Stefanie Kagi
dal 11/11/2014 al 12/12/2014
Segnalato da
11/11/2014
Stefanie Kagi
Hauser Gallery, Zurich
Toast Maryland. For this exhibition the artist presents a new series of paintings in which she uses satellite imagery as templates for her embroidery. She converts these digital landscape pictures into a material and above all haptic medium.
“Only the unpredictable makes the plan a challenge.” - Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck Seeger, chemist
The young artist Stefanie Kägi also works with this element of the unpredictable. In her current artworks she examines the traditional craft of embroidery. The needle and thread are her paintbrush and paint. Layer by layer, stitch by stitch, she creates topographic formations.
Following this technique, in her new series of works she uses satellite imagery as templates for her embroidery. She converts these digital landscape pictures into a material and above all haptic medium. She also transforms a third dimension back into a second dimension, and digital techniques revert back to analogue.
Furthermore, she uses these connections and transformations to consciously question the relationships between the picture and materiality. What are the conditions? How can they become material manifestations? She attempts to find the answers to these questions in her paintings, in which she uses paint like material. Paint’s physical qualities make it suitable to experimentation. It is smudged, layered, shaped, overlapped, and then penetrated again. Her aim is to allow the viewer to experience the qualities and functions of the picture as well as its perception in surfaces and space.
The artist does not search for clear motifs or statements per se. Rather, she is interested in the process of becoming visible, whose outcome remains uncertain, but reveals a profound composition.
Stefanie Kägi (*1987, Winterthur) lives and works in Berlin. She studied art from 2008 to 2013 at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2014 she was awarded a Batolit residency in Vienna. Her works have been shown in various exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany and New York.
Opening: 12 November 2014 from 18:00 - 21:00.
Hauser Gallery
Pflanzschulstrasse 17
8004 Zürich
Hours: Wed - Fri 14:00 - 18:00, or by appointment