OPENING RECEPTION
September 20, 6 - 9 pm
EXHIBITIONS DATES
September 21 - November 23, 2013
ABOUT THE SHOW
While this years Berlin Art Week celebrates the durability of painting and its relevance in contemporary art, Jiri Svestka Berlin entitles a group exhibition specifically to another, yet similarly classic carrier material of art: paper. Based on Paper brings together different graphic expressions; thus allowing a promising insight into todays artistic practice. The orientation along the papers format as well as its structuring and superior entity unites the exhibited positions of the group show.
Since their solo show Echolog (2012) the works by Czech artist duo David Böhm (*1982, CZ) | Jiri Franta (*1978, CZ) might be familiar to the gallery audience. Their often-multimedia approach deals with the playful exploitation of drawing as an autonomous medium. The complex improvisational acts on paper are based on the graphic cooperation between the two artists, through which their working process appears in form of an ongoing chain reaction.
The proliferating structures of netlike weaves in Christian Pilz (*1978, D) drawings share certain characteristics with the above-mentioned artworks. Pilz draws endless labyrinths and monstrous architectural motifs. His fragile constructions are connected to surreal configurations emerging beyond the edge of the paper. In constructive mania (Eugen Blume) he creates illusionistic paradoxes, which repeatedly resemble pictures by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Nadine Fecht (*1976, D) captures the elements of line, space and paper in entirely conceptual manner, as variables of a changing referential system. While the carrier material merges into the wall, the dense chaos of hundreds of pen lines dissolves into the third dimension. The viewer perceives the drawing in space and is subjected to an exceptional, optical force of attraction.
Roey Heifetz (*1978, IL) artistic process is committed to a different way of deconstruction and exists in the tension between uniformity and the attention to detail. He precisely tracks every notion of human mimicry and physiognomy with numerous pencil-strokes on large paper sheets. Different characters appear on the pictures, which he refers to as authorities.
The Hungarian artist Dora Eszter Molnar (*1985, HU) chose for her printed graphic series Impersonally Customized an extraordinary carrier material. Amid the structured chaos of the timeworn 1980ies pattern paper, faceless figures appear that seemingly subordinate to the customized templates, but at the same time ask the existential question: Do you think Im stupid?