123
TIM BERRESHEIM
Future Gipsy Antifolklore I (Gloaming) (2011)
Diasec
120 x 120 cm
123
TIM BERRESHEIM
Future Gipsy Antifolklore III (Gloaming) (2011)
Diasec
120 x 120 cm
123
MADELEINE BOSCHAN
Varatio delectat (Teknopod) (2011)
Glow lamp, hour glass, lacqer, metal, mirrors, plastic, neon, socket-outlets & thermometer
173 x 46 x 102 cm
123
MADELEINE BOSCHAN
Kupplungsschrein/Colomba (Elektromanile) (2011)
Antenna, sockets, plastic, pigeon spikes a.o.
97 x 38 x 80 cm
123
LAURA BRUCE
Reconciliation (2011)
Over-painting acrylic on found painting
66 x 95 cm
123
LAURA BRUCE
Big Blue Wave (2011)
Over-painting acrylic on found painting
48,5 x 57 cm
123
LAURA BRUCE
Tentative (2011)
Over-painting acrylic on found painting
60 x 84 cm
123
LAURA BRUCE
Snow White (2011)
Over-painting acrylic on found painting
67 x 96 cm
123
FRAUKE DANNERT
Dazzle (SEP-Field) III (2011)
Carpet-Inlay
variable sizes
123
FRAUKE DANNERT
Untitled (2011)
Paper collage on brass
28,4 x 17,7 cm
123
PETER DOBROSCHKE
Verkauft (2006)
MiniDV on DVD
40min
123
MATHEW HALE = ALEXANDER VOICE
Orange am Adenauerplatz (2011)
Kodak Ektrapro slide Projection
14min, 81 slides
123
EVA EUN-SIL HAN
Untitled (2010)
Collage
63 x 49 cm (framed)
123
EVA EUN-SIL HAN
Untitled (Obsession) (2011)
mixed media on canvas
100 x 80 cm
123
EVA EUN-SIL HAN
Untitled (Irregulier) (2011)
mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
123
EVA EUN-SIL HAN
Untitled (Obsession II) (2011)
mixed media on canvas
40 x 30 cm
123
LOTHAR HEMPEL
Untitled (2010)
Mixed media
235 x 180 x 30,5cm
123
JONATHAN HERNANDEZ
The Dark Side of Lights (2009)
Paper collage on cardboard
79,5 x 60 cm
123
JONATHAN HERNANDEZ
Mehr Qualität am Sonntag (2009)
Paper collage on cardboard
49 x 48 cm
123
JONATHAN HERNANDEZ
Purple Rain (2009)
Medicine ball, plastic crow, pigeon defense
90 x 70 x 45 cm
123
MATTHIAS HESSELBACHER
Untitled (2011)
Paper collage, mixed media
30 x 21 cm
123
MATTHIAS HESSELBACHER
Untitled (2011)
Paper collage, mixed media
50 x 43 cm
123
MATTHIAS HESSELBACHER
Untitled (2011)
Paper collage, mixed media
29 x 28 cm
123
MATTHIAS HESSELBACHER
Untitled (2011)
Paper collage, mixed media
64 x 50 cm
123
MATTHIAS HESSELBACHER
Untitled (2011)
Paper collage, mixed media
64 x 50 cm
123
JAKOB KOLDING
Shared View (2011)
Collage on paper
40 x 28,4 cm
123
JAKOB KOLDING
Get the Balance Right (2011)
Collage on paper
40 x 28,4 cm
123
JAKOB KOLDING
City 2 (2011)
Collage on paper
40 x 28,4 cm
123
JAKOB KOLDING
Untitled (2011)
Two stacked paper works
each poster 84 x 60 cm
123
JAKOB KOLDING
Untitled (2011)
Two stacked paper works
each poster 84 x 60 cm
123
ZENITA KOMAD
Ajuste-Accomodate (2011)
Mixed media on paper
40 x 30 cm
123
ZENITA KOMAD
Herzblatt (2011)
Mixed media on paper
40 x 30 cm
123
ZENITA KOMAD
Screw (2011)
Mixed media on paper
40 x 30 cm
123
ZENITA KOMAD
Himmelsleiter (2011)
Mixed media on paper
40 x 30 cm
123
ZENITA KOMAD
Atomie (2011)
Mixed media on paper
40 x 30 cm
123
ZENITA KOMAD
Quantentheorie (2011)
Mixed media on paper
40 x 30 cm
123
ZENITA KOMAD
Johanna (2011)
Mixed media on paper
40 x 30 cm
123
ZENITA KOMAD
Nein (2011)
Mixed media on paper
40 x 30 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Collage Nr. 466 (2010)
Paper collage
24 x 27 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Collage Nr. 336 (2010)
Paper collage
27 x 20 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Collage Nr. 206 (2010)
Paper collage
30 x 43 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Collage Nr. 174 (2009)
Paper collage
26 x 20 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Collage Nr. 168 (2009)
Paper collage
17 x 16 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Collage Nr. 150 (2009)
Paper collage
28 x 21 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Collage Nr. 148 (2009)
Paper collage
26 x 18 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Collage Nr. 68 (2010)
Paper collage
18 x 20 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Collage Nr. 67 (2009)
Paper collage
18 x 12 cm
123
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK
Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940 - 1970, Emile de Antonio, 1972 (2010)
116min, Acrylic on canvas
180 x 250 cm
123
JOHN SPARAGANA
Untitled (2010)
Magazine pages with portions fatigued, sliced and remixed, on paper
77 x 39,5 cm
123
JOHN SPARAGANA
Untitled (2010)
Magazine pages with portions fatigued, sliced and remixed, on paper
77 x 39,5 cm
123
JOHN SPARAGANA
Tahrir Square Protest/Morris Louis
"Unfurled Series" (2011)
Sliced and mixed inkjet prints, acrylics on paper
76,5 x 233,5 cm
123
JACOB WHIBLEY
Diagram Two (Koetis) (2010)
Paper ephemera on panel
26,5 x 23 cm
123
JACOB WHIBLEY
Diagram Three (Allapoole) (2010)
paper ephemera on panel
26,5 x 23 cm
123
JACOB WHIBLEY
Diagram Five (Tutvused) (2010)
paper ephemera on panel
26,5 x 23 cm
SYNECDOCHE
29 October – 22 December 2011   |  Bourouina Gallery

