Besuch BODY INSTRUMENTS von Nevin Aladağ & BLUNT INSTRUMENT von Mary Ramsden bei WENTRUP

Vielen Dank an die Galerieinhaberin Tina Wentrup für ihre Einführung in die Geschichte, Entwicklung und Konzeption der Galerie WENTRUP und an die Galeriemanagerin Corinne Foerster und an den Direktor Jan Winkelmann für ihre Führung für unsere Teilnehmer*innen durch die Ausstellungen Body Instruments von Nevin Aladağ & Blunt Instrument von Mary Ramsden. Der Besuch ist Teil des BAI Studioprogrammes | Kunstschule, Kunstinkubator, Artist in Residence und Live Onlinekurse & -klassen in Berlin.

Ausstellungsdauer: 11. September – 16. Oktober 2021
Ort: WENTRUP
Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag – Samstag, 11 – 18 Uhr
Adresse: Knesebeckstraße 95, 10623 Berlin

„In keeping with the new directions in Aladağ ‘s work, the exhibition features new works from the series of Social Fabric. In the context of the Body Instruments exhibition, these carpet works, which come from different regions and cultures, are now characterized by new, curved forms, which are reminiscent of stylized sound waves that are superimposed “symphonically” from the most diverse origins. However, in their form as circular blanks, they also speak to the fabrics of stereo systems drawn over the loudspeakers or the sound panels made with textile in recording studios, which distribute or swallow the reverberation. The abstract lines of the Social Fabric discs thus also complement the geometric wall objects such as Round Drum, Hexagon Drum, Triangle Drum, or Square Drum. They point to a possibly central question within this exhibition: can the exhibition space be condensed as a substantial sound body and abstract pictorial space in one object?“ (Textauszug aus der Pressemitteilung: Courtesy WENTRUP)

„Mary Ramsden now takes up this idea to counteract the Corona-imposed sense of being alone or thrown back on oneself. The unusual thing about it is that the portraits are not — as one might think hearing the term portrait — figurative, pictorial representations of people, but small-format, abstract compositions, amalgams of painting, material collages, and portraits in the metaphorical sense. Almost all of the works shown in the exhibition “Blunt Instrument” consist of several overlapping material layers. These are mostly wooden panels painted, sawn, broken with dots of color, painted over the entire surface, or partially. She combines these with other common household materials such as plastic, corrugated cardboard, mirrors, pieces of metal, leather and more.“ (Textauszug aus der Pressemitteilung: Courtesy WENTRUP)