"Bastarde" - Regine Müller-Waldeck / Adrian Sauer
13 May - 17 Jun 2006
Regine Müller-Waldeck deals with the emotional subject that oscillates between brutality, coercion and the simultaneous will to free development and absolute autonomy. The wax of which she forms her works is a thoughtfully chosen and consequently applied material: keros - the Greek translation for wax - also signifies in other contexts 'fate' and 'death'. Yet, it is an unconditional and intuitive clinging to life that figures in the 'timeless' character of her sculptures and paraffin-soaked objects.
At the same time the futility and oftentimes senselessness of these endeavors reveal. Regine Müller-Waldeck does not intend to put her finger on any social dark spot or to even hint to any global tilt. It is rather the moment of tilting, the situation shortly after the diagnosis of hopelessness that she locates on all levels and especially on an individual level. Her works express a feeling of dignity that seems to particularly unfold in an aura of melancholy and vulnerability.
In his new compositions of photography Adrian Sauer leads the common ideas of reality and immediacy astray. Starting from apparently set photographic depictions, he constructs by means of digitally generated color and surface his own pictorial universe. He systematically disrupts the banality of the depicted objects – architecture, furniture or the motif of a postcard – by the personal editing act. A deferred conception emancipates that enables a new perspective on the photographic image and its connotations.
Current works of Regine Müller-Waldeck and Adrian Sauer will be shown in the frame of the exhibition 'Photo Traffic' at the Bâtiment d’art contemporain (Mamco, Geneva) from June 9th until August 13th. Being the laureate of the Sachsen LB stipend 2006 Regine Müller-Waldeck will be additionally presented in a solo exhibition at the GFZK-Leipzig
Opening hours are Tue - Sat 11- 18 h
At the same time the futility and oftentimes senselessness of these endeavors reveal. Regine Müller-Waldeck does not intend to put her finger on any social dark spot or to even hint to any global tilt. It is rather the moment of tilting, the situation shortly after the diagnosis of hopelessness that she locates on all levels and especially on an individual level. Her works express a feeling of dignity that seems to particularly unfold in an aura of melancholy and vulnerability.
In his new compositions of photography Adrian Sauer leads the common ideas of reality and immediacy astray. Starting from apparently set photographic depictions, he constructs by means of digitally generated color and surface his own pictorial universe. He systematically disrupts the banality of the depicted objects – architecture, furniture or the motif of a postcard – by the personal editing act. A deferred conception emancipates that enables a new perspective on the photographic image and its connotations.
Current works of Regine Müller-Waldeck and Adrian Sauer will be shown in the frame of the exhibition 'Photo Traffic' at the Bâtiment d’art contemporain (Mamco, Geneva) from June 9th until August 13th. Being the laureate of the Sachsen LB stipend 2006 Regine Müller-Waldeck will be additionally presented in a solo exhibition at the GFZK-Leipzig
Opening hours are Tue - Sat 11- 18 h