Katarina Burin
15 May - 27 Jun 2009
KATARINA BURIN
"Villa Rustica"
15 May 2009 - 27 June 2009
Andreas Grimm is pleased to present "Villa Rustica," Katarina Burin's third exhibition at the gallery in Munich. In her works in various media, Katarina Burin delves into the history of architecture and design, both famous and commonplace, with an eye to how images and documents both represent the past and live in the world today. For this exhibition, Burin brings together selections from two years of work that examine representations of tourism and leisure. Based on ephemera, such as matchbooks, napkins and images from travel books and travel agencies, Burin's drawings, collages and sculptures address the representation of leisure historically as well as its selling, status and mystique.
Villa rustica was the term used by the ancient Romans to denote a villa set in the open countryside, often the hub of an agricultural estate, distinguished from an urban or resort villa. Under this title, she gathers works like the drawings Holiday Home of the Trade Union and Residence de Weekend, as well as the recent sculpture Villa Rustica / Villa Urbana, in which a multi-part screen structure is combined with building models inspired by a Paris shop window. Such works begin to speak to class, both within and without the traditional "leisure class."
The forms of the screens are mimicked in the Leisure Ensembles, sculptural shelves that present found images as both movable and interwoven. Large drawings made by hand spraying ink through stencils, recreate images from hotel and leisure industry matchbooks, evoking both a bygone era, and the collections of a traveller.
Katarina Burin, born 1975 in Bratislava/Slovakia received in 2002 her Masters of Fine Arts at Yale University. Her work has been shown worldwwide, including White Columns New York, Museums Quartier Vienna, and the Thurn & Taxis Palais in Bregenz. This year, Ms. Burin received the McDowell Residency Fellowship.
"Villa Rustica"
15 May 2009 - 27 June 2009
Andreas Grimm is pleased to present "Villa Rustica," Katarina Burin's third exhibition at the gallery in Munich. In her works in various media, Katarina Burin delves into the history of architecture and design, both famous and commonplace, with an eye to how images and documents both represent the past and live in the world today. For this exhibition, Burin brings together selections from two years of work that examine representations of tourism and leisure. Based on ephemera, such as matchbooks, napkins and images from travel books and travel agencies, Burin's drawings, collages and sculptures address the representation of leisure historically as well as its selling, status and mystique.
Villa rustica was the term used by the ancient Romans to denote a villa set in the open countryside, often the hub of an agricultural estate, distinguished from an urban or resort villa. Under this title, she gathers works like the drawings Holiday Home of the Trade Union and Residence de Weekend, as well as the recent sculpture Villa Rustica / Villa Urbana, in which a multi-part screen structure is combined with building models inspired by a Paris shop window. Such works begin to speak to class, both within and without the traditional "leisure class."
The forms of the screens are mimicked in the Leisure Ensembles, sculptural shelves that present found images as both movable and interwoven. Large drawings made by hand spraying ink through stencils, recreate images from hotel and leisure industry matchbooks, evoking both a bygone era, and the collections of a traveller.
Katarina Burin, born 1975 in Bratislava/Slovakia received in 2002 her Masters of Fine Arts at Yale University. Her work has been shown worldwwide, including White Columns New York, Museums Quartier Vienna, and the Thurn & Taxis Palais in Bregenz. This year, Ms. Burin received the McDowell Residency Fellowship.