Vernissage & opening new gallery season with two solo exhibitions:
Manfred Peckl & Julia Schewalie
Soft opening (RSVP) Sunday, September 8: 16-18 uur.
Grand opening Saturday September 14: 15:00 – 19:30 uur (both artists present)
Performance Manfred Peckl September 14th at 16:00 hrs.
‘WORD!’ | solo Manfred Peckl (1968, Austria) lives and works in Berlin)
Manfred Peckl is an artist who works with many different methods and media. Equally known for his wild performances, his elaborate collages, his texts, music and sculptures or his play with identities, Peckl now surprises with his first cycle of paintings in 30 years!
WHAT?
ACID PORN JAZZ FUCK WOOD SHIT FACT HYMN
HOAX MOON SOLD NUDE CASH OBEY
SAND CLAY STOP SOUL POEM ECHO HYPE VIVA
OLD NEW GAY SEA HOW SEX POP WHY RED
NO ME HI WE
Manfred Peckl paints the world with words. The designation of classical art historical subjects such as NUDE for the nude, PORN or SEX for the sexual act, ME for the self-portrait, WE for a group picture or SEA for a scenery are juxtaposed with various other abstract and concrete terms such as STOP, FACT, JAZZ or FUCK that have become images of their own concepts. Pictures of their significance, the words, repeatedly painted transparent in multi-colored overlapping circles, at the same time release associations from the collective visual memory. We are confronted with the question of the designation and the designated. Repetition is a principle of memorizing and letting go in equal measure. Both lead to new insights, to new images. Their forms, each with specific internal orders, arise from the ambivalence of signs and interstices, the painted and the unpainted, the spoken and the unspoken. Read between the lines! It is a game with different levels. In some cases, the notion of the picture is only perceived partially at first.
Only at second glance, for example, does ASH become CASH, HIT become SHIT or AND become SAND The reduction to four letters per word is based on the four sides of the square, the four corners, the four cardinal points and is manifested in the images through the motif of the cross. The pictures with three-letter words radiate in three directions per color, the pictures with two-letter words look in two directions per color. The words meander concentrically from rays to circles in squares. Speed, the impression of a rotating movement in many pictures, creates a kaleidoscope in the large ensemble.
- Dr. Nackelpemf, theoretician and curator
'Black is black, but sometimes not' |
solo Julia Schewalie (1988, Kazachstan, lives and works in Munich)
Like our personality, our reality is not static but in a state of constant shift and change. Nothing is as it appears. A change in perspective sometimes changes everything. This is a mesmerizing aspect of the works of Julia Schewalie, which have an inherently ephemeral and fleeting quality often juxtaposed with a perplexingly unusual use of materials. What at first glance seems to be a perfectly monochrome is, upon closer examina8on, much more variagated. All of her works unfold in relationship to their surroundings and depend on the light, shadows, movement in their given environments. The way they continuously change their appearance characterizes appeal. The way the surfaces alternate with the light lends the works a dynamic quality; something is put in motion by the viewers and their shifting positions or the change of lighting conditions in the space.
–from “Beneath the Surface - On the works of Julia Schewalie” by Anna Wondrak (art historian M.A.)
Julia Schewalie’s works are the result of a constant process of fragmentation that began figuratively on canvas and has led to a steady dissolution of the figure in her work. Through means of sculpture, she was ultimately able to integrate the element of movement into her work and produced her first monochrome paintings. The exhibition focuses on these black and grey works - in which she gives the colour, what is actually a state of darkness, plenty of room for all shades of the absence of light - and void.
Julia Schewalie (1988, Kazakhstan) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich from 2009 to 2015 with Anke Doberauer and Hermann Pitz. She lives and works in Munich. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad and are part of distinguished state and private collections like Bavarian State Painting Collections.