Events/Openings

"In the Mirror of Myself" describes the mindset which might be one of the major motivations of being an artist and of creating art as a process of self reflection. At the same time that title expresses the lonesomeness of the dialogue of the artist while the process of creation. That is why we picked 6 artists whose work is beyond narration moving in an abstract field of interrogation.

Ignacio Uriarte is questioning the simplest idea of artistic expression by simple forms. In one of the three small video pieces he is redrawing a horizontal 8 as the sign for endless. Each of the "endless" signs are different and doing the same thing over and over it has an endless number of variations. At the other end the Munich based draughtsmen German Stegmaier is starting his drawings from a simple form that appears interesting. In the process of drawing the lines develop themselves in a kind of evolutionary process, some older lines become erased, the paper formate changes by adding or cutting. At the end of this drawing process, which sometimes goes for more then three or four years, the drawing becomes a complex system on its own, reduced in tender and fragile pencil traces.

The sculptures of the NY based artist Heather Rowe can be read also as a carefully composed system of three dimensional networks of references. With poor materials, like wood, tapestry, drywall, glass and mirrors she is building three dimensional pieces that work like psychological kaleidoscopes. Looking on her mirror pieces, is reflecting fragments of the sculpture and its environment, but only very rare the viewers perspective. The work of the Berlin based artist Michael Just is more conceptual based and his work "Meanings Surface" questions the ambivalence of reception and conception. Sabrina Jung, who graduated in Düsseldorf in the class of Peter Doig in 2010, is pursuing a fine balance between illusion of perspective and structure and a total abstract composition. Her paintings are a challenge for the viewer, as the are wide open, but at the same time of intimacy and vulnerability. Last but not least the Brooklyn based sculptor Yuri Masnyj, whose self ironic and funny comment "Inside Out" transfers a common interior into and absurd, but autonomous three dimensional comment on being an artist.