PRESS
RELEASE
Over ~
5/4 – 26/5/2001
With the group show Over~,
Unlimited Contemporary Art celebrates the 5 years of the gallery and the
opening of the second floor as show room.
Over~ focuses on
painting and concludes a triptych of exhibitions, Beauty and the Beast/ sculpture (1997) and XxYxZ…The end of the line/ drawing (1998).
The evocative title refers to the gallery space and programmation
since 5 years as well as to the quality of painting itself, something that
covers in order to represent but also exists as a complete and autonomous
object directly connected to the space and the viewer.
The works are
related to interior and domestic elements with innovatives
and generous practices:
Pae White’s Mobiles are essentially flat planes
vitalized by their suspension in light and space. The fluid and delicate
shapes, the subtle colored pieces of foil or paper linked with thread and
hanged from the ceiling are liberated from the two-dimensional page and float
in etheral space, reacting to visitor’s movements.
White’s Mobiles, with sentimental
allusions or social interactions contained in the installation’s titles, become
(as the books and catalogues she designs) a narrative surface, and twist our
preconceptions of time, space, identity and function in which they exist.
Born in 1963 in
recent selected exhibitions:
2000
1999 Against Design,
1998 Greengrassi,
1997
Kay Rosen’s Paintings explore the language as
abstract system of signs and symbols.The interest of
the work lies here, where the absence, presence, rearrangment
or alteration of words and short phrases, reveals patterns and systems which
exceed and outperform their expected function. The optical precision is based
on a reductive, austere aesthetic of calculated, deceptive simplicity. Rosen’s
minimalist paintings may appear initially to negate the painterly process but
are in fact a celebration of the practice of painting in its most traditional
sense.
Born in
recent selected exhibitions:
2001 Paul Morris Gallery, New York (solo)
2000 Biennal 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New york
1998 lifeli(k)e, Museum of Contemporary Art(MOCA),
1997 Short stories, Tall Tales,
1996 Unlimited,
Art: Concept, Nice (solo)
Richard Fauguet’s practice is so diversified that he can as well paint underwears on lasagne or cover
walls with adhesive paper. All the works are characterized by their diversity
in terms of supports, techniques or subjects. But the aim is not to use the
catalogue of all strange supports, vision alteration
seems here to be determinant. The serie of Burnt Sheets (Draps Brules) reveals the spectral nature of Fauguet’s work: like the back of a stage set, a missing
part, a space of revelations. The characters represented on the large burnt sheets (relatives, heroes..) are reduced to negatives, have become ghost of
themselves, enigmatic icons due to the medium itself (fire) used to make them
appearing.
Born in 1963 in La Chatre, France; lives & woks in
recent selected exhibitions:
2000 Institut Francais,
1999 Art: Concept,
L'ideal
Grotesque,
1998
Galeria Giorgio Persano,
Bernhard Martin’s wall installations and
paintings assert the juxtaposition of various medium and techniques (hyper
realism, brush strokes, color fields, abstract, background, spray...), playing
with the surface as well as with the object. The technical skill provided by
the artist fractures the perspective of values in figurative painting, hence
criticizes the perspective of values of the consumerist society and its
relation with the human figure.
Born in 1966 in
recent selected exhibitions:
2001 Voges+Deisen
Gallery, frankfurt (solo)
PS1,
2000 Voila, le monde dans la tete, Musee d'Art Moderne,
1999 Members Only, Junge Kunst e.V,
1998
Acht mal acht mal acht, Frankfurter
Kunstverein,
In the New
Space/ Show Room (second floor), works by:
Michel Blazy
(
Theodoros Raftopoulos
(
Uri Tzaig
(
Jason Karaindros
(Greece)
Alain Sechas
(France)
Erwin Wurm
(