janinebeangallery “Kabinette”
Janinebeangallery presents four basic approaches towards modern paintings, drawings and sculpture from South Corea, Canada and Germany.
The group exhibition contains works by Hyuna Kim - Mari Lou - Ernst Altmann - Irene Pätzug. Three of those artists will be shown for the first time at janinebeangallery.
Hyuna Kim (South Corea)
The paintings by Hyuna Kom show stragnge, unlogic but on the other hand familiar pictures which play with archetypes of dream images which propose and plea. Like dreams who have the charcteristic to to blur one’s perception, Kim’s images seem to be the imagery of such a mysterious process. A process in which the rooms, things and animals get detracted of their assignments and meaning, simultaneously - because of some collision of things not belonging together - gaining new relations and unknown meanings.
Kim’s work is charcterized by some unrelated trains of thought as well as of huge isolation and melancholy.
Ernst Altmann (Germany)
The big paintings by Berlin artist and former student of Daniel Richter, Ernst Altmann, look melancholic as well. Altmann is on a search for clarity in in some intellectual and formal sense. For him the formal simplicity and strictness means freedom regarding his expression. Stylistic he orients himself through his stencil paintings among others of medieval and asian cuts. Ernst Altmann deals with themes from history and literature and embeds them into his works. He creates pictures with one or two colours on canvas and paper.
Irene Pätzung (Germany)
The sculptor Irene Pätzung, graduate of Kunsthochschule Weißensee, plays with positioning in the room, with the visualization of the invisible. Pätzung’s objects and rooms become images, thereby she sees her plastic work as some expansion of the room, the visible as well as the recalled. The presence of the viewer expands the image and creates a new and own validity. Being on one level with the objects, the viewer becomes a part of the image.
Mari Lou (Canada)
The artist Mari Lou ties up with her series “Serial Killers”. By presenting snap shots at the beginning of her series she created some ironic paging of personal states like distress and ease, she now expands her topics by some storytelling and thereby seasonal distantness. It’s basically the background serving as stylistic medium, creating some dramatic context which transforms Mari Lou’s figures into new coherences - even though the interpretation can vary.
Group exhibition from 15th of march 2008 till 12th of april 2008 - Opening night on the 14th of march at 7pm - janinebeangallery - torstrasse 201 – 10115 berlin – germany - http://www.janinebeangallery.com - Mo, We, Fr: 11am-6pm - Tue, Thu: 11.00am-4.30pm - Sa: noon-6pm
