Events/Openings

Galerija Gregor Podnar is pleased to present Alexander Gutke’s fourth solo exhibition in Berlin.

Consisting of a series of sculptures, a film installation, a film sculpture, and a wall painting, the exhibition continues Gutke’s investigation into the illusive nature and the materiality of cinema, while adding more than a few spins on language, space and our perception thereof. Indeed, in virtually every work, the elasticity of space, real or imagined, seen or heard, is either hinted at, embodied, or metaphorically and literally represented.

The wall painting, Silver Lining (2016), which lends its name to the exhibition and which literally consists of a silver, painted line framing a vacant space of wall, conflates the space of metaphor with actual space, while a new series of sculptures, comprised of different colored puddles of blue can be found throughout the show. The shades of blue refer to automotive paints– Big Sky Blue; Bleu Weekend; Gunmetal Blue; True Blue– and have been selected by the artist by virtue of being evocative of cinema (as if they could be titles to films). The strange and entrancing film installation A Breeze (2016) creates an unlikely correlation between the visual and the sonic, in that the projection of the unfolding of an iconic lace fan corresponds to the increasing volume of a bustling cityscape, and as such introduces an all but unbounded sense of urban space through the demurest of gestures. Lastly, the filmic sculpture, Looking Glass (2016) is an animation transferred to 35mm film, which is viewed through a magnifying glass connected to a 35mm projector itself. The animation consists of a molecular journey into and out of, as if through a piece of celluloid, thus creating a journey that simultaneously compresses and expands space.