20/4/2012
Galerie Neu Berlin - 'Pubblico'
16th Line, Rostov on Don
Group show curated by Maria Sigutina. Exhibition focused on object-based art, film and sound-related installations, as well as conceptual light works. Works by Claire Fontaine, Florian Hecker and Daniel Pflumm.
Curated by Maria Sigutina
16th line – the newly-opened contemporary art centre in Rostov-on-Don – is
delighted to announce its second pop-up show presenting Galerie NEU, Berlin.
Following the sensational opening exhibition with artists from Contemporary Fine
Arts in early March, Galerie NEU will present two consecutive exhibitions. The
first show, ”Pubblico” features works by Claire Fontaine, Florian Hecker and
Daniel Pflumm.
Focussing on object-based art, film and sound-related installations, as well as
conceptual light works, this show addresses art enthusiasts and collectors in the
Rostov region as well as an international audience.
Initiators of 16TH LINE, Russian collector Evgeny Samoylov, international
curator Maria Sigutina and German gallerist and Russia-expert Volker Diehl
aim at expanding the international market in the Rostov-region. More than that,
the essential objective of the project is to establish and deepen the contact
between initiators, featured artists and Russian art lovers: “By cooperating with
leading international galleries we are not only establishing a solid basis for the
international market here. As part of each exhibition we offer a broad art
educational programme moderated by top curators, artists and art professionals,
including a series of lectures and master classes to the general public in Rostov-
on-Don”, says Tatyana Provorova, director of the art centre.
Berlin-based art critic Mark Gisbourne who follows closely the entire project
subsumes the broad and comprehensive show’s contents in his catalogue text
as follows:
“The logos and signage oriented works of Daniel Pflumm question not only the
topology of advertising, its motives and constructions, but also the POP
psychology of visual mediation and transmission. This Swiss-born Berlin-based
artist, whose work originally emerged in the 1990s from billboards and an active
DJ on the club scene, questions the parameters of art works as products and
products as art works. Using primarily light boxes and simple logo forms (open
pictograms or pop hieroglyphs) Pflumm opens up questions related the
semiotics of signage. Conversely, the light and text based signage of the French
collective Claire Fontaine take on neo-conceptual linguistic functions, using
ideas of the textual ideogram as differing forms of punctum they both prompt
and provoke the viewer.
At the same time by using the conventions of high art
materials and simultaneously undermining them, her wooden pedestal and
Messerschmidt-like pink marble sculptures act as a deliberate aesthetic
provocation.
Whether working through sculpture, object, or simple signage, the
Fontaine collective works invariably infer barbed visual contents and open up a
sense of critical disturbance and assertive engagement. Florian Hecker works
with minimal constructions and sound-based installations. An internationally
acclaimed composer of electronic music his art works create a unique interface
of sound and vision since he operates in the interstices between sound and
object. The sound created and their interactive performance elements intimate
a particular sense of contemporary synaesthesia as spatial and tonal
experiences are spontaneously fused together.“
Opening April 21, 2012, 7 pm
16th LINE
16th Line 7a, South Federal District - Rostov on Don
Tue - Fr: 11am - 9pm; Sat - Sun: 12am - 9pm
Admission free