Sabine Hornig
26 Sep - 28 Nov 2009
SABINE HORNIG
"Die Gegenstände ziehen sich zurück"
26. September - 28. November 2009
Opening reception Friday, 25. September, 7-9 pm
Markgrafenstrasse
We are very happy to announce our relocation to Kreuzberg and the opening of our new gallery with a solo exhibition featuring Sabine Hornig.
In her fifth solo exhibition, Sabine Hornig will present a new group of work entitled, "Die Gegenstände ziehen sich zurück", comprising of sculptures and photographs.
Unlike the artist's earlier architectural interventions, the three sculptures are placed in the room in a model-like fashion. The title likewise points to a new thematic complex emphasizing the objects' transformation. In a semiotic process of reversal, the objects are robbed of their volume by the illustrations, which are then reincorporated into the free-standing sculptures as pictorial media.
In one of the three sculptures, for example, Hornig has stretched a piece of fabric diagonally across a construction of wooden slats. The cloth bears the image of a transparent corner of a facade. The tripartite wooden construction is reminiscent of window and door frames which can be tipped open. The viewer's gaze combines the parts to create a space literally held together by hinges.
In another work, a large transparency has been hung like a flag on a steel sculpture more than two metres in height. The computer waste illustrated in the transparency appears to be falling to the ground. The hazardous waste is nothing but a thin image carrier - just as the sculpture, however massive it appears, ultimately consists merely of four unprocessed steel plates assembled to form a dark interior.
In the eye of the beholder, surface and space interlock and give the objects an imaginary body for a few moments. At the same time, due to the transparent image carriers (transparency, printed fabric) this body cannot be isolated from real space, and leads the viewer's eye back to the construction again and again. What remains is the flat surface of the image and the memory of a space concealed behind the veil of the image carrier.
"The accumulation of the masses of objects does not prevent the distance to the objects - and thus to reality – from increasing." (Sabine Hornig). The commonplace objects and material which Sabine Hornig removes from their commonplace constellations make allusion to architectural and art-historical themes. At the same time, they are commentaries, e.g. on abstract sculpture, the room divider, the still life. With material apparently familiar to us, Sabine Hornig sounds out the possibilities and parameters of sculpture.
Sabine Hornig lives and works in Berlin. Her work is presently represented in Wolfsburg in the exhibition "Leichtigkeit und Enthusiasmus", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, closing 25 October 2009, as well as in the exhibition of the Burger Collection entitled "Conflicting Tales".
"Die Gegenstände ziehen sich zurück"
26. September - 28. November 2009
Opening reception Friday, 25. September, 7-9 pm
Markgrafenstrasse
We are very happy to announce our relocation to Kreuzberg and the opening of our new gallery with a solo exhibition featuring Sabine Hornig.
In her fifth solo exhibition, Sabine Hornig will present a new group of work entitled, "Die Gegenstände ziehen sich zurück", comprising of sculptures and photographs.
Unlike the artist's earlier architectural interventions, the three sculptures are placed in the room in a model-like fashion. The title likewise points to a new thematic complex emphasizing the objects' transformation. In a semiotic process of reversal, the objects are robbed of their volume by the illustrations, which are then reincorporated into the free-standing sculptures as pictorial media.
In one of the three sculptures, for example, Hornig has stretched a piece of fabric diagonally across a construction of wooden slats. The cloth bears the image of a transparent corner of a facade. The tripartite wooden construction is reminiscent of window and door frames which can be tipped open. The viewer's gaze combines the parts to create a space literally held together by hinges.
In another work, a large transparency has been hung like a flag on a steel sculpture more than two metres in height. The computer waste illustrated in the transparency appears to be falling to the ground. The hazardous waste is nothing but a thin image carrier - just as the sculpture, however massive it appears, ultimately consists merely of four unprocessed steel plates assembled to form a dark interior.
In the eye of the beholder, surface and space interlock and give the objects an imaginary body for a few moments. At the same time, due to the transparent image carriers (transparency, printed fabric) this body cannot be isolated from real space, and leads the viewer's eye back to the construction again and again. What remains is the flat surface of the image and the memory of a space concealed behind the veil of the image carrier.
"The accumulation of the masses of objects does not prevent the distance to the objects - and thus to reality – from increasing." (Sabine Hornig). The commonplace objects and material which Sabine Hornig removes from their commonplace constellations make allusion to architectural and art-historical themes. At the same time, they are commentaries, e.g. on abstract sculpture, the room divider, the still life. With material apparently familiar to us, Sabine Hornig sounds out the possibilities and parameters of sculpture.
Sabine Hornig lives and works in Berlin. Her work is presently represented in Wolfsburg in the exhibition "Leichtigkeit und Enthusiasmus", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, closing 25 October 2009, as well as in the exhibition of the Burger Collection entitled "Conflicting Tales".