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Galerie Anita Beckers presents SIBYLLE SPRINGER & LIAT YOSSIFOR �HIDDEN� | EIKE "ALTERATION" Archive | Information & News |
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SIBYLLE SPRINGER & LIAT YOSSIFOR “HIDDEN” November 15th 2013 - January 25th 2014 EVENTS 14. November at 6.30 pm: Artist Talk between Sibylle Springer, Liat Yossifor and Ludwig Seyfarth at Galerie Anita Beckers The exhibition "Hidden" features two women painters whose paintings capture a delicate balance between the visible and the concealed. Yet, it is the latter that is more salient because these paintings deal with moving images at different levels. On one hand, the painting process turns the complex structure directly into a visible result; on the other, it concerns the picturesque implementation of often brief, lightning-like motion moments not easily discerned by a single glance. In the work of Israeli-born Los Angeles-resident Liat Yossifor, both levels come together. She puts it in this way: “My gray paintings are the result of continuous action, where gestures become done and undone in a moment of time. I do this by working on a painting in one session in order to accelerate the improvisational aspect of painting, until one thick layer of oil gets fixed. The representational black lines are covered with gray. This approach is repeated several times during the development of a painting. The endless possibilities of the lines drawn and edited by knife work destabilize any fixed idea, image, or symbol. This destabilization also lays in the inner relationship between body and abstraction. Painting as performance is an attempt to overcome the fixity of representation”. Liat Yossifor’s approach undermines not only the traditional distinction between representation and abstraction, but also the contrast between surface and depth. Everything happens in the surface of the painting, as it charges in a complex manner and becomes the stage of multifaceted operations. This also applies to the works of Bremen-resident Sibylle Springer. While Liat Yossifor’s physical movements during the act of painting superimpose the represented and bring it almost to disappearance, Sibylle Springer observes the fleeting passing or appearing of images and situations, and then translates them into complex textures of different layers of lines. These form a veil over the eyes, as if it were heavy rain or fog. It is the intangible roads and traffic that permeates the world of today, as if seen through the sharpened eyes of the Impressionists. As Gregor Jansen once put it, in Sibylle Springer’s works, "all hell breaks loose." At the same time, a feeling of floating and easiness that the artist herself compares to the ascension of an airplane: "You still have the feeling of an earthly bond in your body, although one has already taken off from the soil”. (Text: Ludwig Seyfarth) EIKE "ALTERATION" November 15th 2013 - January 25th 2014 The exhibition "Alteration" shows three video works by the German artist Eike that have been created during his stay in Hungary. The exhibition title refers to the common character of his work, to the changes that go through all image motives. The focus of his videos, installations, computer and light art works depict mostly border areas and transitions: time and space, reality and abstraction. Eike is particularly interested here in the relationship between physical and virtual experiences, as in "Golden Cage" and "After Laika". In the light of this investigation the question is then, what influence the virtual representation of the world and its media presentation has upon our experience. Eike’s artistic work operates a basic research and develops structures of this experience in an experimental way. One of these basic structures is the experience of space, as shown on the video installation ‘Alteration’. It shows floor projections of stone surfaces that fall steadily. They blur in the depth, while repeatedly forming new black spots in the surface and connecting to new structures. For the viewer, the video image gains an in-depth spatial dimension. He gets the impression that he is being pulled under his feet. "Golden Cage" shows the artist performing dance movements in a black picture frame. His body remains in contact with the frame, and changes according to his movements. In the video "After Laika" two dogs explore virtual space. Both works allow us to recognize the autonomy of the virtual image against the physical reality. This creates a stunning image of subjective space, alienating the viewer and contradicting his physical experience. All spatial information is transferred into the virtual space in a way that is foreign to the human sensory organs. (Text: Eike) Galerie Anita Beckers Frankenallee 74 60327 Frankfurt am Main Telefon 069-739009-67 Telefax 069-739009-68 E-Mail: [email protected] |
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