and smeared tomato ketchup all over Raphael's Baby Jesus. (shouting off sharply) Put that Baroque masterpiece down! Marge: Well, we've just come from the Courtauld and Ralph smashed every exhibit but one in the Danish Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition. Janet: Just like my Kevin. Show him an exhibition of early eighteenth-century Dresden Pottery and he goes berserk. No, I said no, and I meant no! (smacks unseen infant again) This morning we were viewing the early Flemish Masters of the Renaissance and Mannerist Schools, when he gets out his black aerosol and squirts Vermeer's Lady At A Window! Marge: Still it's not as bad as spitting is it? Janet: (firmly) No, well Kevin knows (slaps the infant) that if he spits at a painting I'll never take him to an exhibition again. Marge: Ralph used to spit - he could hit a Van Gogh at thirty yards. But he knows now it's wrong - don't you Ralph? (she looks down) Ralph! Stop it! Stop it! Stop chewing that Turner! You are ... (she disappears from shot) You are a naughty, naughty, vicious little boy. (smack; she comes back into shot holding a copy of Turner's Fighting Temeraire in a lovely gilt frame but all tattered) Oh, look at that! The Fighting Temeraire - ruined! What shall I do? Janet: (taking control) Now don't do a thing with it love, just put it in the bin over there. Marge: Really? Janet: Yes take my word for it, Marge. Kevin's eaten most of the early nineteenth-century British landscape artists, and I've learned not to worry. As a matter of fact, I feel a bit peckish myself. (she breaks a bit off the Turner) Yes... Marge: also tastes a bit. Marge: I never used to like Turner. Janet: (swallowing) No ... I don't know much about art, but I know what I like. |
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