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Galerie Rupert Pfab: Monica Ursina J�ger - Displace - 7 June 2013 to 20 July 2013 Current Exhibition |
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terrain vague.23, 2013
pencil and pigment transfer on paper 75 x 112 cm |
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Monica Ursina Jäger Displace June 07, 2013 - July 20, 2013 Galerie Rupert Pfab is pleased to present its second solo exhibition with new works by the Swiss artist Monica Ursina Jäger (*1974, Thalwil). Her recent series of large-scale drawings using India ink, pencil and pigment transfer on paper are titled “hideout” and “terrain vague” and deal with the connection between natural landscapes and urban architecture. The artist creates complex, futuristic and fantastical worlds of images, which in some cases appear to float in empty space. Rock, cloud and tree formations are collaged and combined with modern architectural elements from various simultaneous perspectives and complemented with intricately drawn details. The restrained color palette and the absence of human figures lend the works a somewhat menacing tranquility. It seems as though the drawings were providing a view onto a somber vision of the future. A “displace”, which exhorts the viewers to regard the way they deal with their own environment more critically, while at the same time advising them to reflect upon the visions, hopes and fears that emerge in connection with this environment. Monica Ursina Jäger’s drawings depict fragments of the most varied architectural models. “In the tradition of the eclecticism of architecture and landscape as seen in the works of certain 18th century painters, such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Hubert Robert,” she explains, “the drawings bring together representations of historical and contemporary buildings. Modernist structures and social housing are combined with private tree-houses, secret hovels and gardens. These motifs stand for both collective and subjective ambitions, visionary thinking and the failing of utopias. I see the series as a kind of graphic inventory against forgetting. Or, to put it another way: as an artistic archive for memory, daydreams and visionary thinking.” The title of the series “terrain vague” underscores these ideas, since it makes reference to the Spanish architect, historian and philosopher Ignasi de Solà-Morales (1952-2001), who coined the term to describe the sense of absence characteristic of contemporary cities. He spoke of abandoned, obsolete places, spaces or buildings, which no longer fulfill a particular purpose but should nevertheless by all means be maintained and valued. He called these sites “places of freedom” and contrasted them with the capitalist city. Monica Ursina Jäger studied at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore and Goldsmiths College in London. In 2007, she received the Swiss Art Award. This was followed by solo exhibitions in, among other places, the Kunstmuseum Thun (2008), the Raum für Kunst in Lucerne (2011) and the Forum Junge Kunst in Wolfsburg (2013), as well as by numerous group exhibitions, including Compilation IV in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2009. Monica Ursina Jäger lives and works in Zürich und London. exhibition opening on Friday, 7th June 2013, 7-9 pm the artist will be present |
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