November 03, 2021, 2 pm
Many thanks to the gallery assistant Jonathan Kluth introducing our participants to the gallery concept & program of Efremidis and guiding us through the exhibitions Dienstag bis Sonntag by Anne Speier & [erp] How A Tree Dies by Vera Young. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Dates: October 16 – November 18, 2021
Location: Efremidis
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 06 PM
Address: Ernst Reuter Platz 2, 10587 Berlin
“Six of the seven pictures in this exhibition were painted on a particular day of the week, namely the one whose name they bear as their title. I wanted to try out whether a vague feeling for colors, which the days have in my imagination, would be transferred this way onto the canvas. At first, it was confusing to jump back and forth between the paintings at such a fast pace, but it was confusing in a dynamic and productive way. After a few months, changing between the works became too fast for me, and the rhythm dissolved. I always continued to paint where I knew to go on. However, the paintings were so advanced that the days of the week had taken over. The days occupied the paintings. As a consequence, I often lost the sense of when in the week I actually was. After a while, some mossy patches started to form and spread over the surfaces. The picture Finale is only moss—an open door, a way out of the exhibition.” (Text by courtesy of Anne Speier & Efremidis)
“In the music video of his seminal song A Piece of Red Cloth, Chinese rock musician Cui Jian is blindfolded: “You used a piece of red cloth,” he sings, “to blindfold my eyes and cover up the sky. You asked me what I could see. I said I saw happiness.” In her new installation, Vera Young uses red silk and other fabrics for an installation in the [erp] window space and to wrap a dead tree on Ernst-Reuter-Platz. This way, different parts become one, a unified system. Since the beginning of her artistic practice, the artist has used sewing to make works with canvas and paper, as well as immersive installations. ” (Text excerpt of the press release by courtesy of Efremidis)
More information on the Efremidis Website.
