At July 13th, 2006 we will open the exhibitions
(press release)
Groundfloor
In the exhibition „Byby“ we are showing new ink on paper works as well as oil painting of the German artist SIMON PASIEKA.
A naked girl lies on the grass; a mound of sand seems to quasi grow out of her rips, her head encased in a crystall ball. Apparently commited to this voyeuristic situation, she still turns her head faithfully to a white cloth behind which three persons perform shadow dances. A mystical light falls on both sides of the cloth onto the brushes surrounding the scene.
The juveniles, who unite themselves in Simon Pasiekas pictorical landscapes in diverse natural sceneries , seem to secede for a moment from the civilising constraints structuring their every-day lives. They gather to practice their small rituals and trust – so it seems – therewith to find answers to their questions.
References to the men-nature-relationship in romanticism seem apparent; but in Simon Pasiekas works nature remains, in contrast to the romantic conjuration of nature, just a background in a game, whose developing is conducted by the juvenile protagonists themselves. The objects they use like glass and mirrors do not just remain metaphorical accessoires, but function as tools in that game of fragmentation and recreation of the childish self; a game that – in the course of perception – also adopts unexpected menacing traits.
Videospace
In our videospace as well as our new project space SATELLIT in the center of Frankfurt we present videoworks of the Russian artist VICTOR ALIMPIEV in the exhibition „The wind doesn’t blow over the parquet“.
In his videoworks VICTOR ALIMPIEV combines elements of diverse artistic genres like painting, theatre, dance and music in the moving image. The human „material“ that seldom performs as individuals but mostly as a group of people in Alimpiev works, becomes a mouldable „mass“ formed to a living sculpture, which reacts to its surrounding space. The movements of the mass in the space are defined by the repetition of monotone gestures, whose function seems familiar, but is subordinated to the dramaturgy of the moving image and are isolated from its context.
„What is important is that the immobility of a sculpture is a tense immobility, the ‚eternal moment‘ of the sculpture – something slightly stretched, like trembling. For example, lyrical trembling, trembling before discomfort.“ (Alimpiev)
The sound, be it in form of music oder the spoken word, has a decisive signification for the rhythm of this tense immobility.
So in the work „Nightingale“ (2005) the crowd of people seems to follow silent stage direction and therewith to abscond from the suck of Mahlers symphonie resounding out of the background.
In „What is this place called?“ (2006) it is the language, performed as a monotone sprechgesang and the significance of the word, which forms and places a group of 15 people in the space to a sculptural element. By encircling the group with the cameras and frozening single gestures in close-ups, there is achieved a level of merger of body and lanuage, which the theatre is denied because its impossibility of concurrency.
Even in „Sommerlightning“ (2004) image and movement undergo a symbiosis. School kids thump with their fingers on school banks or lay their hands – without the motivation getting apparent – with the palms opened on top of the table, to - little later - continue with the thumping. The menacing sound of the thumping is disrupted by the helpless gesture of the opened kids hands, so that the childish action seems to be a direct translation of the temper transmitted in the documentation of the natural phenomena of sommerlightnings which are superimposed to the video in irregular intervals.
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The start of the gallery season will be held on September 8th,2006 with an exhibition of the Swiss media artist YVES NETZHAMMER. He will show new video works as well as video installations.
We will open an exhibition with the fashion label PONICANOVA / COLLENBERG at September 9th, 2006 in our new project space SATELLIT.
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