Eric Bell, Kristoffer Frick
10 Sep - 04 Oct 2008
ERIC BELL, KRISTOFFER FRICK
"Fields Seen Apart"
10.09. – 04.10. 2008, Opening 10.09.2008 at 7 pm
Hermes und der Pfau is happy to announce the exhibition “fields seen apart” by Canadian artists Eric Bell and Kristoffer Frick (* both 1985). Eric Bell and Kristoffer Frick, both students of Willem de Rooij at Frankfurt’s Staedelschule, explore the aesthetic readability of modern representation systems in design, architecture, fashion and art. Their interest focuses on the surplus ideological value retained by individual graphic symbols that have been isolated from their larger context. The two artists create precisely arranged displays in their installations – as recently with their work “No Soldiers in the Scenery”, created for the display window of Duesseldorf’s Kunstverein fuer die Rheinlande und Westfalen – in which complex associations and layers of meaning arise from targeted re-contextualisations of annexed visual elements. The question of how material and formal characteristics have an effect on the content of a work, and how they influence the connotative meaning of a work, as well as its frame of interpretation, is fundamental for Kristoffer Frick and Eric Bell. With slide projections, photographs and sculptural elements, the exhibition designed for Hermes und der Pfau plays with formal modes of presentation and the symbolic charging of images and objects. With the estranged materiality of a silk image printed on canvas, juxtaposed with modernist structural forms in the slide projection, the artists foreground the experiential as well as the intellectual perception of their work.
Eric Bell was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada in 1985. He studied at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Canada from 2003 to 2007, and has been a visiting student in Willem de Rooij’s class at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt/Main, Germany since 2008. Kristoffer Frick was born in 1985 in Nuertingen, Germany and has been studying in Willem de Rooij’s class at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt/Main, Germany since 2005.
In 2007 they participated in the exhibition “Post-Mass-Audience Age” curated by Ritter&Staiff at the gallery of the HfBK, Hamburg. In 2008 their work “No Soldiers in the Scenery” was exhibited in the display windows of the Kunstverein fuer die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf.
"Fields Seen Apart"
10.09. – 04.10. 2008, Opening 10.09.2008 at 7 pm
Hermes und der Pfau is happy to announce the exhibition “fields seen apart” by Canadian artists Eric Bell and Kristoffer Frick (* both 1985). Eric Bell and Kristoffer Frick, both students of Willem de Rooij at Frankfurt’s Staedelschule, explore the aesthetic readability of modern representation systems in design, architecture, fashion and art. Their interest focuses on the surplus ideological value retained by individual graphic symbols that have been isolated from their larger context. The two artists create precisely arranged displays in their installations – as recently with their work “No Soldiers in the Scenery”, created for the display window of Duesseldorf’s Kunstverein fuer die Rheinlande und Westfalen – in which complex associations and layers of meaning arise from targeted re-contextualisations of annexed visual elements. The question of how material and formal characteristics have an effect on the content of a work, and how they influence the connotative meaning of a work, as well as its frame of interpretation, is fundamental for Kristoffer Frick and Eric Bell. With slide projections, photographs and sculptural elements, the exhibition designed for Hermes und der Pfau plays with formal modes of presentation and the symbolic charging of images and objects. With the estranged materiality of a silk image printed on canvas, juxtaposed with modernist structural forms in the slide projection, the artists foreground the experiential as well as the intellectual perception of their work.
Eric Bell was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada in 1985. He studied at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Canada from 2003 to 2007, and has been a visiting student in Willem de Rooij’s class at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt/Main, Germany since 2008. Kristoffer Frick was born in 1985 in Nuertingen, Germany and has been studying in Willem de Rooij’s class at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt/Main, Germany since 2005.
In 2007 they participated in the exhibition “Post-Mass-Audience Age” curated by Ritter&Staiff at the gallery of the HfBK, Hamburg. In 2008 their work “No Soldiers in the Scenery” was exhibited in the display windows of the Kunstverein fuer die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf.