Doris Frohnapfel PAPERWORK &
04 Jun - 01 Jul 2011
© Doris Frohnapfel
Parkett/Floor Nr. 4
2010, Papier, schwarzer Passepartoutkarton
140 cm x 100 cm
Parkett/Floor Nr. 4
2010, Papier, schwarzer Passepartoutkarton
140 cm x 100 cm
Galerie b2_ 2011, view
Galerie b2_ 2011, view
Galerie b2_ 2011, view
Parkett/Floor No.1
2008
Papier, schwarzer Passepartoutkarton, 90 x 125 cm, Rahmen
2008
Papier, schwarzer Passepartoutkarton, 90 x 125 cm, Rahmen
Parkett/Floor, No.28
2011
Fotogramm, Barytpapier, 40 x 30,5 cm,
Passepartout, 55 x 45,5 cm, Rahmen
2011
Fotogramm, Barytpapier, 40 x 30,5 cm,
Passepartout, 55 x 45,5 cm, Rahmen
Parkett/Floor No.28b
2011
Papier, schwarzer Passepartoutkarton, 40 x 30,5 cm, Rahmen
2011
Papier, schwarzer Passepartoutkarton, 40 x 30,5 cm, Rahmen
DORIS FROHNAPFEL
Paperwork &
4 June - 2 July, 2011
Doris Frohnapfel's new artworks are inspired by historical photographs of international trading floors. They depict the trading floors blotched with small papers from where the stockbrokers have randomly dropped their notes. What is abstract in the sense of Marx – the quality behind the notes – appears objectively on the floor. What is objective in the photography of the exchanges becomes abstract again in Frohnapfel's collages and photograms. The artist has staged the flutter of the notes, and photographs them in order to find new compositions using these samples. This puzzlement of concreteness and abstraction could be understood as a symbol of economic powerlessness. Doris Frohnapfel counteracts this confusion with an artistic statement: all art is abstract but not without an object. Ultimately, we come not from nothingness.
For the exhibition project “The Return of Investment” Doris Frohnapfel engages with the history of mentality of the capital. At last the artist was concerned with symbols of the abstract relationship between the capital and the ware - as once they appeared in the interior space or better interior life of the (New York) stock exchange. Now Frohnapfel turns towards the surrounding area of the Wall Street. She lays open historically grown “shifts“ of the context of trafficking in money and persons. At the beginning of the 18th century a prosperous slave market established on Wall Street. The perfidy relationship between capital and corpus as well as its disguise by the abstract terms of the modern financial system - just imagine the term „human capital“ - substantiate in the historical shifts on site. So Frohnapfels „archeological artefacts“ become absolutely current.
Paperwork &
4 June - 2 July, 2011
Doris Frohnapfel's new artworks are inspired by historical photographs of international trading floors. They depict the trading floors blotched with small papers from where the stockbrokers have randomly dropped their notes. What is abstract in the sense of Marx – the quality behind the notes – appears objectively on the floor. What is objective in the photography of the exchanges becomes abstract again in Frohnapfel's collages and photograms. The artist has staged the flutter of the notes, and photographs them in order to find new compositions using these samples. This puzzlement of concreteness and abstraction could be understood as a symbol of economic powerlessness. Doris Frohnapfel counteracts this confusion with an artistic statement: all art is abstract but not without an object. Ultimately, we come not from nothingness.
For the exhibition project “The Return of Investment” Doris Frohnapfel engages with the history of mentality of the capital. At last the artist was concerned with symbols of the abstract relationship between the capital and the ware - as once they appeared in the interior space or better interior life of the (New York) stock exchange. Now Frohnapfel turns towards the surrounding area of the Wall Street. She lays open historically grown “shifts“ of the context of trafficking in money and persons. At the beginning of the 18th century a prosperous slave market established on Wall Street. The perfidy relationship between capital and corpus as well as its disguise by the abstract terms of the modern financial system - just imagine the term „human capital“ - substantiate in the historical shifts on site. So Frohnapfels „archeological artefacts“ become absolutely current.