Tim Bennett

Bettina Khano

Alison Moffett

 

 

Opening: October 22, 6 – 9 pm

October 23 – December 11, 2010

Opening hours: Tue – Sat, 6 – 9

 
 
 

„Jetzt schien sich in einiger Entfernung das Dunkel zu brechen, und bald traten beide in eine ziemlich große Lichtung. Der Mond schien klar hinein und zeigte, dass hier noch vor kurzem die Axt unbarmherzig gewütet hatte.“

 

The disintegration of spatial limits and frictions between the inside and the outside, are the subject of „Lichtung“- our new group show curated by young German curator Anna Redeker.
 
The British sculptor Tim Bennett is predominantly working with standardised materials. Through his interventions the sculptures are changed into aesthetically tangible objects. The formal repertoire of these painterly sculptures refers to Minimal and Concrete-Art. By using connoted standard colour-systems and standardised formats Bennett examines the constraints of everyday objects in correspondence to our perception. 
The building-site-fence which the artist deformed for this exhibition is in complete contrast to the associations its colourful designs might evoke in us. The original purpose of this fence, that is, closing and barricading a space, has been offset.
The wall-piece „Halfzware“ consists of different types of wallpapers that have been modified in shape. Wallpaper is a material surrounding all of us in our everyday lives. For Bennett it marks above all a division between the inside and the outside.
 
In her work, Bettina Khano is dealing with visual disintegration – not only according to spatial perspective, ever-changing, depending on the viewer’s position, but also according to the viewer’s physical presence in the exhibition space. By manipulating the gallery space with mirrors and fog, she forces the viewer to question his own position in the space.

For this exhibition, she has produced the video-installation „The Sky is the Limit“. This installation consists of two large video projections, depicting an artificial cloud on two screens, standing vis-à-vis. Here, the interior is facing the exterior view and therefore two different perceptions of space and its extensible boundaries are being visualized.
The spatial irritation, caused by the work „Befogged“, a mirror, is not losing its disturbing effect even after a long period of observation.
 
The individual and space surrounding it are the base of Alison Moffett`s work. In her large-scale architectural drawings, Moffett examines the relationship between the individual and his environment in respect to its construction and content. The human habitat is reduced to its objects and hence its architectural coherencies disintegrate. The objects lose their hold in space, the outer space is becomes visible and the torn down walls give the scenery an almost threatening look. 
The title of the work, „Quarantine II“ refers to the state of being locked in. The spatial limits in this piece though are not walls or architecture as such, but barbed wire. The sculpture „Cube“ works like a drawing, disembedded form the second dimension.



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