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16/1/2013

Silvia Hatzl

Rosenfeld Porcini, London

Rosenfeld Porcini is delighted to announce A Fragile Existence, the inaugural UK solo exhibition by German artist Silvia Hatzl. Opening on 18th January 2013, the exhibition will showcase her sculptural clothing, busts and heads, which explore the illusion of clothing as a concealment of human nakedness. Displayed across 3,000 square feet of gallery space, this exhibition follows on from her successful museum show at Museum am Dom Wurzburg, Germany, this summer.

Silvia Hatzl creates sculptures which are often highly theatrical and resemble recognisable forms, created from varying natural materials including linen, silk, cotton, paper and even animal intestines. As a result the works often reveal, in part or in whole, a heightened sense of transparency. The forms range from childlike in their scale to far larger than life, so that an installation of her work resembles a silent, ethereal group of living people, covering all the possible ages of man.

All of the sculptures, due to the materials used, retain their natural creases and lines. Many of Hatzl's works also reveal a great painterliness with the clothes often speckled with rust or pigment. Sometimes she applies sand, ashes or mortar to emphasise the richness and beauty of the forms. Delicate to touch, they are silent performers.

Ian Rosenfeld, Director of the gallery, describes the unique poetic resonance behind her work: "We stare at these absent figures and we reflect on our own ultimate fragility in the world, not merely the physical but far more profoundly, the emotional."

In addition to the clothes, the exhibition will also contain a series of heads and busts, made from the same natural materials. Although apparently solid, the extreme delicacy behind their making results in them retaining the same sense of vulnerability, present throughout all the exhibition works.

Ian Rosenfeld is a photographer, film-maker and gallery director living in London. He has had solo exhibitions at the National Theatre, the Barbican Centre, the Pinacoteca in Bologna, the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara and the French Cultural Institute in Florence, amongst others. Two volumes of his work have been published, Bologna: Time, Space and Photography (Nuova Alpha) and Ferrara: Echoes of Silence (Alchima Art Publishing). Two of Rosenfeld's films have premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Echoes of Time in 1993 and Doors of Memory in 1998. In 2007, he joined Italy's Galleria Napoli Nobilissima with responsibility for the contemporary art exhibitions programme. He founded Rosenfeld Porcini in 2011.

Notes to Editors:

Silvia Hatzl was born in 1966 in Bavaria, Germany. She studied Visual Arts in Brussels before moving to Paris to study at the Sorbonne and l'Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués. Currently working as a painter, sculptor, stage and costume designer in Belgium and Germany, her work has been acquired by Museum am Dom in Germany and MOMU in Belgium.

Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery

Founded in June 2011 by Ian Rosenfeld and Dario Porcini, directors of Italy's Galleria Napoli Nobilissima, Rosenfeld Porcini occupies a prime location in the heart of the dynamic gallery district of London's Fitzrovia. With 3,000 square feet of gallery space, Rosenfeld Porcini has a strong international outlook committed to showing contemporary artists from around the world with an innovative exhibitions programme. Old Master and Modern shows will occasionally be presented, either monographic or themed, within the context of the contemporary space, exploring a firm curatorial belief in the continuity that underlies the story of art.

Private View: Thursday 17th January, 6.30-8.30pm

Rosenfeld Porcini
37 Rathbone Street, London
Hours: 11am-7pm Tuesday to Saturday
Free Admission

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