March 20, 2024, 3 pm
Many thanks to the gallery owner Shahin Zarinbal introducing our participants to the concept, program & history of Shahin Zarinbal and guiding us through the exhibition Success Media by Cecilie Norgaard. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Date: March 09 – April 13, 2024
Location: Shahin Zarinbal
Opening Hours: Friday – Saturday, 2 – 6 PM and by appointment
Address: Leipziger Straße 55, 10117 Berlin
“Symbolic knowledge echoes, not only throughout this show, but tangibly throughout Norgaard’s formal painterly practice. A term, and perhaps a style, applied to the act of relaying information through shape-shifting symbolism – signs and use of colour – which develop and accumulate throughout the work.
Echoing this emphasis on symbolism, the busy-lane-logistics applied to the exhibiting of Success Media, also appears to position the condition and thematisation of the exhibition itself, on display. Albeit their clear aesthetic presence, these works’ intention, rather than accentuating the significance of painting as aesthetic principle, are as allegories for the principle of painting itself, showing themselves as analytical pictorial subjects. Their raison d’être being meaning. And as inquiry into what knowledge their medium has the ability to transport as a discursive reflective-value-rear-view.” (Text excerpt from the press release by courtesy of Sanna Helena Berger & Shahin Zarinbal)
