Stefan Saffer, Atomic Opera (in two acts), 2006, gouache, tape, color pencil, marker on cardboard, 5 levels, framed, 65 x 48 x 6 cm
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the
space between
Elena Bajo (ESP), Maria Hedlund (S), Katie
Holten (IRL), Stefan Saffer (D),
Alexis Marguerite Teplin (US) & Keith Wilson (UK)
OPENING
10.11.2006, 6pm
11.11.2006
- 20.01.2007
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the
space between refers to the non-specific ambiguity that exists
in the art experience in
the physical space, a moment in time, an understanding, or an interpretation.
Foucault’s view that spaces are “informed by transgression” and
the viewer has a relationship to a work of art from one's own perspective
and each gaze of a viewer illuminates a different interpretation
and aesthetic understanding of art, thus creating infinite views.
It is about relationships between one element and another either
physical, psychological, historical, or narrative influences. Each
artist in the exhibition addresses these relationships with their
chosen medium from painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and
installation.
Elena Bajo considers herself a “social sculptor” collecting
and restructuring elements from urban life, arranging and transforming
them according to her own aesthetic understanding. She says, “I
am interested in the space between sender and receptor, in the circulation
of messages, in the space of information de-coding, in the space
between words”. Katie Holten as a “cultural filter” describes
herself as a “compulsive wanderer, adventurer, and gatherer.” Allowing
her work to take on many different forms as she preserves her “findings”.
She has developed a unique language which combines memory and reflection
for the individual interpretation of data.
In the meticulous photographs of everyday objects Maria Hedlund isolates
an image from its context. The viewer becomes sensitized to observe
small peculiarities making the familiar objectified. Hedlund’s
work plays with slowing down one’s observational approach and
helps to make comparisons between objects. There is also an eerie
quality in her work; there is no record or trace of human contact
yet with the empty space one senses interaction. Cutting away and
layering imagery are the techniques Stefan Saffer incorporates in
his paper-cuts, hanging mobiles or paintings. While removing part
of an image Saffer is conscious that he is creating new relations
between the remaining spaces. There are formal artistic decisions
made in the process and it is important that there be a play between
the cut outs and the whole composition.
The assemblage installations of Alex Marguerite Teplin often combines
multiple elements which she has altered, to suggest a range from
feminine aesthetic to echoes of early Romanticism in art. Teplin
is exploring a layering of signifiers in her work from different
time periods to fashion, materials, social commentary and painting
style, all modes offering opportunity for interpretation. Keith Wilson’s
sculptures as well are assemblage of ready-made objects that create
new narratives though his work can be considered to be located between
the abstract image and epic storytelling. Wilson states, “I
make chameleon-like sculptures that alter their meaning according
to the context they are shown in. This kind of work requires a particular
interpretative flexibility….”
the space between is an investigation of how the artist breaks down
the barrier of space between the viewer and the viewed and how the
artist mediates the moment in time when this experience seizes to
exist. The intention of the exhibition is to look for art practices
and artworks, which are dealing with “the between”, the
indefinite view of interpretative space.
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