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24/9/2012

Nicole Wermers

Pigna Project Space, Roma

Curated by Luca Lo Pinto

Exploring how methods of display and presentation affect our understanding and experience of space, Nicole Wermers’ work investigates the legacy of modernism and the aesthetics of consumption in contemporary visual culture. Through sculpture, photography and collage, Wermers recontextualizes and reimagines modernist forms in ways that frame, contain, and transform the spaces in which they are installed.

Ashtrays resembling sculptures or sculptures that remind one of security devices at the exit of department stores; objects that blur the distinctions between functional design and autonomously conceived art and reflect on the conditions of producing sculpture in our thoroughly designed environment.
The project conceived for her first solo exhibition in Italy furthers this research. Starting from the observation of design of everyday objects and their commercial context, the artist evaluates the form and content by using its same language.

During walks through Rome Nicole Wermers came across the displays of typical artfully made Sicilian sweets. Inspired by their sculptural qualities and levels of abstraction of religious mythology (for example the dome shaped cakes representing the cut off breast of the martyr Sant’Agata), Wermers designed two different kinds of sculptural sweets that will be shown on two specifically made steel shelves hanging from facing walls of the gallery. During the course of the exhibition the display of the sweets alternates with the display of müsli in the shelf like structures on the wall. The müsli adopts the function of a “nightdecoration” (normally a term for a a night-time substitute of valuable goods in shop windows) and resonates some of Wermers’s previous shelf and table sculptures that structure shapeless materials such as sand and water. The title of the installation “Eigenmischung” is a German term describing a personalised blend or mix of ingredients referring to sculptural as well as everyday processes of production and at the same time to the artist’s displayed customised mix of müsli.

Nicole Wermers (1971, Emsdetten, Germany) lives and works in London.
She currently resides in Rome where she has received a fellowship at Villa Massimo.

Solo exhibitions (selected): 2012 Spray, Tanya Bonakdar, New York 2011 Buhuu Suite, Herald St, London; Hôtel Biron, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf 2009 Public Rain Fries, Georg Kargl Box, Vienna, 2008 Public Rain, Herald St, London 2007 Masse und Auflösung, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Filialen, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg; Doors and Bouncers, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2005 Everyday Alchemy, Camden Arts Centre, London 2004 Chemie, Secession, Vienna, 2002 French Junkies, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg

Group exhibitions (selected): 2012 Re:Generation, MACRO, Rome; Out of Focus, Saatchi Gallery, London; A wavy line is drawn across the middle of the original plans, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 2011 Arkhaiologia, Centre PasquArt, Biel 2010 The New Décor, The Hayward Gallery, London 2009 Natural Wonders, Baibakov Art Projects, Moskow
2008 Experimenta Folklore, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main 2007 Weltempfänger, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson Centre d’Art, Nizza 2006 Around The World In 80 Days, ICA, London; The Subversive Charm Of The Bourgeoisie, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Tate Triennal, Tate Britain, London

Opening 25th September h. 6.30pm

Pigna Project Space
via del Gesù , 84 – Roma
Wednesday – Saturday 4pm - 7.30pm or by appointment

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