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On that which remains
March 2
to April 20, 2008
James Aldridge / Holmer Feldmann / Rachel
Goodyear / Falk Haberkorn / Jeon Joonho /
Elena Loukianova / David A. Parker / Kei Takemura /
Rebecca Wilton / Haegue Yang
Opening Saturday, March 1, 5 to 8 pm
ccurated by Elke Gruhn und Katharina Klara Jung
What remains when things disappear? Memory knows
more than we do ourselves, it is creative, not
restricted to simple impulse and data but processing
and saving information along with their meaning
which surges from communication with all senses and
is interpreted through our feelings.
Memories don't always come from experiences but also
from books, movies, stories of others... What
remains? Tales, traces, echoes, shadows and
sometimes, something new...
The large sale paper cuts CREEPING DEATH and DARK
LAKE by James Aldridge lure the spectator into an
eerie dream world. His bizarrely beautiful
landscapes with birds, flowers and smoking skulls
are made intuitively and without prior planning
during the process of cutting. The motives surge
from memories of heavy metal record covers and
intense studies of nature. By cutting away the
negative form, the process becomes inversed drawing;
what is left is form, motive and space.
DER BRIEFRAUM (the letter room) Holmer Feldmann calls his conceptual work in which he plans to paint
a letter for every day of the 20th century. Out of a
growing archive of unknown persons’ private
correspondences, he works on single sequences of
this time period. The meticulously detailed
paintings that repeat every water stain and inkblot
preserve and transport a part of the writers’ and
the addressees’ / owners’ personal history and
thoughts. The content’s intimacy counteracts the
sublimeness with which the documents are charged by
their translation into painting; by turning it into
a painterly motif, what is written seems to change
from personal memory into historic document.
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