with: Tim Berresheim, Madeleine Boschan, Laura Bruce, Frauke Dannert, Peter Dobroschke, Mathew Hale = Alexander Voice, Eva Eun-Sil Han, Lothar Hempel, Jonathan Hernandez, Matthias Hesselbacher, Jakob Kolding, Zenita Komad, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, John Sparagana, Jacob Whibley.

Bourouina Gallery is pleased to present Synecdoche, a group show curated by Johannes Sperling.

The collage is one of the art forms most perfectly suited towards reflecting the present times - an era in which boundaries blur and the whole world appears to be zapping, compiling and remixing. It is not about deciding upon any one thing but assembling from an endless pool of possibilities.

Synecdoche examines the question of what collage can constitute in 2011 and counterposes the medium's most common and, currently, well-distributed „retro-wave“ variations. Beyond that, the exhibition is informed by the search for the true heirs to the intellectual heritage of the pioneers of collage. Instead of any concrete definition, this exhibition offers new and different approaches. with which the notion of collage is to be understood more as a basic practise and conceptual principle rather than any rigid or specific technique.

At times, the attempt at overcoming the limitations posed by the pre-existence of appropriated material results in a broadening of the fundamental principles that underlie the medium of collage. At the same time, however, it also gives rise to unexpected combinations of found material with newly created imagery. With some works, the big question concerning the sense and purpose of creating entirely new images before the backdrop of the aforementioned flood arise. Nonetheless, the artists' use of historical imagery is not geared toward any comfortable journey through the past but much more in the impossibility of achieving any such traversal. The artists involved finally decide whether the focus of a given piece ought to be dedicated toward the common denominators or rather the differences between individual components (whereby the individual elements can be homogeneously interlaced or might be caused to repel one another altogether).

The compositions created often play with our natural tendencies toward wanting to define or locate all that we perceive of within an ordered system. In so doing, they cause us to conceive of what is already known in new ways. Along these lines, the exhibited works upset the perceptual systems of their beholders, thus forcing the latter to engage themselves with their own environments and rethink established notions.

The artists in Synecdoche are unified by their examination on the complex interplay between individual elements and the larger whole which they comprise- the very notion to which this exhibition owes its title. In their works, the concept of collage is further developed, advanced, scrutinized, and expanded; new forms of expression are investigated. Consistently, the showing artists refrain from limiting themselves to working with paper (the working material more classically associated with collage) so that the exhibition is also comprised of painting, sculpture, photography, installation and slide projection.

As the artists have not been shown yet in this constellation, Synecdoche constitutes an new occurrence altogether. Through its combination of the works presented, this show in fact makes the invisible visible.
 

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