Earthly Delights, Tape Modern No.11
25 - 27 Sep 2009
Earthly Delights, Tape Modern No.11
Curated by Anna Erickson
In cooperation with Heidestrasse galleries and Halle am Wasser
Kenno Apatrida
Awst & Walther
Hannes Bend
Amir Fattal
Nir Hod
Filippos Kavakas
Angela Liosi
John Miserendino
Cornelia Renz
Sophie Rheinhold
Antonio Santín
Torsten Solin
Vincent Wenzel
Earthly Delights
Tape Modern No.11
Curated by Anna Erickson
Opening: Friday September 25th 6pm-3am
In Cooperation with Heidestrasse galleries and Halle am Wasser
Exhibition duration: Saturday September 26th and Sunday September 27th 11am-6pm.
Location: TAPE, Heidestrasse 14. 10557 BERLIN S-BHF
Tape Modern is pleased to announce a group exhibition entitled Earthly
Delights.
Featuring the work of 13 artists, Earthly Delights takes its name from
Hieronymus Bosch’s iconic painting from 1503, The Garden of Earthly
Delights, which depicts across three panels God presenting his
creation of Adam and Eve, a bacchanal orgy of humans, hybrid creatures
and otherworldly animals and, finally, a hellscape in which eternal
suffering and damnation are portrayed in terrifying scenes of torture
and anguish. Considered by many to represent a sequential narrative of
mankind’s initial state of purity in Eden, subsequent corruption and
ultimate punishment in Hell, Bosch’s work builds on symbolic systems
that reference alchemy, astrology, heresy and the recesses of the
human psyche to form a complex pantheon of desire and depravity that
is consistently acclaimed as one of the most significant artistic
achievements ever created. The painting is viewed as a moral warning
against lust and worldly pleasure and has been described as "an erotic
derangement that turns us all into voyeurs."
The work presented in Earthly Delights is a contemporary
interpretation of the prevailing themes encompassed by Bosch’s
masterpiece. The Berlin-based artist duo Awst & Walther invoke
original sin with their piece Temptation, while Hannes Bend’s
life-size candy sculpture, a composite of both male and female
anatomy, references the hybrid forms rendered in Bosch’s central
panel. Torsten Solin’s absurd dream-like landscapes are both sexually
provocative and utterly grotesque, while Vincent Wenzel presents
Freakfries, a masterpiece large-scale painting depicting the chaos of
the subconscious. John Miserendino creates a modern day and abstracted
version of The Triumph of Death from 1562 by Peter Brueghel the Elder
which resides in the Prado Museum directly across from The Garden of
Earthly Delights. Angela Liosi creates tiny diorama scenes of violence
and murder and Antonio Santin and Sophie Reinhold portray the darker
side of humanity in their paintings. Kenno Apatrida will produce a
performance specifically for the exhibition during the opening on
Friday September 25 using death masks and the nude female body in a
bacchanalia tribute to Hieronymus Bosch.
The main hall of Tape will be specially transformed into an exhibition
space and burlesque club with a bar. In addition to the exhibition
there will be a separate party in the club starting at 11pm.
Earthly Delights will feature work from the following artists; Kenno
Apatrida , Awst & Walther, Hannes Bend, Amir Fattal, Nir Hod, Filippos
Kavakas, Angela Liosi, John Miserendino, Cornelia Renz, Sophie
Reinhold, Antonio Santin, Torsten Solin, and Vincent Wenzel.
The exhibition is curated by Anna Erickson, private art dealer living
and working in Berlin and New York, former sales director for Gagosian
Gallery, New York and former Director of Yvon Lambert, New York.
Erickson has a BA in Art History and MA in Art Administration.
Curated by Anna Erickson
In cooperation with Heidestrasse galleries and Halle am Wasser
Kenno Apatrida
Awst & Walther
Hannes Bend
Amir Fattal
Nir Hod
Filippos Kavakas
Angela Liosi
John Miserendino
Cornelia Renz
Sophie Rheinhold
Antonio Santín
Torsten Solin
Vincent Wenzel
Earthly Delights
Tape Modern No.11
Curated by Anna Erickson
Opening: Friday September 25th 6pm-3am
In Cooperation with Heidestrasse galleries and Halle am Wasser
Exhibition duration: Saturday September 26th and Sunday September 27th 11am-6pm.
Location: TAPE, Heidestrasse 14. 10557 BERLIN S-BHF
Tape Modern is pleased to announce a group exhibition entitled Earthly
Delights.
Featuring the work of 13 artists, Earthly Delights takes its name from
Hieronymus Bosch’s iconic painting from 1503, The Garden of Earthly
Delights, which depicts across three panels God presenting his
creation of Adam and Eve, a bacchanal orgy of humans, hybrid creatures
and otherworldly animals and, finally, a hellscape in which eternal
suffering and damnation are portrayed in terrifying scenes of torture
and anguish. Considered by many to represent a sequential narrative of
mankind’s initial state of purity in Eden, subsequent corruption and
ultimate punishment in Hell, Bosch’s work builds on symbolic systems
that reference alchemy, astrology, heresy and the recesses of the
human psyche to form a complex pantheon of desire and depravity that
is consistently acclaimed as one of the most significant artistic
achievements ever created. The painting is viewed as a moral warning
against lust and worldly pleasure and has been described as "an erotic
derangement that turns us all into voyeurs."
The work presented in Earthly Delights is a contemporary
interpretation of the prevailing themes encompassed by Bosch’s
masterpiece. The Berlin-based artist duo Awst & Walther invoke
original sin with their piece Temptation, while Hannes Bend’s
life-size candy sculpture, a composite of both male and female
anatomy, references the hybrid forms rendered in Bosch’s central
panel. Torsten Solin’s absurd dream-like landscapes are both sexually
provocative and utterly grotesque, while Vincent Wenzel presents
Freakfries, a masterpiece large-scale painting depicting the chaos of
the subconscious. John Miserendino creates a modern day and abstracted
version of The Triumph of Death from 1562 by Peter Brueghel the Elder
which resides in the Prado Museum directly across from The Garden of
Earthly Delights. Angela Liosi creates tiny diorama scenes of violence
and murder and Antonio Santin and Sophie Reinhold portray the darker
side of humanity in their paintings. Kenno Apatrida will produce a
performance specifically for the exhibition during the opening on
Friday September 25 using death masks and the nude female body in a
bacchanalia tribute to Hieronymus Bosch.
The main hall of Tape will be specially transformed into an exhibition
space and burlesque club with a bar. In addition to the exhibition
there will be a separate party in the club starting at 11pm.
Earthly Delights will feature work from the following artists; Kenno
Apatrida , Awst & Walther, Hannes Bend, Amir Fattal, Nir Hod, Filippos
Kavakas, Angela Liosi, John Miserendino, Cornelia Renz, Sophie
Reinhold, Antonio Santin, Torsten Solin, and Vincent Wenzel.
The exhibition is curated by Anna Erickson, private art dealer living
and working in Berlin and New York, former sales director for Gagosian
Gallery, New York and former Director of Yvon Lambert, New York.
Erickson has a BA in Art History and MA in Art Administration.