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14/9/2007

Anna Genger

Upstairs Berlin Gallery, Berlin

Blood, Sweat 'n tears

Upstairs berlin is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Anna Genger. For her first solo exhibition with the gallery – following her participation in our group show Solitude. London Artists Today in 2006 – the German artist presents a cycle of paintings ranging from small- to large-sized. Dark, biotic metamorphoses, broken by strikingly bright colours, lead to a Borgesian labyrinth in which the viewer gets lost. The paintings allow him to escape into a fantastic world.

Anna Genger combines organisms from flora and fauna with newly invented forms: elusive, inconceivable, intensely emotional. Her impetuous compositions are filled with dramatic violence. Infiltrating delicate elements of pure beauty, she tells us of her world, a world between harmony and dissonance.
In her paintings, Anna Genger bares her innermost. Pain, grief, joy and desire. Life and death. Love and hate. Paradox and ambiguity are characteristic of her work. Inspired by apparently trivial private conversations, sentimental songs on the radio, profound poems, her works symbolically reflect her subjective experience of the world.
Genger’s oeuvre has a materiality which emphasises the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work. For her, painting is the sublime entity that she needs to exist. For beauty is about being alive.

Anna Genger (born in Hamburg, Germany in 1978) lives and works in London and Hamburg. Having graduated from London's Royal College of Art in 2007, she has exhibited internationally and recently received the artist-in-residence grant of Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Pougues-les-Eaux in France.
A fully illustrated catalogue in colour with a text by Petra Henninger will accompany the exhibition.

For further information, please contact
Mr Aeneas Bastian on +49-30-209 157 90 or by email: press@upstairs-berlin.com

Opening 1st floor: Saturday, September 15, 2007, 6 to 8 pm

Upstairs berlin
Zimmerstrasse 90/91 Berlin
open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm.

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