“Grand Opening Part II”群展柏林开幕

“Grand Opening Part II”群展近日在柏林Mathew画廊开幕,参展艺术家包括尼克·莫斯(Nick Mauss)、尼娜(Nina Koennemann)、艾哈迈德(Taslima Ahmed)、史蒂芬(Stefan Thater)、亚娜·欧拉(Jana Euler)以及梅根·弗朗西斯·沙利文(Megan Francis Sullivan)等。这场展览属于Mathew画廊在2011年12月时举办的群展的第二部分,通过这场展览,该画廊再一次证明了其经过漫长等待后终于成为了柏林著名画廊的一份子。虽然人们可以抱怨Mathew画廊通过对推荐的程式化依赖将以内部为基础的艺术界的问题带到了一个新的极端,但值得注意的是Mathew画廊在采用的方法上非常透明,并且没有要求做出独立的发现。另一个之前指出来的缺点——第一场展览中女性艺术家的比例太低——在这场展览中也得到了改正:整场展览几乎由女艺术家占据了统治地位。例如,以布鲁塞尔为基地的亚娜·欧拉(出生于1982年)创作了一幅与新客观主义的审美趣味有关的画作(新客观主义坚持认为身体是生命的“权力游戏”中的中央代理)。



















新闻稿:
经过一个精心策划的群展,2011年12月隆重开幕,第二章的马修现在如下,在新的空间,再次证明自己是一个早该除了已建立的柏林画廊。虽然肯定会抱怨依托建议编程马修内幕的艺术世界新的极端问题是多么重要的注意的是,马修是相当透明的,其做法,不主张孤立的发现。 - 马修的第一个展览的女性艺术家的百分比太低 - 另一个批评点是采取了和纠正在本届展会上,因为它是妇女占主导地位。例如,总部设在布鲁塞尔贾纳欧拉(生于1982年)产生一个松散有关NEUE Sachlichkeit,声称中央代理人作为生活在“权力游戏”(匿名)身体的审美形象。谁希望保持其头部露出水面,显然必须斗争极大,不过几乎淹没。 Taslima艾哈迈德的工作(1983年出生,住在柏林),可以被理解为对当代雕塑的人形返回评注。美工刀在这里形成一个机构,其总部口罩想通。面具不只是点的现成的比喻潜力;而且提醒我们,如人形熟悉的东西的欲望,尤其是在不稳定和不稳定视为次强烈。 Carissa罗德里格斯(生于1970年,生活在纽约)占据运动的圣经,大卫Graeber的债务,作为神物。珍珠耳环的印记放在它提醒我们的事实,“占领”坐落在艺术的世界,包括一时,而不能减少它的“激进的别致的”。还有更多的说,但时间和空间的原因,我会在这里结束。
- 伊莎贝尔Graw
原文
Press Release:
After a grand opening with a carefully curated group exhibition in December 2011, the second chapter of Mathew now follows, in which the new space proves itself again to be a long overdue addition to established Berlin galleries. While one could certainly complain that Mathew takes the problems of an insider-based art world to new extremes by relying programmatically on recommendations it is however important to note that Mathew is rather transparent in its approach and doesn’t claim to make isolated discoveries. Another point of criticism – that the percentage of female artists in Mathew’s first exhibition was too low – is taken up and corrected in the current exhibition, as it is dominated by women. For instance, the Brussels-based Jana Euler (born 1982) produced an image loosely relating to the aesthetic of Neue Sachlichkeit, which asserts the (anonymous) body as the central agent in the “power game” of life. Whoever wishes to keep their head above water, must evidently struggle enormously, and will nevertheless nearly drown. Taslima Ahmed’s work (born 1983, lives in Berlin) can be read as a commentary on the return of the human figure in contemporary sculpture. Here utility knives form a body, whose head is figured by a mask. The mask doesn’t only point to the figurative potential of the readymade; it moreover reminds us that the desire for something as familiar as the human figure is particulary strong in times regarded as precarious and unstable. Carissa Rodriguez (born 1970, lives in New York) presents the bible of the Occupy movement, David Graeber’s Debt, as a fetish. The imprints of pearl earrings placed on it remind us of the fact that “Occupy” when situated in the art world encompasses a moment of “radical chic” while it can´t be reduced to it. There’s more to say, but for reasons of time and space, I will end here.
-Isabelle Graw