November 10, 2021, 2 pm
Many thanks to the gallery owner Marie-Blanche Carlier introducing our participants to the gallery concept, program and history of carlier | gebauer and to the gallery director Margherita Rossi guiding us through the exhibition Metoikos (in between drawings) by Julie Mehretu. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Dates: September 18 – November 13, 2021
Location: carlier | gebauer, Berlin
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 11 AM – 7 PM & Saturday, 11 AM – 2 PM
Address: Markgrafenstraße 67, 10969 Berlin
“Mehretu considers abstraction a space of unknowing, of possibility—that which offers something beyond language, a space of potential that cannot be articulated otherwise. Painting is thereby a means, in Mehretu’s words, to »think through the struggle in an alternative, abstract way.« Her newest works respond to a diverse set of images related to current events, ranging from immigrant detention centers and social upheaval to ecological disasters. These photographs, some of which she keeps in her studio for months or even years before finding a point of entry for the work, form the “DNA” of the painting. Using Photoshop, Mehretu distorts the image beyond recognition, at times combining multiple images, before building a layered composition with paint, screenprint, airbrush, and ink. Subsumed beneath accumulations of riotous, luminous marks, the specificity and source of the image is sublimated yet remains, as Mehretu claims, the »pain and the source of the image«.” (Text excerpt from the press release by courtesy of carlier | gebauer)
More information on the carlier | gebauer Website.
