Group Show:
Yasmin Alt, Sebastian Biskup, Kai Franz
OPENING: September 08th, 2016, 7–9pm
DURATION: September 09th, 2016 – November 12th, 2016
Performance by artist Elana Katz: October 13th, 2016, 7pm
Guided Tour: November 05th, 2016, 3pm
ROCKELMANN & is proud to present the group show Triptych for its season opening. Triptych’s purpose is to explore the alternative uses of materials and functioning concepts we overlook or take for granted in our daily lives. Through traditional art practices, western culture often encourages us to stay on one steady path and not to stray from accepted practice. The artists Yasmin Alt, Sebastian Biskup and Kai Franz’s varying practices all include ‘hacks’ of sorts; from Alt’s repurposing of timber from flooring to abstract sculptures, to Biskup’s digital breakdown of art historical pieces and their color grouping on self-modified software and ending with Franz’s unnatural figures created by the reconfiguration of a 3D printer, each artist dared to stray from the path of “traditional practice” and to challenge the idea of traditional structures. Each artist dares to ask the question; Do things really have to exist just as they are?
Think of, if you will, a traditional triptych from the renaissance; held together by hinges, artists were able to create a new narrative by physically linking together three very different works. For ROCKELMANN&, this concept extends beyond just the physical and finds new shape in the theoretical. In Triptych’s case this means that the reconfiguration of artistic construction, the shifting of traditional practices into new media work and redefining the very idea of artistic structures . For the three artists, shifting practices have meant that they’ve had to bend the rules to acquire their visions and in doing so have created new ways to repurpose older techniques to create new dialogues with art history, in the fields of art theory, and even architecture.
In Alt’s case her sculpture’s graphic shapes give rise to sculptural form albeit in a way that repurposes not just the materials but also typical structural methods, Biskup’s work contrasts from defined shapes with his focus on color and the calculation of color fields that lead to the creation of grand color wheels and as for Franz, algorithmic sequences that have been computed and and borrowed from 3D printing techniques in order to instruct the artist into crafting semi-unauthored shapes and objects, thus completely bending the rules of traditional sculpture and fusing them together with a Dadaesque approach to technology.
We cordially invite you to join us for the opening of this exciting group show, with a reception taking place on September 08th at 7pm. We also further extend our welcome for viewers to attend a new performance by artist Elana Katz on October 13th. Katz has composed a new presentation exclusively for ROCKELMANN& titled YOU ON VIEW, which deals with mirrors as a material. The piece will contemplate the mirror as a tool of shielding protection, a subject/ object of the narcissistic gaze, as well as a device used to deform and render a state of invisibility. Katz’s action and resulting installation extends and calls into question conventional western perception and use of the mirror as an object of accurate representation.
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