October 2011 – Crystal Ball Berlin

Opening of the exhibition on Fri. 14th. October at 8 p.m.
14.10. – 26.11.2011

Ioana Alexe Untitled Video Gallery Crystal Ball Berlin — Untitled Video, Ionana Alexe

In her work Ioana Alexe reproduces in various ways pictures, icons and objects of the art world. The mediated appearance and manner of transfer convey the intentions of the artist. In her video work “Untitled” Ioana Alexe puts back painting to its time-based context of creation. As such she reproduces one of Gerhard Richter’s famous candle series cinematically and traces in a “Performance of an Image” the burning candle for 7 hours and 39 minutes. Essentially, it is not so much the mere reset of the iconography of the imagery, but its deviation in the display of lost images, represented by recorded moments of the slowly burning and expiring candle. With the activated relation between a recollected well known image to its cover version, a “fictional” unspectacular documentary, interpretation amplifies about personal impressions using the pretended dissolution of the quotation.

In the semidarkness of the exhibition Ioana Alexe shows in connected installations a table with books. Volumes out of wood in different sizes are the basis for reproduced and hard covers. Sensitively painted dummies: Art books and anthologies operate here as doubles whose viewing expresses concealment. In a denial of the object in which also a personal language is preferred instead of a precise copying, the subject is art itself and its displaced signification. The artist works with both complex and deficit strategies of transmitting images into a new vision. With smooth adjustments Ioana Alexe shows that there are several options for interpretation that are relevant for its proposition. The impact is a wide perspective which articulates the subjective and doesn’t exclude it in its appreciation.

Ioana Alexe: Untitled, Installation Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — left: Untitled, Ioana Alexe, Video
Right: Book table, Ioana Alexe, Installation

Ioana Alexe Buechertisch Installation Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin — left: Untitled, Ioana Alexe, Video
Right: Book table, Ioana Alexe, Installation

Opening of the exhibition at the Crystal Ball Gallery:
Sat. 1. October 2011 at 8 pm with a performance by Nicolas Puyjalon.

Attention: An exhibition in two locations. Palace of Culture Wedding International, opens the first part with performance on the previous day: Fr. the 30th September at 8 p.m.
The exhibitions are curated by Kurt Forever

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Group exhibitons/ participating artists:

Amélie Bertrand
Vincent Busson
Sarah Duby

Ariel Fleiszbein
Benoit Géhanne
Aurélie Godard

Flandin & Waré
Nicolas Puyjalon
Edgar Guilmoto

Roger Caillois notes the extreme case of these insects which, because they imitate so perfectly their habitat, end up disappearing completely in the uniformity of the same uninterrupted texture. Some will talk about tactic of predation or defence mechanism, but Caillois refutes this interpretation. He deduces: this mimicry aiming to decrease differences between the organism and his environment would actually cause a depersonalization – because an effective imitation can erase any variation or boundary from one to the other, the individual being resorbed in this surrounding space he wanted to merge with.

Caillois raises the question of the limit or outline; and against this radical ontological erasing of camouflage, he pleads in favour of dissimilarities. The animal mimicry, ultimate example of an ideal of harmonization between the figure and the background, points the risk of entropy. A solution: set against the laws of the semblance the effervescence of the irregularities. DEPLATZIEREN, to fight against this deletion of the distinctions which the repetition of the same generates. DEPLATZIEREN, so disorder and disruption can take shape. As metonymy, moving the value of the representations. And assert, beyond what conventions indicate as good shape or tolerate as manifest content, these incongruities – all these things which, precisely because they clash, also incite to reconsider connections and to open new fields.

Text written by Marion Delage de Luget

Galerie Crystal Ball

Month: October 2011

Ioana Alexe – Untitled

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Group exhibitons/ participating artists:

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