Two shows
dal 4/12/2008 al 30/1/2009
Segnalato da
4/12/2008
Two shows
Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
The Zurich artists Markus and Reto Huber - at their first solo shows in Germany - present Dark Grounds, while London based Mark Pearson shows Disco Mystic. The exhibitions displays a series of collages and works on paper.
From December 5th, 2008 to January 31st, 2009 the Galerie Reinhard
Hauff introduces new artists with two parallel shows: the Zürich
artists Markus and Reto Huber (*1975) present „dark grounds“, while
London based Mark Pearson (*1966) shows „Disco Mystic“. Markus and
Reto are twins and work together under the artist name huber.huber.
For huber.huber as well as Mark Pearson these two shows of collages
and works on paper are their first solo shows in Germany.
The central group of works in the huber.huber show is „dark grounds“
which also formed the nucleus in a recent solo show the two artists
had at the Kunsthaus Glarus in Switzerland. From a large accumulation
of books, newspapers and magazines the artists compose collaged images
taking animal and human details out of one photojournalistic context,
and recomposing the image bits into surrealist landscapes of haunting
and disturbing iconography evoking post-nuclear desolation. References
to universal fears and superstitions from myths and folktales abound
in the emotional climate in these sceneries. „Their ambivalent
relationship to the natural sciences and society vacillates between
scepticism and fascination, irony and the bizarre. In the apparent
Idyll, disaster lurks permanently”. (Sabine Rusterholz).
Mark Pearson’s large ornamental DIY tapestries of sheets of cheap
wrapping paper taped together join designs and words from the Punk and
New Wave record covers of the 70’s and 80’s when techniques such as
stencilling, spray paint, photocopying and crude collage were readily
accessible means of production and communication. Pearson’s work seeks
to retain the exciting potential of these forms of expressive energy
and vitality while recognizing „the temporal shift in culture that
cause their redundancy, as they become events destined to burn out or
appropriated as logos for nihilism and discontent“ (Mark Pearson).
Divorced from the historical context of aggressive provocation against
the dominating trends in culture and society, the alien (non) words
and symbolism in Pearson’s raw and glowing compositions heralds the
cheap mystic of various subcultures.
Opening Friday, 05.12.2008, 7 - 10 pm
Galerie Reinhard Hauff
Paulinenstr. 47 - Stuttgart
Fr 1 - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 3 pm, and by appointment
Free admission