Elisabeth Scherffig
dal 15/10/2006 al 23/11/2006
Segnalato da
15/10/2006
Elisabeth Scherffig
Faggionato Fine Art, London
In this new series of 8 large scale monochrome drawings, Elisabeth continues to explore the process of mutation in the urban landscape. The monumental scale and subject matter of the works, (225 x 150cm) exude both a physical and emotional tension.
New Works
Faggionato Fine Arts is proud to announce their
forthcoming exhibition of New Works by the German born artist Elisabeth
Scherffig. In this new series of 8 large scale monochrome drawings,
Elisabeth continues to explore the process of mutation in the urban
landscape in a much larger format than previously exhibited. The monumental
scale and subject matter of the works, (225 x 150cm) exude both a physical
and emotional tension. As a scientist might examine cells under a
microscope Elisabeth takes just a narrow slice of city views of
construction sites that are familiar to all of us, but on which we never
dwell. With exquisite detail she presents us with what at first appears to
be images of chaos and abandonment, but are actually an immensely ordered,
complex and a minutely examined details of the foundations of our urban
environments; twisted iron girders and large steel pipes wooden beams,
bricks and palettes, shapeless heaps of soil and clay.
Are these piles of
matter the start of complex architectural spaces or the detritus of decay?
Through these images Scherffig continually sets up a series of unanswered
contradictions and questions, which go far beyond the visual; construction,
or destruction, intellectual or emotional, figurative or abstract, chaos or
order? This dichotomy is depicted in the material and technique in which
Scherffig works, familiar, yet not actually in existence, these landscapes
are constructed from fantasy. Her preferred medium, soft pastel in sepia
gives the tough imagery a gentle mutedness.
Each precise, minute mark on
the paper has its exact place, creating an intricate series of almost
claustrophobic interlocking marks these works parallel the skills and
intensity of Old master drawings, whilst simultaneously presenting the
viewer with a very contemporary emotional and physical landscape.
Born in
1949 in Dusseldorf, Elisabeth Scherffig has lived and worked in Milan
(Italy) since 1970. Solo Exhibitions include: 2005, New York, Faggionato
Fine Art; 2003, Como, Borgovico 33; 2000, Milan, Massimo Valsecchi.
A
catalogue is available.
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