SANDRA VÁSQUEZ DE LA HORRA
14 Sep - 03 Nov 2007
SANDRA VÁSQUEZ DE LA HORRA
"Impossible Mind"
Deamons and ghosts, creatures of myths and gloomy dreams are shown on the small-sized drawings of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (born in Viña del Mar, Chile, 1967) in the Kewenig Galerie. The paintress draws a bizarre world of visions on paper which is coated with a layer of wax.
The artist, who studied under Rosemarie Trockel and Jannis Kounellis in Düsseldorf, precisely records instantaneous images of her own memories as well as universal experiences which appear ecstatic, traumatic and surrealistic. She turns impulses of her experiences with the military dictatorship of Pinochet, with being introduced to Latin-American literature, religiousness and mythology into drawings. Furthermore she also copies from films, comics, fairy tales, botanic and zoologic textbooks.
On her various journeys the drawings – as in a pictorial diary - emerge from her very personal as well as from universal impressions. The small-sized drawings can be easily stowed away in the artist's luggage, as Sandra Vásquez de la Horra herself states quite pragmatically but they also allow her to present them – arranged in clusters – in a sinister but still queer cosmos of images. A surge of deeply symbolic, archaic appearing single motifs assail the beholder when entering the exhibition.
The smallness of the mythical creatures, victims of torture, religiously and libidinously motivated figures, which are accomplished in great detail and to which writing is sometimes added, do not overwhelm the beholder – they do not appear obscene or to be straining after effect, they are rather reminiscent of your own memories, dreams and experiences. The interaction of symbols from history, religion and culture is all-consuming and fills the room with very personal but also universally valid experiences of human life.
"Impossible Mind"
Deamons and ghosts, creatures of myths and gloomy dreams are shown on the small-sized drawings of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (born in Viña del Mar, Chile, 1967) in the Kewenig Galerie. The paintress draws a bizarre world of visions on paper which is coated with a layer of wax.
The artist, who studied under Rosemarie Trockel and Jannis Kounellis in Düsseldorf, precisely records instantaneous images of her own memories as well as universal experiences which appear ecstatic, traumatic and surrealistic. She turns impulses of her experiences with the military dictatorship of Pinochet, with being introduced to Latin-American literature, religiousness and mythology into drawings. Furthermore she also copies from films, comics, fairy tales, botanic and zoologic textbooks.
On her various journeys the drawings – as in a pictorial diary - emerge from her very personal as well as from universal impressions. The small-sized drawings can be easily stowed away in the artist's luggage, as Sandra Vásquez de la Horra herself states quite pragmatically but they also allow her to present them – arranged in clusters – in a sinister but still queer cosmos of images. A surge of deeply symbolic, archaic appearing single motifs assail the beholder when entering the exhibition.
The smallness of the mythical creatures, victims of torture, religiously and libidinously motivated figures, which are accomplished in great detail and to which writing is sometimes added, do not overwhelm the beholder – they do not appear obscene or to be straining after effect, they are rather reminiscent of your own memories, dreams and experiences. The interaction of symbols from history, religion and culture is all-consuming and fills the room with very personal but also universally valid experiences of human life.