Small, private galleries make up the humus for a creative atmosphere in Neukölln. Kartüche is not only part of the local bohemia, but manages to put a small corner of the borough on a larger map.
The Kartüche gallery
opened its exhibition last weekend with graphic works by the South
Korean artist Kwanyoung Jung, metal sculptures and etchings by
German-Tunisian blacksmith Latifa Sayadi. Jung's poetical, abstract
landscapes are minutely drawn line compositions. His large format
canvases play with ideas of multitude, repetition and perspective. At
first fascinated by their monochrome palette, you soon discover they
change their reflection, like water or mirrors do.
Verrückt,
Sayadi's thin, metal
sculpture playfully inhabits the centre of the second room.
What makes a normally
rigid-looking object playful? This one slightly bends when you get
closer. And there you have it: movement ('rücken') and the state of
being crazy ('verrückt') in one! It is not the first time Latifa
Sayadi's forms play with words (see Geträumte Eindrücke
or L'Impasse de la
Liberté).
The rest is yours to discover.
“This
exhibition could have taken placed anywhere: in Berlin-Mitte or
London”, said a visitor I couldn't help overhearing. And this was,
no doubt, a compliment paid to good art.
'0
Grad'
October
5-November 3, 2012
Wed-Sat:
3-6 pm and by app.
kARTüche
Gallery, Leykestr. 17a, Berlin
Exhibition views with Hügel by Kwanyoung Jung and Verrückt by Latifa Sayadi
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