Rebecca Agnes
dal 30/10/2008 al 30/1/2009
Segnalato da
30/10/2008
Rebecca Agnes
Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin
The Big Bean Landed on Earth. In this project the artist puts herself naked and tells about the sense of alienation that the individual metropolitan man suffers in constant confrontation with the world around him. However, there is nothing tragic in the narrative style and the aesthetics of the works of this exhibition. On the contrary: Agnes let perceive to the onlooker this theme with irony and poetic vulnerability.
galerie davide gallo has the pleasure to invite you to the solo show "The Big Bean Landed on Earth" by the artist Rebecca Agnes. In this project the artist puts herself naked and tells about the sense of alienation that the individual metropolitan man suffers in constant confrontation with the world around him. However, there is nothing tragic in the narrative style and the aesthetics of the works of this exhibition. On the contrary: Rebecca Agnes let perceive to the onlooker this theme with irony and poetic vulnerability.
The video "The Big Bean Landed on Earth" tells (if you can speak of narration) the story about the birth of a bean on an alien planet; in fact, the plant that produces the bean is also an alien entity. The movement of the bean, of the plant and of the planet that hosts it, is a movement that summarizes various stages of evolution: an early stage, an era of glaciation, the beginning of life ...
However, another motion underlines and marks time; it is a movement in reverse. The clouds and the surrounding landscape seem to flow differently, in the opposite direction, as if to emphasize a circularity in the process of creation. The bean grows in complete autonomy over what goes around, and this autonomy, which has the taste of freedom, carries within it the seed of an illness, a never-ending pain of living that we call alienation. Another issue dear to the artist is the relationship between artificial and not artificial; the balance between these two elements oscillate between harmony and disharmony. Rebecca Agnes never means spontaneity with the term artificial, but the absence of an outside intervention that does not modify the object or the event, but the perception of it.
The theme of circularity, the relationship between perception and object, the game of illusion in art creation, are the leading elements of the work "Libro". Like a book of tales the work opens up and tells itself in a game of false perspectives that the overlap of images cropped and "sewn" represents. Rebecca Agnes has literally cut and sew different images on a computer that she superimposed on the pages of the book, creating a narration at different levels. The work offers a 360 degrees view since reading the book can occur in both directions: from beginning to end and from end to beginning. In addition to this circular motion a second movement is detected in the book: it ranges from general to detail. An island is the subject of the work and the vision from top to bottom is the tool that allows the observer to know the details of what happens .. On this island, suggests Rebecca Agnes, mysterious events occur: cells are analysed, atoms are worked out to develop strange and bizarre entities, which would fit in a garden of delights by Hyeronimus Bosch. In this island, a product of geographical and philosophical alienation, we meet the crucial elements that made the experience of creation possible. In going widespread within the molecules, we encounter the third movement that marks the rhythm of "Libro": time. A dimension not to be confused with experience from memory or signs from the future. Time is an abstract atom unable to record events in an objective way: since the moment is caught, time changes it creating new ones.
The exhibition will remain open until January 2009.
Opening 31st October 2008
Galerie Davide Gallo
Linienstrasse 156 - Berlin
11:00 am to 6:00 pm (from Tuesday to Saturday)
Free admission