Myriam Holme
03 Jul - 27 Aug 2011
MYRIAM HOLME
von donnerloser wucht (with thunderless force)
3 July - 27 August, 2011
Spatial collage: Steel sheets, attached to form a space-filling surface, push through the existing wall in the back section of the gallery. Temporal collage: Exposed to water for a longer period of time during the working process, brown to black rust rivulets now form rivers or lakes and dissolve the grey of the steel surface. Fixed with a layer of transparent varnish, they simultaneously mark a formal choreography of the space. The materiality that can now be perceived detaches itself from the temporal process of corroding steel, and the viewer stands in Myriam Holme’s abstract stage composition von donnerloser wucht (of thunderless force). While in the previous space-pictures, rough glass cliffs were an elementary component alongside aluminium, what we now see is a visual ping-pong game in the emptiness of the gaps between variously folded and bent aluminium objects bearing collages of flowing corrosive fluid, varnish and paper.
The visible hearing the ring, perhaps thunder without noise, of analogies and polarities of her
materials and shapes. As a hidden source text one can repeatedly find poems and texts by Michel Serres, Paul Celan or Lioba Happel that lie behind Myriam Holme’s work as a collection. In structural terms, Myriam Holme’s working method is similar to concrete poetry, the juxtaposition and superimposition of word images and landscapes, which are translated back into her titles such as noch ungezeigte zeit (yet unshown time), schwingendeserinnern (swingingremembering) or tagenthobene nacht (night relieved of day).
Since 2009 the ongoing collaboration with composer Ralf Haarmann has been based on this
delicate retracing of possible spaces of meaning. He collects tones and sounds made by the most various materials, plays text passages with actors to then insert them as sound collages into subsequent concerts. Compositions are reduced to what is essential, short moments are expanded to arrive at utmost concentration on details. In the framework of the current show, Ralf Haarmann will present at 8 pm a variation of the sound piece fürsichstehend (standing for itself), which was previously played on and in her installation at the LWL-Landesmuseum Münster now newly assembled to a collage as umgeben von Stille (surrounded by silence) for and with donnerloser wucht (thunderless force).
von donnerloser wucht (with thunderless force)
3 July - 27 August, 2011
Spatial collage: Steel sheets, attached to form a space-filling surface, push through the existing wall in the back section of the gallery. Temporal collage: Exposed to water for a longer period of time during the working process, brown to black rust rivulets now form rivers or lakes and dissolve the grey of the steel surface. Fixed with a layer of transparent varnish, they simultaneously mark a formal choreography of the space. The materiality that can now be perceived detaches itself from the temporal process of corroding steel, and the viewer stands in Myriam Holme’s abstract stage composition von donnerloser wucht (of thunderless force). While in the previous space-pictures, rough glass cliffs were an elementary component alongside aluminium, what we now see is a visual ping-pong game in the emptiness of the gaps between variously folded and bent aluminium objects bearing collages of flowing corrosive fluid, varnish and paper.
The visible hearing the ring, perhaps thunder without noise, of analogies and polarities of her
materials and shapes. As a hidden source text one can repeatedly find poems and texts by Michel Serres, Paul Celan or Lioba Happel that lie behind Myriam Holme’s work as a collection. In structural terms, Myriam Holme’s working method is similar to concrete poetry, the juxtaposition and superimposition of word images and landscapes, which are translated back into her titles such as noch ungezeigte zeit (yet unshown time), schwingendeserinnern (swingingremembering) or tagenthobene nacht (night relieved of day).
Since 2009 the ongoing collaboration with composer Ralf Haarmann has been based on this
delicate retracing of possible spaces of meaning. He collects tones and sounds made by the most various materials, plays text passages with actors to then insert them as sound collages into subsequent concerts. Compositions are reduced to what is essential, short moments are expanded to arrive at utmost concentration on details. In the framework of the current show, Ralf Haarmann will present at 8 pm a variation of the sound piece fürsichstehend (standing for itself), which was previously played on and in her installation at the LWL-Landesmuseum Münster now newly assembled to a collage as umgeben von Stille (surrounded by silence) for and with donnerloser wucht (thunderless force).