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31/3/2011

Siyoung Kim & Julia Ziegler

Francoise Heitsch, Munich

Siyoung Kim
Himmel oder Hölle

The technique of collage is traceable in all of the works of the Korean artist Siyoung Kim (1976, Berlin). Assembling figurative motifs derived from diverse sources serves as a means in order to expand and reveal the spectrum of the human qualities and cultural structures, and to put these in contrast with each other. The human being as a cultural entity and as the product of the media world, between heteronomy and processes of identification and self-discovery, the civilizing impetus and the brute and animalistic drives, constitutes the core of her work. The fragility of cultural definitions is her avowed domain, as well as the possibility to learn from each other due to the complexity of human existence. The collage renders visible this complexity and allows the spectator to identify with the depicted material. More than in her paper-based work, is this recognizable in her video work, which she stages as experiences of the individual and his environment. Her videos and also her, partially interactive, robot-sculptures emerged from her formal main work, the three-dimensional photo-collage: random findings taken from public print media are worked on and re-shaped in size and form, Styrofoam or other materials are used in order to support them, and are consequently combined with the collages. Through the spatial scaling of the elements or the groupings of figures, Siyoung Kim creates a three-dimensional narrative scenery. In doing so, visual and pictorial objects on the wall, free space-installations or intermediate forms, with and without a pictorial ground, which, occasionally, are reduced to a single figure, are created.

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Julia Ziegler
Himmel oder Hölle

In the work of the Berlin-based artist Julia Ziegler (1963, Frankfurt on the Main), which combines painting, installation, mixed-media-objects and drawings, especially the drawing plays an important role. Directly with colour onto the wall – with threads throughout the room – with a typing machine onto A4 sheets, or – like here – large-sized, dynamic and energetic – the precision of the line shapes and configures the room. In 2004, Françoise Heitsch exhibited the work “Grammatik [Grammar]” – the precursor of the currently displayed series. “Chorus“ and “Wolken [Clouds]” are two series, which are installed facing each other. Both are large-sized marker drawings on varnished paper. “Chorus” shows the portraits of the members of a choir when singing. The huge faces are composed of hatchings reminiscent of the enhanced structures of an etching. The scale and the dynamic application of lines render them present, yet, simultaneously, due to the lowered gaze, absent-minded. At a close range, the lines dissolve merging into patterns and rhythms. From a distance an ensemble of different characters emerges.
Reduction and simplification, derived from close observation, together with a little bit of imagination, are also characteristics of the Cloud-drawings. Created in the same way as the Chorus-images, they, too, play with the tension of proximity and distance, transparency and matter, state and change.

Image: Siyoung Kim, Der jüngste Tag, 2007, Collage, 26 x 23 x 3 cm

Opening: 31 march 7 pm

Francoise Heitsch
Amalienstrasse 19 - Munich
tue-fri 14-19, sat 12-16

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