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14/4/2004

Dannielle Tegeder, Jeroen Jacobs

mullerdechiara, Berlin

Dannielle Tegeder ­ Cities of Construct: Underground Plans of Risk and Desire
Jeroen Jacobs ­ Dizzy Heights for New Insights

müllerdechiara is pleased to announce the opening of our new exhibition presenting the works of New York-based artist, Dannielle Tegeder and Berlin-based, Dutch artist, Jeroen Jacobs.

Architectural blueprints, underground and air transportation paths, biotechnological illustration charts, and diagrams of plumbing and heating systems are the mundane details of our daily lives ­ technical abstractions of the functions of society. Using these technical systems as inspiration and moreover as source material, Dannielle Tegeder abstracts these schematics once again into a carefully formulated, visual vocabulary. The resulting paintings and drawings are a unique combination of abstract painting and utopian city planning.

Dannielle Tegeder's works are created from an evolving list of iconic elements, used like a box of crayons with which to configure and visualize underground plans of fictional cities. Referring to these fantastical structures as 'safety cities', Tegeder weaves escape routes, safety vessels, 'love dot boilers' and countless other infrastructural capacities into her subterranean landscapes.

Jeroen Jacobs will be constructing a new roof for the gallery ­ to be installed for the exhibition just centimeters off the floor. The architectural intervention will not only transform the gallery space, but also manipulate the visitor's experience. Jacobs has appropriated and manually recreated a typically inconspicuous, purely utilitarian flat-roof. The hand-crafted simulation is complete with the odors of rough tar-paper, and even though there is no great danger of falling off the hand-crafted simulation, the situation is none-the-less destabilizing. By bringing this unfamiliar plateau down underfoot, Jacobs subtly heightens the individual¹s experience with the structure itself.

By manually rebuilding and thus isolating objects and structures such as roofs, garage doors, airplane wings and complete or fragmented architectural forms, Jeroen Jacobs maintains a critical distance from these motifs while simultaneously affording a striking intimacy with what would otherwise be our unremarkable surroundings. The work of Jacobs is rooted in the consumption of its very own creation, where the mundane becomes effectively significant not because its mere (re)creation but rather through the individual's atypical interaction with the object itself. The extrication and re-contextualizing involved with Jacobs' simulations aestheticizes both form and experience.

Opening April 15th, 6 pm
Exhibition Open from April 15th through May 29th, Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 7 pm

For further information please contact Laurie De Chiara or Scott Weaver at the gallery

müllerdechiara is participating in the art fair MACO in Mexico City from May 12th through 16th, 2004.

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weydingerstr. 10
10178 berlin
tel. +49-30-390320-40 fax ­44

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