Supernatural
dal 9/5/2008 al 9/8/2008
Segnalato da
Emmanuelle Antille
Jordi Bernado'
Cor Dera
Graham Fagen
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Tue Greenfort
Sabine Gross
Uwe Henneken
Gabriel Kuri
Peter Land
Roman Lipski
Stefan Loffelhardt
Markus Karstiess
Soren Martinsen
Paul McDevitt
Paul Morrison
Jean-Luc Mylane
Dan Peterman
Fredrik Raddum
Thomas Ruff
Gerwald Rockenschaub
Thomas Scheibitz
John Stezaker
Roman Signer
Friederike Nymphius
9/5/2008
Supernatural
CCA Andratx, Majorca
The group show features painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, photography, and new media by about 20 international contemporary artists. The works are multidimensional and multilayered, what they share are the almost paradoxical references in their exploration of theme. Their subversive, incisive and sensitive commentaries on the subject create a very varied imagery. The display explores nature as a site, as an object of perception and a symptom of fascination, while acknowledging that it is also a culturally produced concept coded in a specific time and space.
Curated by Friederike Nymphius
Emmanuelle Antille 1972 / CH, Jordi Bernadó 1966 / E, Cor Dera 1961 / NL, Graham Fagen 1966 / GB, Hans-Peter Feldmann 1941 / D, Tue Greenfort 1973 / DK, Sabine Groß 1961 / D, Uwe Henneken 1974 / D, Gabriel Kuri, Peter Land 1966 / DK, Roman Lipski 1969 / PL, Stefan Löffelhardt 1961 / D, Markus Karstiess 1971 / D, Soren Martinsen 1968 / D, Paul McDevitt 1972 / GB, Paul Morrison, Jean-Luc Mylane 1948 / F, Dan Peterman 1960 / USA , Fredrik Raddum 1973 / NOR, Thomas Ruff 1958 / D, Gerwald Rockenschaub 1958 / A, Thomas Scheibitz 1968 / D, John Stezaker 1949 / GB, Roman Signer 1938 / CH
SUPERNATURAL is an international group show ideated especially for Kunsthalle Andratx. The show features painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, photography, and new media by about 20 international contemporary artists. The artists’ works are multidimensional and multilayered, what they share are the almost paradoxical references in their exploration of theme. Their subversive, incisive and sensitive commentaries on the subject create a very varied imagery.
Our idealistic concepts of nature are proving to be archaic, and we are re-awakening to a new version of nature. The exhibition SUPERNATURAL reflects a this vision of a nature strangely altered through cross-pollination with popular culture, technology and romanticism. While "nature" refers to both real and fictional ideas of nature, "super" relates to constructed images, artifice, utopia or to scientific research.
SUPERNATURAL explores nature as a site, as an object of perception and a symptom of fascination, while acknowledging that it is also a culturally produced concept coded in a specific time and space. At the interface of nature, reality and artifice the exhibition develops new visions of nature that prove their contemporary critical background as well as a new particular romantic sensitivity for nature.
Opening 10th May
CCA Andratx
Estanyera, 2 - Majorca