Yoshitaka Amano
Gianfranco Baruchello
Meg Cranston
Lili Dujourie
Monique van-Genderen
Emil Holmer
Christof Mascher
Christoph Steinmeyer
Shaan Syed
Joris Van de
Moortel
Mario Ybarra Jr.
The group show focuses on works on paper, including prints, illustrated books, and selected drawings, that explore and manipulate the materiality of paper itself.
The exhibition focuses on works on paper, including prints, illustrated
books, and selected drawings, that explore and manipulate the materiality of paper
itself. On view are works by Yoshitaka Amano, Gianfranco Baruchello, Meg Cranston,
Lili Dujourie, Monique van Genderen, Emil Holmer, Christof Mascher, Christoph
Steinmeyer, Shaan Syed, Joris Van de Moortel and Mario Ybarra Jr.
Yoshitaka Amano gained fame in the 1970's creating anime, manga and video game
characters. He combines traditions of Japanese painting with western influences and
popular culture.
The extensive and complex oeuvre of Gianfranco Baruchello goes back to the 1960's.
An important part of his artistic expression are his assemblages composed of cutouts
from magazines, self-painted paper and small objects in boxes made of wood and
Plexiglas that offer a glimpse into filigree universes.
Meg Cranston's work includes sculptures, drawing, collages, photographs and
installations. Her longstanding interest in anthropology and cultural history have
always shaped her approach to making art in both material and conceptual ways.
Lili Dujourie is continuously concerned with contemporary reinterpretations of
themes, forms and gestures from art history. In her articulation of minimalism and
conceptual ideas, her works draw questions on the relation between matter and
subject and how these relate to perception.
Monique van Genderen explores elements of narrative, illusion and figuration within
abstraction by allowing the surface and material to narrate the picture plane rather
than a subject.
Playing with a ready-made language and graffiti style Emil Holmer's artistic
rhetoric is both subjective and impartial in which collages of medical and
pornographic material meet total abstraction.
Christof Mascher creates worlds in which utopian notions are fused with apocalyptic
visions revealing contradictions and unexpected interruptions. Influenced by both
high and mass culture his visual language follows its own iconography.
Christoph Steinmeyer uses motifs gleaned from European painting traditions and
filmic replicas. He has adopted a multiple transformation process in order to
generate images that alienate the original motif.
The heavy and highly textured surfaces of Shaan Syed's works betray his interest in
notions around real and painterly space. Playing with what is written on the horizon
line where pigments seemingly merge Syed invokes hope and ambitions associated with
the wide-open landscape.
Joris Van de Moortel arranges objects in extreme situations stripping them of their
original function. Inspired by found situations as well as by music his works often
have no definite beginning, middle or end. Leading them toward ?predicable
incidents" he explores the point at which something turns ?performative".
Mario Ybarra Jr. draws attention to forms of culture on the fringe of the
mainstream. Influenced by graffiti and early cartoons he doesn't reject his
Mexican-American identity.
Opening: Friday, January 27, 2012, 6 - 9 p.m.
Galerie Michael Janssen
Rudi-Dutschke Str. 26 - Berlin
Hours: Tue - Sat 11 - 6 pm
Free admission