Sebastiaan Bremer
dal 6/11/2003 al 17/1/2004
Segnalato da
6/11/2003
Sebastiaan Bremer
Galerie Barbara Thumm (old location), Berlin
For his first solo show in Berlin, Sebastian Bremen presents "You've made your mother cry" featuring the latest group of works by the New York based Dutch artist.
Sebastiaan Bremer draws with ink pens and retouching inks onto photographs which all derive from old private family albums or pictures from friends, or photographs he took himself. Bremer weaves a fine web of pointilist drawings across the surface of the photographs, creating a komplex pattern
of dot drawings.
"This allows washed-out milky landscapes of surreal scenes and fragmentary details to emerge out of the photographic background. "As if by magic, faces and objects hover on the surface, as if they had detached themselves from the details of the photograph. Sometimes the cloudlike fields of dots also rebel against the photographed picture spaces, breaking out of their given perspectives and expanding into ludicrously jagged figures, in psychedelic doodle graffiti style." (Harald Fricke)
Bremer evokes subconscious assoziations and free floating memories. His creation of meditative drawings recalls the surrealistic photo manipulations of Hans Bellmer or Lucas Samaras. Without getting sentimental he mirrors melancholic narrations of dissappointments and loss, but also opens up our often frustrating, tense reality to new poetic and imaginative possibilities.
On the occasion of the exhibition Galerie Barbara Thumm will publish a catalogue which has been made possible by the generous support of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin as well as the Mondriaan Stichting, Amsterdam.
The date for the catalogue release will be announced at the beginning of January 2004.
Galerie Barbara Thumm
Dircksenstrasse 41
10247 Berlin
Tel +49.30. 283 90 347
Fax +49.30. 283 90 457