About Blank I
15 Mar - 26 Apr 2014
ABOUT BLANK I
Philip Hausmeier, Miriam Jonas, Sophia Pompéry, Jan Vormann, Sebastian Winkler
15 March – 26 April 2014
A new pilot project About Blank that shows positions by young artists from Germany will be launched by the Gallery Gebr. Lehmann Berlin on 14th of March 2014.
As various as the works by the five artists are, they all focus on the issues of visuality, perception, space, form, material and imagination. They present usual objects in absolutely new conditions, challenge the standard patterns of artistic composition and are constantly seeking for new definitions, for a new start from a blank page – it’s about blank.
The conceptual and minimalistic artworks are saturated by the unique poetics that constantly raise questions concerning the self, surrounding, perception and artistic expression.
Our visual habits and process of perception are the main interest of Philip Hausmeier. His objects create a new space within the one they are situated in. They deform perspectives, appear as interfering fields and irritate the gaze. The hologrammatic surfaces of the hemispheres Nowhere to be Nothing to see I and II and the cube Nothing to see Nowhere to be (Gothenburg Cube) make the viewer see the space that actually doesn’ t exist. They produce an imaginary depth, which in fact derives from the real surroundings.
The works by Miriam Jonas make the familiar things relative. She creates realities, in which objects and materials break out of their boarders, dissolve their standard functions and appear in a different light. The space is also an important category, like in the work Fokus in which a massive tiles relief interacts with its surroundings and develops a parallel space within its own surface. The connection of material, form and acoustical presence makes up the focus of the works Fuge I and Fuge II.
In her artistic work, Sophia Pompéry regularly takes reference to the medium of painting without actually using it. She applies the phenomenon of movement, mirror ef fects, physical laws and digital technologies to evoke new visual and special impressions. The perceptual delusion of ten plays a great role. The work Transient Shade alienates the reflection in the mirror be means of light spots, produced by a liquid crystal display. The work group Und Punkt of fers an extremely close view at the final full spots of great romantic novels. The graphic sign is raised to the object of painting and appears in its explicitly symbolic function.
Jan Vormann creates in his installation an unusual connection of natural materials with mechanic constructions. The artist reaches deep into the structure of elements and places them into an often socially critical context. The Self-Portrait (Countdown) undertakes a humanization of a machine. The cogwheels made of sandstone will gradually wear of f and thus one day they won’ t work anymore. A certain end point is preprogrammed in this construction so that it becomes mortal just as every human body is. The Soapbubble-live-extension-machine 4 claims a devotion to infinity. Inserted into a box, a soap bubble is being kept alive in an almost brutal way. A weightless bubble is submitted to the human will that takes away its freedom together with its short lifetime.
Objects and materials in the works by Sebastian Winkler convey memories and emotions. A certain moment of experience is retained in the artwork, and the substance gives an access to this world of thoughts. Installations, arranged under the influence of architectonical aesthetics, open up the space that is situated between the materially existing and the associatively imagined parts. In the sculpture Entledigung the physical presence of materials communicates the idea of a house that in fact is not there.
Philip Hausmeier, Miriam Jonas, Sophia Pompéry, Jan Vormann, Sebastian Winkler
15 March – 26 April 2014
A new pilot project About Blank that shows positions by young artists from Germany will be launched by the Gallery Gebr. Lehmann Berlin on 14th of March 2014.
As various as the works by the five artists are, they all focus on the issues of visuality, perception, space, form, material and imagination. They present usual objects in absolutely new conditions, challenge the standard patterns of artistic composition and are constantly seeking for new definitions, for a new start from a blank page – it’s about blank.
The conceptual and minimalistic artworks are saturated by the unique poetics that constantly raise questions concerning the self, surrounding, perception and artistic expression.
Our visual habits and process of perception are the main interest of Philip Hausmeier. His objects create a new space within the one they are situated in. They deform perspectives, appear as interfering fields and irritate the gaze. The hologrammatic surfaces of the hemispheres Nowhere to be Nothing to see I and II and the cube Nothing to see Nowhere to be (Gothenburg Cube) make the viewer see the space that actually doesn’ t exist. They produce an imaginary depth, which in fact derives from the real surroundings.
The works by Miriam Jonas make the familiar things relative. She creates realities, in which objects and materials break out of their boarders, dissolve their standard functions and appear in a different light. The space is also an important category, like in the work Fokus in which a massive tiles relief interacts with its surroundings and develops a parallel space within its own surface. The connection of material, form and acoustical presence makes up the focus of the works Fuge I and Fuge II.
In her artistic work, Sophia Pompéry regularly takes reference to the medium of painting without actually using it. She applies the phenomenon of movement, mirror ef fects, physical laws and digital technologies to evoke new visual and special impressions. The perceptual delusion of ten plays a great role. The work Transient Shade alienates the reflection in the mirror be means of light spots, produced by a liquid crystal display. The work group Und Punkt of fers an extremely close view at the final full spots of great romantic novels. The graphic sign is raised to the object of painting and appears in its explicitly symbolic function.
Jan Vormann creates in his installation an unusual connection of natural materials with mechanic constructions. The artist reaches deep into the structure of elements and places them into an often socially critical context. The Self-Portrait (Countdown) undertakes a humanization of a machine. The cogwheels made of sandstone will gradually wear of f and thus one day they won’ t work anymore. A certain end point is preprogrammed in this construction so that it becomes mortal just as every human body is. The Soapbubble-live-extension-machine 4 claims a devotion to infinity. Inserted into a box, a soap bubble is being kept alive in an almost brutal way. A weightless bubble is submitted to the human will that takes away its freedom together with its short lifetime.
Objects and materials in the works by Sebastian Winkler convey memories and emotions. A certain moment of experience is retained in the artwork, and the substance gives an access to this world of thoughts. Installations, arranged under the influence of architectonical aesthetics, open up the space that is situated between the materially existing and the associatively imagined parts. In the sculpture Entledigung the physical presence of materials communicates the idea of a house that in fact is not there.