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COSAR HMT: ERIKA HOCK 'REHEARSAL' - 7 Sept 2012 to 12 Oct 2012 Current Exhibition |
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ERIKA HOCK
'REHEARSAL' 07.09.-12.10.2012 |
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ERIKA HOCK 'REHEARSAL' 07.09.-12.10.2012 Extract from a letter: Dear Federico, dear Liam, dear Michael,Only a few days remain to the opening; the work is still in progress. I often reflect on links and transitions, visible and invisible. [...] In reference to our last conversation an event occurred to me that I had witnessed almost 20 years ago at Manas airport in Kyrgyzstan. Shortly before our takeoff for Germany, a slight earthquake shook the airport of my native town. I watched the way the old, heavy, Soviet brass candelabras danced lightly back and forth. People didn’t panic; they remained standing and paused, watched, sorted themselves out again and reacted. This short and spontaneous performance of the architecture created the fleeting moment of a direct communication between the people and the objects in the room. This memory is further mixed with the thought that arose when some time ago I was reading Paul Valery’s “Epaulinos, or the Architect”. In his dialogue with Phaedrus, Valery’s Socrates differentiates between three types of architecture. He speaks of mute, speaking and singing architecture; the more ugly and awkward the architecture is, the more mute it is. It seems to me today as though the mute site from long ago had tried to resist this categorization and attempted to dance despite its clumsiness. The heavy concrete architecture, which likewise epitomizes liminality, had the wish for a new departure writ large; it afterwards demanded to be seen in another light. [...] I thank you all very much for your inspiration and your contributions to the exhibition and am happy for this mutual experience. [...]ErikaEntitled Rehearsal, Erika Hock’s first exhibition at Galerie Cosar HMT opens on September 7th and is, at the same time, this year’s gallery contribution to the DC Open weekend (7 to 9 September 2012). Erika Hock’s work “Baldachin” (brass, dyed silk, 2012) plays with the tradition of free-hanging, firmament-like roofs (e.g., London’s Crystal Palace at the 1851 World’s Fair). Baldachins are transient architectural structures; they define and ennoble a room with minimal means and usually mark special occasions. Hock takes up these situations and their ephemeral character by interweaving three time-based contributions from befriended artists into the exhibition. They all in different ways tell of processes, short-lived incidents and breakouts.Hock calls her floor objects “Faltungen” (folds) that can be revised with a few adjustments. They can be read as fictional models and studies in rearrangeable rooms for potential architecture and stand for movement and mutability. Common to all the objects is their unusual materiality, which at first represents a contrast to their prototype character. In the evaluation of design, fashion and architecture, we designate them as “qualitative and valuable” and in this context examine their workmanship under a magnifying glass. In this way a quiet promise of permanence and endurance is held against the mutability of the objects. Their presentation under the spotlight underscores their alleged designer and luxury character. By incorporating three contributions (a film script as an audio book, a performance, and a text), Erika Hock transforms the gallery room into a scenographic space and creates a place for narration. The exhibition title of “Rehearsal” thus stands for the processability of her own objects as well as for the experimental structure of the show. With contributions by Federico Acal, JL Murtaugh and Michael Strasser that arose in a close exchange between the single artists specifically for this exhibition.Erika Hock was, till 2009, a master student in the class of Rita McBride at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. In 2009 she was presented with the Audi Art Award, in 2010 the Nam June Paik Award for young talents in art media linked to an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bochum. In 2011 she mounted “Shifters” a solo exhibition at Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg and was nominated for the Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis; she will be seen in Kunstmuseum Bonn as of October 2012.Erika Hock lives and works in Ghent as a scholarship student at HISK – Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Belgium. COSAR HMT FLURSTRASSE 57 D - 40235 DÜSSELDORF T +49 211 329735 WWW.COSARHMT.COM Di - Fr: 11 - 13h und 15 - 18h, Sa: 12 - 15h sowie nach Vereinbarung I and by appointment |
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