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[25. september
2002]
pressemeddelelse
Zilla Leutenegger &
Gabriele Basch
in colaboration with Gallery Kamm
at Art Forum Berlin
- Pavel Pepperstein's "political hallucinations" & new
works by Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek will be on show in the gallery
Kamm
Zilla Leutenegger & Gabriele Basch
Art Forum Berlin
26 - 30. september 2002
www.art-forum-berlin.com/
Pavel Pepperstein/Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek
7. september - 19. oktober 2002
Galerie Kamm
Almstadtstrasse 5
D-10119 Berlin
T/F +49 (0)30 28386464
Open Wed - Fri 1 - 7 pm, Sat 1 - 6 pm
www.art-exchange-berlin.de/kamm
It is our pleasure to invite you to the Artforum Berlin
2002, at which the gallery presents "in an hour of a girl, there
are only 50 minutes", a solo exhibition specially conceived for
the art fair by Zilla Leutenegger.
Utilising photography, video and drawing, Zilla Leutenegger creates
a portrait that reveals the artist and her world. In her work, the
individual elements from differing media do not appear as different
faces of the same person, rather they conflate to an intensification
of the "self" - like a puzzle in which an image appears when its
individual pieces are brought together.
The pieces of the puzzle are short sequences or fleeting situations
that cite the the everyday or childhood memories. In a video the
artist stands in front of the camera and blows a bubble from bubble
gum until it bursts. Beside this there is a drawing in which she
sits, immersed in thought, on the starting blocks for a sports event.
It's the starting position No. 1, next to it No. 2 and No. 3 are
visible. A photograph shows Zilla from above, as a component of
a stretcher and pillow arrangement, taken by the artist herself
out of curiousity how does her world appear if it is observed from
the outside? In the same mirror in which Zilla Leutenegger glimpses
herself, the observer is also revealed - and Zilla Leutenegger becomes
the figure Zilla, who makes a world of inner images visible.
In the Company Lounge at ART FORUM BERLIN, Gabriele Basch
is showing her installation "Block", consisting of wall covering
segments of alternately paper cuts and mirrors. At first glance,
the room obtains a rhythm, which, however, decomposes due to the
multiple reflections. This phenomenon reoccurs within the paper
cuts: whereas the upper parts are clearly relating to nature images,
the lower parts are at the beginning mirroring the upper motives,
but downwards increasingly dissolving into abstract gestures of
lines. Simultaneously, the shadows thrown by the black and neon
green paper cuts, causes a blur, which transfers the graphical procedure
into that of a picturesque. Gabriele Basch takes the visual language
of the mass media, deconstruncts and rearranges it in a new visual
context, a context which goes beyond the individual works to define
the whole Company Lounge as an intersection of real and media space.
In the gallery, Pavel Pepperstein's exhibition "political
hallucinations" will be on show, and new works by Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek
will be presented in the office.
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