Between NOTHINGNESS AND ETERNITY
Gregor Hildebrandt - Olaf Holzapfel - Alicja Kwade - Daniel Lergon - Jorinde Voigt - Ralf Ziervogel - Bert Wrede
Curated by Peter Lang
Regina Gallery, 22 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DE
10th September – 6th October 2010
Private View: Thursday 9th September 2010
Berlin is a place where East and West meet. The city’s dislocations, its traces, new spaces and dynamics form a historically and culturally unique vortex in Europe. In conceiving their work, the seven Berlin-based artists showing in Between Nothingness and Eternity at REGINA GALLERY LONDON have drawn on this unique atmosphere. The artistic carriers of the city’s development, they represent some of the most exciting positions to emerge from its evolving cultural scene.
RALPH ZIERVOGEL is a hugely talented, apocalyptical draftsman who first attracted international attention with his Dantesque figure cycles. The drawings included in this exhibition are composed of near-invisible dots coalescing into clusters that suggest cosmological patterns. In DANIEL LERGON’s site-specific wall drawing, the simplest of materials such as earth and metal combine to evoke the breath of time. In GREGOR HILDEBRANDT’s work, sound is encapsulated as the auratic, romantic trace of obsolete recording devices such as cassettes and reel-to-reel recorders, whose magnetic tape is transformed into images of long-gone sounds, melodies forever captured. ALICJA KWADE recreates the universe from two plain office lamps staring at each other through a mirror. The reciprocal reflection, and subsequent annulment, of the two light beams results in a striking image of endlessness. JORINDE VOIGT’s charts seek to map places of unknown origins and dimensions by means of graphic notations, abstract measurements of unstable worlds. OLAF HOLZAPFEL constructs networks that aggregate into three-dimensional installations, transcriptions of spatial dimensions whose folded surfaces are gridded with the imprint of latticework. The Berlin-based composer BERT WERDE invests the gallery space with a musical score, an amorphous composition that takes its cue from the starting point of the exhibition: Between Nothingness and Eternity.
Living and working in Berlin, these artists travel the world to exhibit their work. Accordingly, their practice is concerned with notions of time, imaginary places, territories, landscapes and spaces. While certain works in this exhibition investigate the multiple dimensions between macro- and microcosm, others are more closely related to soundscapes. Avoiding illustration or linear narrative, they enshrine numerous layers of meaning that extend beyond their stringent form. In this sense they are timeless and placeless, speaking an international idiom that knowingly incorporates its origins and transcends issues of nationality to adopt a more encompassing vision. The questions they ask are formally answered by the works themselves: Where do we come from, where do we go? What are our coordinates in time and space?
Press Release:
http://www.reginagallery.com/exhibitions/between_nothingness_and_eternity
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