Galerie Crystal Ball

Opening of the exhibition on Fri. 14th. October at 8 p.m.
14.10. – 26.11.2011

In her work Ioana Alexe reproduces in various ways pictures, icons and objects of the art world. The mediated appearance and manner of transfer convey the intentions of the artist. In her video work “Untitled” Ioana Alexe puts back painting to its time-based context of creation. As such she reproduces one of Gerhard Richter’s famous candle series cinematically and traces in a “Performance of an Image” the burning candle for 7 hours and 39 minutes. Essentially, it is not so much the mere reset of the iconography of the imagery, but its deviation in the display of lost images, represented by recorded moments of the slowly burning and expiring candle. With the activated relation between a recollected well known image to its cover version, a “fictional” unspectacular documentary, interpretation amplifies about personal impressions using the pretended dissolution of the quotation.

In the semidarkness of the exhibition Ioana Alexe shows in connected installations a table with books. Volumes out of wood in different sizes are the basis for reproduced and hard covers. Sensitively painted dummies: Art books and anthologies operate here as doubles whose viewing expresses concealment. In a denial of the object in which also a personal language is preferred instead of a precise copying, the subject is art itself and its displaced signification. The artist works with both complex and deficit strategies of transmitting images into a new vision. With smooth adjustments Ioana Alexe shows that there are several options for interpretation that are relevant for its proposition. The impact is a wide perspective which articulates the subjective and doesn’t exclude it in its appreciation.

Exhibition opening on Friday, 24. June 2011 at 8 p.m.
Finissage and concert on Fri. 22. July 2011 from 8 p.m:
Hedi Mohr, Royal Chord and DJ Catastrophe

With a remarkable ease Annette Stemmann is working on an independant position that states universals and individualty as an equal midway in painting. In her colourful lucent pictures reigns a misterious complexity that resist to a definte descryption.

In the exhibition, next to drawings, the artist shows segmented panels. The painting base grows above the classical square, expanding over the walls. Like an organic process in the composition, itself affecting relations accure. A poetical simultaneity who plays in a compendium with the impact of its parts. Its a collection of impressions, urban scenes and time and again the human figure, drafted, finds itself next to plastic figures, left over plaything, myth and legendary creatures, icons from the sphere of everyday life. Like crossing a landscape our view changes, impressions touch, stronger images remain but solve in total.

Annette Stemmanns´ paintings are working with different phrases, concreteness and abstraction, ornament and surface, excerpt and omission. Impressions compete and examine a hierarchy of images without never execute it. Her specially own disengaged working method shows up in balanced compositions whose resistance can be seen as a imperceptible commentary, a brave countenance to actual art discourse

Installation/ Objects
Opening on Fri. 4. March 2011 at 8 p.m., with a concert by Senor Depressiv

Frank Schoppmeier’s objects and installations create new levels of meaning and possible image theories by combining various iconographic references. The layers and pictorial means used point to our visual memory in their historical pop-cultural relationship. A fleeting image reception, with its learned and categorizing effects, acts like a blind spot in our constituted order. The artist works with the shifts of these boundaries, on the perception and analysis of an irritating pop art.