Claudia & Julia Müller
26 Apr - 25 May 2012
CLAUDIA & JULIA MÜLLER
26 April - 25 May 2012
The gallery’s project spaces are dedicated to new works of Claudia and Julia Müller. The sisters have been collaborating since 1992 and are renowned for their complex wall drawings, installations, works on paper, and video pieces. In their artistic work, Claudia and Julia Müller are on the outlook for opposite and contradictory imageries, which they combine to create fantastic pictorial worlds. Their works often deal with human relationships and power structures. The light-footedness with which they combine various visual elements and techniques is a signature quality of these two artists.
Claudia and Julia Müller will present works from their most recent series Ding an sich, 2012, in which they focus on the theme of “nothing” or “no thing”. With their colorful drawings (acrylic and pencil on paper and canvas, 63,5x48,5 cm), the artist duo goes in search of the moment of creation in the artistic process, in which something takes form without yet being fully shaped. Paired with black and white photographs, the works on paper suggest forms and figures without articulating them. In consequence, the works appear to be in a perpetual shift between form and abstraction. When speaking about their work process, Claudia and Julia Müller note that they are on a constant lookout for patterns. The artists find these in the psychology of behavior, theory models or content structures, but also in optic repetitions and visual schemes.
Concepts and counter-concepts are central to the three large and six smaller works from the second new series “Habitus versus Habitat” that are shown in the rear exhibition room. Opposites dominate in these pictures, and concepts that are in conflict to each other, such as the Carnivor and Herbivor (acrylic and pencil on paper, framed 32x23,5 cm). Not only do plant-eating herbivores keep a different diet to meat-eating carnivores, they may become a food source themselves as the case may be. According to one’s angle of view the herbivore becomes subject or object, the eater or the food. The ambiguous figure of the herbivore compactly illustrates how definition is dependent on hierarchy.
26 April - 25 May 2012
The gallery’s project spaces are dedicated to new works of Claudia and Julia Müller. The sisters have been collaborating since 1992 and are renowned for their complex wall drawings, installations, works on paper, and video pieces. In their artistic work, Claudia and Julia Müller are on the outlook for opposite and contradictory imageries, which they combine to create fantastic pictorial worlds. Their works often deal with human relationships and power structures. The light-footedness with which they combine various visual elements and techniques is a signature quality of these two artists.
Claudia and Julia Müller will present works from their most recent series Ding an sich, 2012, in which they focus on the theme of “nothing” or “no thing”. With their colorful drawings (acrylic and pencil on paper and canvas, 63,5x48,5 cm), the artist duo goes in search of the moment of creation in the artistic process, in which something takes form without yet being fully shaped. Paired with black and white photographs, the works on paper suggest forms and figures without articulating them. In consequence, the works appear to be in a perpetual shift between form and abstraction. When speaking about their work process, Claudia and Julia Müller note that they are on a constant lookout for patterns. The artists find these in the psychology of behavior, theory models or content structures, but also in optic repetitions and visual schemes.
Concepts and counter-concepts are central to the three large and six smaller works from the second new series “Habitus versus Habitat” that are shown in the rear exhibition room. Opposites dominate in these pictures, and concepts that are in conflict to each other, such as the Carnivor and Herbivor (acrylic and pencil on paper, framed 32x23,5 cm). Not only do plant-eating herbivores keep a different diet to meat-eating carnivores, they may become a food source themselves as the case may be. According to one’s angle of view the herbivore becomes subject or object, the eater or the food. The ambiguous figure of the herbivore compactly illustrates how definition is dependent on hierarchy.