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5/12/2002

Holy Spirits

Galerie Wieland, Berlin

Ulf Aminde | Thomas Raschke | Yorgos Sapountzis | Mara Wagenfuehr

opening: Friday, December 6, 2002, 7pm-9pm
duration: December 7, 2002 - January 18, 2003

galerie wieland is pleased to announce "Holy Spirits," a group show of four artists featuring artworks that manifest various aspects of religious representation and objects. Questions concerning faith, worship and adoration are posed, as well as diverse forms of sacral insignia.

Ulf Aminde builds shrines where terms like "appointment," "contacts," or "profit" are offered for devotion or prayers. His "word shrines" were presented this summer during the Berlin literature festival at various relevant places throughout the Mitte area. In the present installation they have been transferred from the public realm to the gallery space - thus becoming reliquaries themselves.

Thomas Raschke, who presented three-dimensional drawings in the gallery last year in his solo exhibition "wire frames," will show a group of new works: "Monstrance," "Rosary," and "Reliquary" constitute empty shells and containers made from simple soldered iron wire instead of the precious gold and gems usually associated with such ecclesiastical objects.

The sculpture "Turk" by Yorgos Sapountzis resembles a piece of decorative architecture – a cast showing a suffering face – rendered in shiny black fabric. The agonized and tortured expression is amplified by the material and its presentation. The head has been obsessively and painstakingly pinned together with thousands of needles, allowing the object to retain its form and shifting it into the realm of S&M and fetish.

Mara Wagenfuehr's paintings and installations take us back to our teenage dreams. Recalling her own ecstatic youthful admiration for pop stars, she poses them within altarpiece-like settings as if they were religious icons. Related to the domestic shrines found in many traditional Mexican households, her canvases are affectionately decorated with sequins, gold, glitter, feathers and embroidery.

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