Hanne Darboven, Matt Mullican, Dan Peterman
19 Feb - 08 Mar 2008
Hanne Darboven, Matt Mullican, Dan Peterman
Klosterfelde Gallery is very happy to announce an exhibition with three large-scale works by Hanne Darboven, Matt Mullican and Dan Peterman. Even though the artists belong to different generations and contexts, the exhibited works have much more in common than roughly the same production time:
All works stem from between 1988 and 1996.
In Hanne Darboven's piece Hommage an meinen Vater from 1988, the artist formulates a personal dedication to her father, spread out on 192 sheets with ink and collaged black and white photographs. Her obsessive writing turns into a process of notating time and transitoriness.
Matt Mullican's Untitled (4 glass windows), 1990, consists of four large windows with embedded ornaments made of lead. Leaning against the gallery wall, the windows create a model-like relation to the architecture of the space. The abstract pictorial elements are taken out of Mullican`s cosmology, his very personal archive of images and signs.
Dan Peterman 4-Ton Vertical Storage, 1996, moves along the line between functional furniture and installational sculpture. Approximately 700 stacking and nesting storage boxes made of recycled, post-consumer plastic fill out the gallery wall in units of 24 which corresponds to the annual plastic consumption of one person in the year 1996.
It is the aesthetic references of Minimal and Concept Art - the seriality, the grid, the principles of repetition and addition, as well as the overall reduction in colour and materiality - that are connecting the individual works of this exhibition. At the same time the Minimalist claim for universality and neutrality is here abandoned in favour of subjectivist, poetic and/or socially engaged approaches. The works address appealing interrelations between space, ornament, materiality and iconography.
Fur further information or images please contact the gallery.
exhibition: 19th of February - 8th of March 2008
opening hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays 11 – 6 pm and by appointment
Klosterfelde Gallery is very happy to announce an exhibition with three large-scale works by Hanne Darboven, Matt Mullican and Dan Peterman. Even though the artists belong to different generations and contexts, the exhibited works have much more in common than roughly the same production time:
All works stem from between 1988 and 1996.
In Hanne Darboven's piece Hommage an meinen Vater from 1988, the artist formulates a personal dedication to her father, spread out on 192 sheets with ink and collaged black and white photographs. Her obsessive writing turns into a process of notating time and transitoriness.
Matt Mullican's Untitled (4 glass windows), 1990, consists of four large windows with embedded ornaments made of lead. Leaning against the gallery wall, the windows create a model-like relation to the architecture of the space. The abstract pictorial elements are taken out of Mullican`s cosmology, his very personal archive of images and signs.
Dan Peterman 4-Ton Vertical Storage, 1996, moves along the line between functional furniture and installational sculpture. Approximately 700 stacking and nesting storage boxes made of recycled, post-consumer plastic fill out the gallery wall in units of 24 which corresponds to the annual plastic consumption of one person in the year 1996.
It is the aesthetic references of Minimal and Concept Art - the seriality, the grid, the principles of repetition and addition, as well as the overall reduction in colour and materiality - that are connecting the individual works of this exhibition. At the same time the Minimalist claim for universality and neutrality is here abandoned in favour of subjectivist, poetic and/or socially engaged approaches. The works address appealing interrelations between space, ornament, materiality and iconography.
Fur further information or images please contact the gallery.
exhibition: 19th of February - 8th of March 2008
opening hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays 11 – 6 pm and by appointment