Vernissage/Ausstellung "Ambivalent"
In the exhibition "Ambivalent," three artists present their works that explore contrasting feelings, thoughts, and statements. Each of them grapples with profound questions that often slip to the margins of society in the pursuit of lightness. Manipulation, mental illness, death, and the aspect of perspective are themes that the artists delve into in their pieces.
Opening on October 31, 2012, at 7:00 PM, the exhibition runs from November 1 to November 13, 2014, during the gallery's opening hours.
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Alessandra Senso (Italy) Her works are dominated by rough materials such as paper, cardboard, and old books.
Blending with a manga aesthetic, she creates surreal worlds that are sometimes joyful and sometimes dark, where science fiction and reality merge.
In the series "Death Dance," she addresses how we deal with death on a daily basis. Death is the protagonist of these works. Everyone knows him, yet we only encounter him once in our lives. He is a part of us that we often ignore, even though we know he is always with us. Sweet and loyal like a dog, independent and wise like a cat. We are accustomed to spectacular representations of death and are confronted with dying every day. He is tattooed on our skin and in our souls.
Jokke Kreutziger (Germany) In 2000, he lived in Toronto and was a student of the painter and illustrator Stéphane Poulin. Today, he lives and works as an artist and illustrator in Berlin. Additionally, he is a sociotherapist. His vibrant paintings depict quirky characters, fools, people with quirks, and oddballs beyond the masses. His figures stagger in lawless spaces, balancing between crumbling humor and delicate melancholy.
His current series "Close" focuses on people with quirks and mental illnesses—individuals who stand apart from the crowd. Jokke Kreutziger aims not to flirt with pathological diagnoses but rather to break them down and make the people behind them tangible again.
Erika Greilich (Germany) Faces the challenge of questioning herself and others. Humanity seems to hunger to remain within its comfort zone. This situation makes it easy for splinter groups to recruit followers for their purposes, who long for a pre-packaged ideology in their "meaningless" world. In the series "Soul Catchers," she explores the structures and effects of such sects and cult-like concepts. In a surreal manner, she personifies these organizations, creating mysterious bodies that are both repulsive and fascinating. Her finely drawn hatching on wood forms a grid where the viewer's gaze gets caught, and through the intense colors, they only realize at the last moment that they have become ensnared in a web.
Live Act: Wooguru Fd (Korea) Through dance, he wants to tell a story about freedom. Being free is essential for all living beings. He chose to dance of his own free will, as it is in his nature and represents absolute freedom for life.