Incremental Abstractions - Galerie Nord / Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Opening: 24.01.20 20, 7 pm
Duration: 24. 01. – 07. 03 2020
Participating artists: Jaakov Blumas, Pedro Boese, Katrin Bremermann, Martim Brion, Ilona Kálnoky, Michaela Zimmer
Welcome and introduction: Veronika Witte, Artistic Director, and Dr. Jens-Ole Rey
The exhibition Incremental Abstractions presents contemporary non-representational ways of seeing and working in sculpture, painting, graphic art and photography. Based on six exemplary positions from Berlin and Hamburg, possibilities of artistic localization in the field of tension of non-objective art are shown. It reflects on the development of her visual language through the continuation, supplementation and linking of certain traditional lines, her handling of the primacy of the material, her focus on color and form, the absence and presence of the gesture and the legibility of the process, as well as questions of reduction, repetition and seriality.
Katrin Bremermann's finely balanced colored pictorial bodies on unprimed “shaped canvases”, i.e. canvases that suspend the classic rectangular form, reflect questions of pictorial space and the picture in space. They subtly question the relationship between figure and ground, creating a surprising pictorial spatiality.
Martim Brion's sculptures made of industrially painted geometric shapes and his digitally modeled photographs of the surfaces of everyday objects explore synergy effects between sculpture and photography on the basis of specific optical, material and media qualities.
Ilona Kálnoky shapes everyday and industrial materials into sculptures through seemingly casual actions and hand movements. The sculptural strategies of compression, compression and stretching, the processes of refinement, decomposition and decay as well as the human body play a central role in the abysmally humorous creation of form.
Michaela Zimmer combines intuitive gestures and physical actions with the visual language of abstraction and the power of the material in her large-format works made of layers of colored plastic film, packaging and adhesive tape and canvas.
In Pedro Boese's square, modular picture structures, the focus is on the relationship of colors, the property of the monochrome surface in relation to light, the permeability and opacity of the paint application. Reduced to elementary forms, he varies the spatial appearances and effects of line, form and color.
Jaakov Blumas' works are characterized by polychromatic lines that optically set the perception of the geometric forms they outline in motion. Located between sculpture and painting, their constellations in space are variable, whereby the recipient is virtually thematized as a co-creator.
This multifaceted exhibition provides an overview of current positions in non-representational art without attempting to take stock. However, it is linked to those concepts of contemporary art production that focus on color, material and gesture as objects.
moving abstractions, Screening "In between", 15. – 22. 01.20 20, 6 – 12 pm, in the showcase of Galerie windows
Incremental Abstractions, Artist Talk 12. 02.20 20, 7 pm
Jena 1800, the philosopher Peter Neumann reads from his book „Jena 1800“ and other texts, 26. 02. 2020, 7 pm
moving abstractions, filmscreening, 05. 03. 2020, 7 pm
Presse: Berliner Woche
Fotos: Thomas Bruns