Fumie Sasabuchi
09 Nov - 09 Dec 2013
FUMIE SASABUCHI
HOTEL
9 November - 9 December 2013
ANDREAS GRIMM MUNCHEN is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of Berlin based artist Fumie Sasabuchi in our gallery. Fumie Sasabuchi (*1975) studied at the Tama Art University in Tokyo and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, where she graduated with diploma in 2006.
The current exhibition showcases a recent body of works which the artist created during the course of this year. Overall five paintings, new mirror pieces and one sculpture are on display. The presented works will be accompanied by an exclusive film screening on the first day of the exhibition, prefiguring the thematic field of the show between fictitious painting and the cinematic uncanny.
Fumie Sasabuchi’s paintings could be stills from movies that Hitchcock, Lynch, and Kubrick never made. The artist detects the discomforting unease of their films and restages it in her paintings. The female protagonists that Sasabuchi alienates and dissolves in her paintings reinforce the enigmatic effects of her images, unsettling a clearly defined meaning.
The hotel as an unreal place – residing itself between an uncanny familiarity and foreignness – is both symbol and setting of this disturbing atmosphere. It is the hotel, in which Sasabuchi places the doublegangers, facless figures, and strangely dismembered bodies which haunt its residents and disquiet the viewer.
The works presented here consist of a variety of media, illustrating Sasabuchi’s engagement with the attempt of intermedia referencing and translating. The peculiar stasis of her paintings, for instance, promotes the reduction of the cinematic medium, trying to condense it into a polysemous atmosphere. In her wall pieces, on the other hand, Sasabuchi portrays the big screen muses of that cinema of the uncanny. The viewers not only see their mirror image next to those portraits but find themselves estranged by them and their fates which invade the beholders personal reality. Sasabuchi’s three-dimensional work solidifies her artistic endeavours in the actual gallery space, implementing the unsettling strategies of a deliberate inversion that constitute her paintings.
We are pleased to welcome our visitors on the occasion of the Art Weekend in Munich on Friday, November 8th, from 6 until 9 pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 11 to 6 pm. On Saturday, November 9th, there will be a film screening, followed by an artist talk. For more information please visit: www.kunst-wochenende.eu.
Sasabuchi's drawings, paintings, and scupltures have been shown in galleries and institutions worldwide, like the Museum of Modern Art/PS 1 New York, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Tokyoto Museum in Tokyo, the Kunsthalle in Nürnberg, and the Van-der-Heydt Kunsthalle in Wuppertal.
HOTEL
9 November - 9 December 2013
ANDREAS GRIMM MUNCHEN is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of Berlin based artist Fumie Sasabuchi in our gallery. Fumie Sasabuchi (*1975) studied at the Tama Art University in Tokyo and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, where she graduated with diploma in 2006.
The current exhibition showcases a recent body of works which the artist created during the course of this year. Overall five paintings, new mirror pieces and one sculpture are on display. The presented works will be accompanied by an exclusive film screening on the first day of the exhibition, prefiguring the thematic field of the show between fictitious painting and the cinematic uncanny.
Fumie Sasabuchi’s paintings could be stills from movies that Hitchcock, Lynch, and Kubrick never made. The artist detects the discomforting unease of their films and restages it in her paintings. The female protagonists that Sasabuchi alienates and dissolves in her paintings reinforce the enigmatic effects of her images, unsettling a clearly defined meaning.
The hotel as an unreal place – residing itself between an uncanny familiarity and foreignness – is both symbol and setting of this disturbing atmosphere. It is the hotel, in which Sasabuchi places the doublegangers, facless figures, and strangely dismembered bodies which haunt its residents and disquiet the viewer.
The works presented here consist of a variety of media, illustrating Sasabuchi’s engagement with the attempt of intermedia referencing and translating. The peculiar stasis of her paintings, for instance, promotes the reduction of the cinematic medium, trying to condense it into a polysemous atmosphere. In her wall pieces, on the other hand, Sasabuchi portrays the big screen muses of that cinema of the uncanny. The viewers not only see their mirror image next to those portraits but find themselves estranged by them and their fates which invade the beholders personal reality. Sasabuchi’s three-dimensional work solidifies her artistic endeavours in the actual gallery space, implementing the unsettling strategies of a deliberate inversion that constitute her paintings.
We are pleased to welcome our visitors on the occasion of the Art Weekend in Munich on Friday, November 8th, from 6 until 9 pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 11 to 6 pm. On Saturday, November 9th, there will be a film screening, followed by an artist talk. For more information please visit: www.kunst-wochenende.eu.
Sasabuchi's drawings, paintings, and scupltures have been shown in galleries and institutions worldwide, like the Museum of Modern Art/PS 1 New York, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Tokyoto Museum in Tokyo, the Kunsthalle in Nürnberg, and the Van-der-Heydt Kunsthalle in Wuppertal.