DOUBLE ONE
28 Apr - 26 May 2007
SYLVIE EYBERG B Siebdruck / silkscreen
PAWEL ZAREBA PL Malerei / paintin
opening / rundgang
28.4. 11-21h
29.4. 11-18h
Everything's been done
says Sylvie Eyberg, and yet both she and Pawel Zareba have something to add - gaining new content by methods of extraction, reduction and abstraction. DOUBLE ONE lends this apparent paradox visual expression. Starting from a constant presence of (visual) abundance and fullness, the artists gradually extract from this state the poetry of our perception's latent imagery. This is achieved by playing with the ostensible thesis of (pictorial) "clarification through visual scrutiny."
Eyberg clips photographs - culled from the popular print media from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1980s - down to their inherent narrative content and force. She enlarges these primarily black and white photographs, combining them with text fragments that likewise, as cut out and blown up pages of text, function as bilingual, lyrical layouts. By greatly enlarging the source material, the patterns of halftone spots become an ephemeral pictorial support, an incisive mesh of monochromatic dots.
Zareba explores visual expression along the margins of the monochrome, the material and the textural. Within the gamut of his paintings he resolutely seeks to expand concepts of monochrome painting. Arguing to the ends of "colour as an autonomous quality" (Winfried Konnertz) he adds the aspect of the mirror, which in turn forces surrounding space and the observer to become active elements within the picture.
As guest artists to the gallery, Galerie b2_ welcomes Sylvie Eyberg and Pawel Zareba back to Leipzig. Eyberg's works were exhibited in FICTIONS at Kunstraum B/2 in 2000, and Zareba completed his education at the Leipzig art school. While Sylvie Eyberg (together with Valerie Mannaerts) represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 2003, Pawel Zareba withdrew from exhibiting for a number of years. With DOUBLE ONE, we are delighted to present to the public in Leipzig recent works by Sylvie Eyberg and Pawel Zareba.
PAWEL ZAREBA PL Malerei / paintin
opening / rundgang
28.4. 11-21h
29.4. 11-18h
Everything's been done
says Sylvie Eyberg, and yet both she and Pawel Zareba have something to add - gaining new content by methods of extraction, reduction and abstraction. DOUBLE ONE lends this apparent paradox visual expression. Starting from a constant presence of (visual) abundance and fullness, the artists gradually extract from this state the poetry of our perception's latent imagery. This is achieved by playing with the ostensible thesis of (pictorial) "clarification through visual scrutiny."
Eyberg clips photographs - culled from the popular print media from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1980s - down to their inherent narrative content and force. She enlarges these primarily black and white photographs, combining them with text fragments that likewise, as cut out and blown up pages of text, function as bilingual, lyrical layouts. By greatly enlarging the source material, the patterns of halftone spots become an ephemeral pictorial support, an incisive mesh of monochromatic dots.
Zareba explores visual expression along the margins of the monochrome, the material and the textural. Within the gamut of his paintings he resolutely seeks to expand concepts of monochrome painting. Arguing to the ends of "colour as an autonomous quality" (Winfried Konnertz) he adds the aspect of the mirror, which in turn forces surrounding space and the observer to become active elements within the picture.
As guest artists to the gallery, Galerie b2_ welcomes Sylvie Eyberg and Pawel Zareba back to Leipzig. Eyberg's works were exhibited in FICTIONS at Kunstraum B/2 in 2000, and Zareba completed his education at the Leipzig art school. While Sylvie Eyberg (together with Valerie Mannaerts) represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 2003, Pawel Zareba withdrew from exhibiting for a number of years. With DOUBLE ONE, we are delighted to present to the public in Leipzig recent works by Sylvie Eyberg and Pawel Zareba.