Karin Sander
dal 1/11/2012 al 21/12/2012
Segnalato da
1/11/2012
Karin Sander
Esther Schipper, Berlin
h = 400 cm. Within the framework of her first solo exhibition at the gallery, she reworks the space applying three mutually complimentary interventions. She allows the viewer to experience the ephemerality of the gallery space and the revision of a particular order the space was put under.
Karin Sander
h = 400 cm
2 November - 22 December 2012
Esther Schipper is pleased to present h = 400 cm, the first exhibition of Karin Sander at the gallery.
Since the early 1990s, Karin Sander’s work has been conceptual, site-specific and spatial. She focuses on the existing, but not always obviously visible structures.
Within the framework of her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Sander reworks the space applying three mutually complimentary interventions. Upon her encounter with the architecturally modified space, her reaction is radical: she transforms the space back into its former state. This is not an act of restoring, but can rather be seen as an analytical gesture. It allows the viewer to experience the ephemerality of the gallery space and the revision of a particular order the space was put under. Sander extracts the vertical plane and brings it to a horizontal position, thus making the walls into something that communicates between floor, ceiling and the other walls.
On the very “base” - the floor - in the second gallery space Sander however adds something: a rug that has specially been made for the space. It shows the invisible lines and measurements of the gallery’s floor plan. In this way Sander not only intertwines the different functionalities of construction planning and architectural design, constructive rationality and ornamental décor, but also occupies a definitional space in between.
The stripped wall surfaces become the space for showing a series of 65 of the artist's Hair Drawings, which can be seen as alternatives to the gesture of drawing: a composition of hairs that have been dropped on a sheet of paper. These drawings pin something like the grammar of an “architecture of drawing” as a collection of fine individual, organic lines against the wall.
(Clemens Krümmel)
Karin Sander, born in Bensberg, lives and works in Berlin and Zurich. She studied art and art history at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart and at the I.S.P., Independent Study / Studio Program, I.S.P. Whitney Museum, New York. Her solo exhibitions include: Kernbohrungen, nbk, Berlin (2011); Gebrauchsbilder und Andere, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; (2010); Zeigen. Eine Audio-Tour durch Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (2009), 1:9, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Deutschland (2002). She took part in various group shows, including: Neuen Museum Weserburg, Bremen (2011); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; 9th Sharjah Biennale, UAE (2009); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2006); Skulptur. Projekten Münster (1997). Karin Sander holds a professorship at ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule / Department of Architecture) Zurich.
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