Enrique Marty / Tatjana Gerhard
dal 24/5/2013 al 6/7/2013
Segnalato da
24/5/2013
Enrique Marty / Tatjana Gerhard
Deweer Gallery, Otegem
The idea for "Soft Cockney" is Marty's fascination for the tattoo as social phenomenon. The art of painting of Gerhard, "Die neuen Sterblichen (The new Mortals)", still focuses on an absolutely free and associative genesis of motives and images and on a very sensible way of dealing with paint and colours.
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Enrique Marty
Soft Cockney
Shortly after his participations at the Biennales of Venice in 2001 and 2005 and at one of the last great exhibitions by the late Harald Szeemann in PS1, New York (2003-2004), the remarkable Spanish artist Enrique Marty (1969, Salamanca, Spain) was introduced by Deweer Gallery to the Belgian audience. ‘Soft Cockney’ is his fourth one-man show at Deweer Gallery after the spectacular solo shows of 2006, 2008 and 2010. The idea for ‘Soft Cockney’ is Marty’s fascination for the tattoo as social phenomenon; a fascination that provoked a series of sculptures that is now entirely shown for the first time.
The exhibition brings together some 15 life-size sculptural portraits of tattooed persons. Enrique Marty has experimented absolutely freely with the iconographic possibilities of the tattoo. In doing so he at once invented a new way to have his sculptures read as paintings. The same sculptures are discussed in an essay written by Dr. Stefanie Patruno, curator at the Kunsthalle Mannheim who made an exhibition with the artist in 2010, and published in the monographic catalogue the gallery edits at the occasion of the exhibition. The book is the first in the new series of catalogues the gallery will annually publish to illuminate the work of one of its artists. The catalogues’ format is designed by Studio Luc Derycke.
(photo: Enrique Marty, Alberto, 2013, acrylpaint on polyester, Pu foam, human hair, textile, metal, 167 x 75 x 70 cm, detail)
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Tatjana Gerhard
Die neuen Sterblichen
Tatjana Gerhard’s exhibition ‘Die neuen Sterblichen (The new Mortals)’ is to be her second one-person show with Deweer Gallery. Although the art of painting of Tatjana Gerhard (1974, Zurich, Switzerland) still focuses on an absolutely free and associative genesis of motives and images and on a very sensible way of dealing with paint and colours, we unmistakably observe that her newest paintings are characterized by some innovations both in form and content, that strongly recommend a renewed confrontation.
Last year at the occasion of the exhibition ‘Meret’s Sparks’ the Kunstmuseum Bern purchased three paintings by Tatjana Gerhard.
Vernissage 25 May 2013 / 15:00 - 18:00
Deweer Gallery
Tiegemstraat 6A
8553 Otegem Belgium
Hours: We., Thu., Fr. & Su., 14:00 - 18:00
Free Admission