Vom 24 October, 2003 bis 01 January, 2004
Group show by Stefanie Busch, Isabelle Dutoit, Sebastian Hempel, Benno Hinkes, Juliane Köhler, Stefan Kübler, Lage Opedal, Inga Paas and Dirk Scheidt
The Exhibit
galerie baer I space for modern art is stepping into the art market with the exhibit “Profiler”. Nine young artistic perspectives, which mark the next exhibition event of our gallery, show the viewers the profile of the new gallery through the eyes of a profiler.
Painting, photography, and installation appear in this exhibit as equally valid possibilities of artistic expression. The gallery´s main focus lies in painterly-interpreted paintings, objectively cool photography, and calculated installations with a definite potential to surprise.
These media also function as a synthetic representation of the gallery. Many of the “Profiler” artists play with focus: clarity becomes blurred, reality and fiction can trade places as a result of the artistic creation of a world inside the picture, concepts hide behind form or aesthetic dominance becomes the concept.
This is the reason why the position of the profiler trades places with viewer and then returns to the gallery. The gallery will, with following exhibits in the 110 square meter space, bring together a clearly recognizable picture of the individual views and techniques of artists. For this purpose the gallery will change its shape, as dividing walls are changeable and removable. The office serves as a preview space for each following exhibit.
The Artists
With the use of anonymous landscapes, Stefanie Busch attempts to stimulate the rich remembrances of the viewer. She works with luminous cubes as a synthesis of film aesthetics, photography, and painting. As a result, a transparent, illuminated work executed in a transparent foil emerges at the gallery windows.
In her large-scale paintings, Isabelle Dutoit deals with her childhood dream of being in a painting herself. In her fictitious, predominantly unclear scenes, she places her own figure as a sharp contrast and becomes Alice in Wonderland, the mediator between reality and fiction.
With his view of moving objects, aesthetic as well as formal, Sebastian Hempel has a direct influence on the spacial perception and sensory experience of the viewer. Luminous, rotating diodes and a moving and constantly changing mural can be experienced at “Profiler”.
Benno Hinkes creates architectural installations, partially free-standing, partially built into the surrounding room. For these accessible installations, which have a picture-like character, Hinkes uses aesthetic and ever-present forms. A model is exhibited at “Profiler”.
Geography and cartography appear throughout the artistic work of Juliane Köhler as main themes. Even so, her artistic focus does not lie in the objective representation of space, but rather in making visual, individualized symbols by way of a geographic code system.
Stefan Kübler is an artist with a strong attraction to mathematics. He breaks up and reorganizes reproductions such as postcards, photographic wallpapers, and gift wrap. The depictions remain recognizable, but are multiplied, stretched, and mixed. Flowers become fields, posters of celebrities become anonymous, a child´s Tarzan grows elongated at “Profiler”.
Lage Opedal stands out with an unconventional, partially materialized choice of pictures. He is represented at “Profiler” with a series of works that are based on Rembrandt´s anatomic pictures. The photorealistic impression of the works is broken by the running of the paint in the lower third of the pictures.
The photographer Inga Paas works in a documentary, objective, serial fashion, formally based on the Becher school. No individual, artificially created lighting alters the interpretation of her motifs and concepts. She mainly selects humans embedded in their environment as the subjects of her works.
The photographer Dirk Scheidt tracks down witnesses for the construction and staging of the world. In “Profiler” he introduces himself with still lifes of objects which are freed from their original context and put into new constellations. He takes the real out of reality