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29/12/2002

Group show

Jennifer Jordan Jens Nippert Kristofer Paetau, Berlin

Welcome to the opening of the exhibition: Marica Gojevic Thomas Hauri Noori Lee Monika Ruckstuhl and Walter Derungs on saturday 30. 11. 02 at 7 PM

Marica Gojevic
"Hommage" by Marica Gojevic refers to a visit to her grandmother's village - a barren landscape in Croatia, a road through an abandoned dwelling. Ruins, rubble and traces of destruction. In shorter and shorter cuts, we pass through an empty village, a no man's land, in fact a war zone, and, before, Gojevic's protective childhood place. With an underlying fear of safety loss, the notion of home is put into an open field of interpretation.

Thomas Hauri
''Since a while, I work on large scale water colours. Water colour is often associated with an idealizing representation of the environment. I think this is because of the choice of motifs and the way how this technique is applied. In my work, I combine the sensuality of water colours with the cool esthetics of prefabs and industrial architecture.''

Noori Lee
The painterly reality of Noori Lee's works is based on paint body and vocabulary of form - which, despite of its representationality and materiality, avoid coherence and clear deciphering. Often coming out of a corner, paint skins or black spots spread into the field of the painting like parasitic systems: Oil dripping off the water. Graphic ramificationsemphasize the flatness of the painting and destroy spacial illusion, and just by Lee's use of painting as
site for initializing an intrigue between drawing and painting - as two diverging image systems - its potential destructibility turns out to be a value in its own.

Monika Ruckstuhl
The sensitivity in Monika Ruckstuhl's paintings is no quality of the work itself, but is consciously represented, as it is done with the serene melancholy of the landscape.
Behind an esthetic and longing surface hides a subtle and complex statement about the safety of home.
A sort of anti-will against the represented.

Walter Derungs
Walter Derung's photos point at the search for artificially generated harmony. His road movie - like process reveals fascination rather than criticism for industrial and urban architecture. Nature, totally converted by Man, and his traces in it. The work "sx-70#" consists of enlarged Polaroids. on the first look, they appear as black holes. Looking closer, one recognizes deserted nocturnal cityscapes. Resulting from a reductionistic concept, the images gain abstraction, but cause more a no way out- feeling than offering survey and clarity.

Image: a work by Marica Gojevic

Jennifer Jordan Jens Nippert Kristofer Paetau
Wohlertstr. 21
10115 Berlin
tel: 030 48331844

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