querüber Ellinor Euler • Petra Tödter
Exhibition Duration: October 11 to November 9, 2014
Opening: Friday, October 10, 2014, 7:30 PM
Crossing boundaries within various artistic disciplines such as painting, sculpture, drawing, and more is a hallmark of contemporary visual art. This interdisciplinary approach fosters creative interplay, new forms of expression, and an expansion of the artistic spectrum. The exhibition "querüber" aims to showcase the engagement of two artists with the transition from drawing to object and vice versa, highlighting their diametrically opposed movements and artistic approaches, which create a dialogue precisely because of their differences.
Ellinor Euler is currently pursuing a consistent evolution in her work towards increased complexity, three-dimensionality, and material density. She methodically varies drawing in a "line-like," yet genre-defying representation, exploring its extension in space through different techniques. The series of spatial drawings began in 2012 with large-scale drawings on heavy handmade, dark-grounded paper. Here, she freely draws a light line using pigmented ink without geometric planning, creating overlapping networks of triangular elements that suggest spatiality with extreme densities and wide-meshed regions. Since 2014, the artist has been transferring these structures into what she calls spatial drawings. Using a hot glue gun as if it were a drawing tool, she assembles three-dimensional lines into monochromatic net fabrics of delicate and transparent quality. Through further layering and the composition of multiple sculptures side by side and behind one another, she creates densities in real space.
Petra Tödter is among the artists who sustainably engage with the themes of line, form, color, and space. For her multipart, meticulously crafted wall sculptures, she folds Finn cardboard, glues it into objects, and then paints them with vibrant, signal-colored pigments and varnish. She does not adapt the color treatment to the existing surfaces; instead, she plays with the spatial conditions of the objects through their overpainting, arranging them in groups to explore a multitude of possible color-form constellations. This results in complex hybrids between painting and sculpture that question and expand genre-specific rules.
For the first time, the artist also presents colored pencil drawings that continuously and complementarily emerge alongside the object groups, adding a new dimension. She takes individual sculptures and translates their form elements into flat representations that, when cut, folded, and assembled, would recreate the entire form. In a serial arrangement, diverse combinations unfold here as well, inviting viewers on a visual journey of discovery.
Curated by Susann Kramer
Additional Events:
Saturday, November 1, 2014, 6 PM to 12 AM
NACHTUNDNEBEL Art Festival 2014
Sunday, November 9, 2014, 7:30 PM
Finissage with artist talk and drawing of the art lottery