Comprehensive Solo Exhibition for Katharina Fritsch at Hamburg's Deichtorhallen |
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| Written by Brenda Kitsch |
| Saturday, 07 November 2009 01:21 |
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Around 15 mostly large-sized work groups – presented in Germany for the first time – will give an overview of the artist’s very recent production of the past decade. The exhibition will also review on Fritsch’s striking, partially well known works such as “Tischgesellschaft / company at the table” (Museum Moderner Kunst Frankfurt am Main) and “Elefant / Elephant”. By means of sarcastic humour, Fritsch examines the world of everyday life, tourism and consumption. Collective symbols and personal reminiscences, emerging in her pictures and large-sized object sculptures, may cause deep emotions in the observer. During the last few years, Katharina Fritsch has particularly dealt with photography and its conversion into monumental pictures as well as with personal memories from childhood. Katharina Fritsch’s iconic and singular sculpture plays on the tension between reality and apparition, between the familiar and the surreal or uncanny. Her iconic objects, images, installations and sound works seem able to imprint themselves on the mind, as if they were gestalts or things we have seen and experienced before. Hearts, crosses, skulls, bottles and Madonnas are used to play on the fantasies and images that we share, but they are transformed through colour and material into things open and mysterious: latent notions transfigured into primal forms. Fritsch often recasts characters and elements from her own, private world. In works such as Tischgesellschaft (Company at Table), (1988), subjects – usually male – are transformed through colour and material into frozen, hyperreal beings that seem without otherworldly apparitions. The clarity, austerity and precision of Fritsch’s forms is developed through a lengthy manual sculpting process, a way to achieve the near industrial perfection of their finish.
Katharina Fritsch was born in 1956 in Essen, Germany and lives and works in Düsseldorf. She represented Germany in the 46th Venice Biennale and has had many solo exhibitions including Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1993), SF MOMA (1996), Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (1997), Tate Modern, London (2001), K21, Düsseldorf (2002) and a survey exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich (2009) that will tour to Deichtorhallen Hamburg. The Deichtorhallen is one of the best known exhibition galleries worldwide. The historical buildings are divided into an exhibition hall for contemporary art and the “House of Photography” – together the two buildings organize a highly diverse program of changing exhibitions. What were once two market halls today provide some 6,000 sq. m. of exhibition area, forming one of Europe’s largest centers for art exhibitions. Visit : www.deichtorhallen.de/ Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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