Ivan Liovik Ebel: Every Now and Then

Galerie Gilla Lörcher is delighted to kick off the 2016 fall season with
a solo exhibition by Swiss artist Ivan Liovik Ebel which is brimming
with vibrant colour. In the scope of his “Loop” series, created over
the past three years, Ebel has been exploring the idea of the artistic
duplicate, investigating on the one hand the existential question (for
works of art) of original and copy, while also probing the possibility
of reproducing individual moments and creating simultaneity.

For the exhibition “Every Now and Then”, Ebel has developed this
idea of the artistic duplicate further in another formal language. His
recent sculptural work “Saaampling” can be seen in three separate
instances in the exhibition. For Ebel, the process involved in its
creation is also a reference to the world of music, specifically to the
technique of sampling: that is, the act of taking something out of its
original context, in this case a stone taken from nature, and
repeating it in a new context. And as the thematic field of illusion is
one of Ebel’s central concerns, the idea of the trompe-l’œil (and its
opposite) also plays a large role in this exhibition.

As Ivan Liovik Ebel himself puts it: “Individual works and series,
created on the basis of repeated gestures and regulating principles,
challenge the idea of original and copy, of temporality,
transformation and chronology, as well as the idea of the
relationships between time and space in the origination process of an
image.”

For “Every Now and Then”, the gallery space glows in a soft pink.
The Loop pieces, which seem to float in the room, can only truly be
perceived as duplicate pieces when one takes the time to investigate
them throughout the entire space. Visitors who think that they can
capture the essence of the show in one glance or merely from a
single perspective will indeed miss out on half of what the exhibition
has to offer. “Every Now and Then” contains two exhibitions in one.
A challenge for the Berlin Art Week flâneur.