27/11/2014
Katinka Bock & Katja Mater
Kiosk, Ghent
The reflective process that characterizes their work starts with the potential dialogue between the medium and the environment. Bock is mainly focused on the sculptural form, while Mater's work primarily consists of analogue photographic or cinematographic registrations.
KIOSK presents a duo exhibition with work by German artist Katinka Bock (1976)
and Dutch artist Katja Mater (1979).
Both artists explore the boundaries of their medium in explorations of the
possibilities and impossibilities inherent in their materials. The reflective process
that characterizes their work starts with an observation of the exhibition context and
a contemplation of the potential dialogue between the medium and the environment.
Bock and Mater both work toward ‘outcomes’ that carry a transformative potential.
Katinka Bock is mainly focused on the sculptural form, while Mater’s work primarily
consists of analogue photographic or cinematographic registrations of intermediate
interventions.
Katja Mater creates abstract geometric compositions on paper, on objects, or directly
onto a spatial context. The compositions are captured by means of a deliberate set of
rules that provide a sense of direction in Mater’s boundless exploration of the tension
between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional.
At KIOSK, Mater uses the exhibition walls and floor surface as a canvas for the site-
specific composition
Fields on a Line
. The realization of the painted work is captured
by a camera that repeatedly travels a predetermined path throughout the rooms.
Different moments are thus layered in time, and parallel spaces unfold in front of the
lens. The track covered by the camera eye and the added timeline that emerges in
the process, are transposed and visualized on multiply exposed film. The result is a
16mm video installation with the exhibition space as a residue.
Katinka Bock’s sculptures and installations consist of natural materials such as clay,
wood, sand, water and bronze, as well as everyday objects like chairs or lemons.
These materials are selected for their colour, qualities, and primary energy. Their
intrinsic characteristics are considered in relation to the historical and architectural
foundations of the space and to the objects in their constellation, and are translated
into sculptures that often display a radical austerity.
For her show
Nebenwege
at KIOSK, Bock combines existing objects with a new work
in progress in which she uses changeable materials like water, salt, textile and a sheet
of copper to create a fluid result that escapes complete control and only reveals itself
fully at the very end of the exhibition.
Image: Katinka Bock Landschaft unter dem Tisch, 2009. Holz, Terracotta 70x70x60cm
Press contact:
Liene Aerts Phone: +32 9 2670191 liene.aerts@hogent.be
Opening Friday 28 November 2014
Press and professional preview (by appointment): 2pm – 8pm
Public opening: 8pm
KIOSK
Louis Pasteurlaan 2 9000 Ghent
Hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 2pm – 6pm
Saturday – Sunday: 11am – 6pm
Closed on Mondays
Closed on Monday through Thursday during the end-of-year period (22.12.2014 - 04.01.2015)