September 15, 2021, 2 pm
Many thanks to the gallery owner Tina Wentrup introducing our participants to the gallery concept, program and history of WENTRUP and to the gallery manager Corinne Foerster and senior director Jan Winkelmann guiding us through the exhibitions Body Instruments by Nevin Aladağ & Blunt Instrument by Mary Ramsden. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Dates: September 11 – October 16, 2021
Location: WENTRUP
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM
Address: 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?” (Text excerpt from the press release by courtesy of 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.” (Text excerpt from the press release by courtesy of WENTRUP)
More information on the WENTRUP Website.
