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BLACK&WHITE
Holger Bär, Luciano Castelli, Tony Conway, Rainer
Fetting, Jörn Grothkopp, Xenia Hausner, Jay Mark Johnson, Lies Maculan, and
Sven Marquardt
17 February
through 14 April, 2018
Opening: Saturday, 17 February, 2018, 7–9 p.m.
Inspired by the powerfully spontaneous drawings by
Luciano Castelli on view this last November at the special exhibition ‚From
White to White‘ at the Kaufhaus Jandorf, as well as in the gallery show
‚Revolving Paintings‘, we will further explore the theme of black & white
with a group show: works by various artists represented by the gallery will
introduce different approaches to monochromatic representation in contemporary
art, and simultaneously draw a link to the very present medium of film during
the Berlinale Film Festival. Works of art by Holger Bär, Luciano Castelli, Tony
Conway, Rainer Fetting, Jörn Grothkopp, Xenia Hausner, Jay Mark Johnson, Lies
Maculan, and Sven Marquardt range across very different artistic media.
A particular focus will be on the overcoming of the
traditional opposition between the emphasis on form in drawing and the
foregrounding of color in painting. Gothkopp’s painterly approach, with cloudy
forms that seem to dissolve in thin air, are in suspenseful contrast to Bär’s
machine-painted images, where the forms grow out of clusters of a multitude of
individual set dots. Traditional black&white photography as represented in
Marquardt’s works, also forming the basis of Xenia Hausner’s paintings, meets Johnson’s
technically experimental time-line photography. Tony Conway’s multi media
images are also based on photography, with blurry forms growing out of stacked
layers of semitransparent plexiglas – just as Maculan’s experimental
photography-sculptures they are located somewhere in the transition between
two- and three-dimensional representation. A completely different spatial
effect is produced by Castelli’s Revolving Paintings, playing, as they do, with
various points of view and perspectives. The line-up is completed by sculptures
by Fetting, with their monochromatic, deeply fissured surfaces introducing
painterly-gestural expressivity directly into plastic form. Castelli’s
experimental video shown in the basement further extends the media represented
in the show to include that of film.
