OBSCURA PATINA Tania Bedriñana | Sun-Ju Kim
Vernissage: Friday, September 5, 2014, 7:30 PM
Visual art can sometimes express more than words ever could. It can explore moods and intuitions in a much more nuanced and subtle way than language, which often settles too quickly into fixed meanings and tends toward clarity. It can create gaps, keep statements deliberately ambiguous, pose riddles to the viewer, and at the same time captivate them. The exhibition OBSCURA PATINA at Kunstverein Neukölln brings together such works: Two artists from different cultural backgrounds present paintings, drawings, and sculptures that navigate the space between the conscious and the unconscious, memory and dream, and testify to the search for an invisible world behind the visible.
Tania Bedriñana explores the human body in its artistic emergence, vulnerability, and transience. Through her painting, she delves into the elusive inner experiences and external events that leave almost imperceptible traces on body and soul. By layering and revealing individual coats of paint, she brings forth hidden images and captures their physicality before they disappear again. The result is paintings with the vague yet precise consistency of a dream.
Sun-Ju Kim focuses on a series of charcoal drawings depicting the "silent experiences" that accompany every person unnoticed, shaping and coloring their lives. These are "forgotten memories" that elude intellectual engagement and rational understanding, only to be sensed at best. Emerging circles symbolize full moons as empty mirrors of the past. The fascination of the suspended is revealed here as well.
Curated by Susann Kramer
Thursday, September 25, 2014, 7:30 PM Projections curated by Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy
"With kind support from the Department of Culture of the Neukölln District Office in Berlin."
Friday, September 26, 2014, 6 to 10 PM Art Grain 2014 – Art Walk through Körnerkiez
Sunday, October 5, 2014, 7:30 PM Finissage with artist talk and drawing of the art lottery