25/10/2009
Juliane Solmsdorf
Center, Berlin
Neuer Lustgarten. The artist often combines found objects of conflicting materiality: pulling worn stockings over hardboard, hanging swaths of tulle over embroidery hoops on a rough brick wall, or placing slabs like a folding screen around a stainless steel rod. With the metaphor of ''Lustgarten'' (pleasure garden), a place of sensuality and leisure, intimacy and invisibility, she transcribes a series of sculptural works with which she supports the directional theme of her art: the eroticism of the absent body.
Center is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Juliane Solmsdorf in Berlin.
With the metaphor „Lustgarten“(pleasure garden), a place of sensuality and leisure, intimacy and invisibility, she transcribes a series of sculptural works with which she supports the directional theme of her art: the eroticism of the absent body.
Juliane Solmsdorf often combines found objects of conflicting materiality: pulling worn stockings over hardboard, hanging swaths of tulle over embroidery hoops on a rough brick wall, or placing slabs like a folding screen around a stainless steel rod; thereby the work relates to ‚core“ and „shell“, the basis of the classical sculptural reflection of the human body; here seen merely as an association, seemingly abstract - in fact in the material itself and it‘s specific composition. Seemingly irrespective of the quadrate slabs, the nylon covering suggests at times the form of a pullover, at times a mask, the tulle appears as a veil before an invisible body, and the metal rod could refer to the absence of the dancer. Juliane Solomsdorf attests to a certain intuition of the varied materials, she is aware of her associative emanation and superficial qualities and allows them to react with one another. So is the process of the formation of the object itself conveyed, as when the nylon stockings create shadows when stretched, or rip, forming ladders that run the length, creating a fine web of peppered lines throughout. As an impression of the force-effect, these injuries and wounds speak as a basic theme of human existence.
In the juxtaposition of aggression and melancholy, of gentleness and cruelty the artist generates erotic tension, in its intensity the most beautiful argument for both the withdrawal from the physical body and, conversely, it‘s assertion.
Juliane Solmsdorf studied from 200-2005 with Katharina Sieverding at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and recently received the Senatsstipendium at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. In 2007/2008 she was included in group exhibitions at ZKM, Karlsruhe; The White Space Gallery, London; and in Grazier Kunstverein. Her first exhibition, „amber“ was shown by Blaue Kugel, Hamburg, in 2004. The artist lives in Berlin.
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