Next to the Dream Watching exhibition of drawings and murals by Gert-Jan Akerboom in Room I, Kunstraum Richard Sorge presents a summer accrochage: A titillating selection of arts, crafts, and painting.
Featuring (a.o.)
Peeter Allik - EST (linocut/lithoprint) pdf
The masterful linocuts of Estonian artist Peeter Allik explore Europe's traditional values, murderous ideologies and not quite so innocent folklore. The work is traditional in appearance, refreshingly sarcastic in tone.
Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė - LT (embroidery on scrap metal) pdf
Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė takes pleasure in things that are only insignificant details to most people. Urbane concepts of beauty and utilitarian things inspire and form the basis of her work. Placing kitsch in a new context allows her to reveal her personal experience and point of view.
Garth Johnson - USA (recycled collector's plates) pdf
Strich & Faden II presents recycled overpainted Hümmel collector's plates by Garth Johnson, the Eureka, CA based writer, artist and tireless hyperactive educator known for his "raging craft problem". His website, Extreme Craft is a "compendium of art masquerading as craft, craft masquerading as art and craft raising its middle finger".
Ai Kijima - USA (quilted collage) pdf
"Ai Kijima was born and raised in Tokyo, attended high school in Wisconsin, and currently lives in New York
City. She tirelessly combs through thrift stores for novelty fabrics and combines them with timeless vintage fabrics. The result is an impeccably crafted narrative that has both humor and depth." - Garth Johnson, Extreme Crafts 2008
Charles Krafft - USA (sculpture/ceramics) pdf
After years toiling as "the oldest promising young artist in the Pacific Northwest," Charles Krafft became known internationally in the 90's for subversive works in clay that were among the first to invest craft objects with serious and sarcastic content starkly contrasting with their perceived image. In Strich & Faden, Krafft presents new work made of bread as well.
Charles Krafft uses and undermines the ethnocentrism and traditionalism of craft objects to comment on "resurgent regionalism", war, politics and disaster. The way Charles Krafft eschews the usual careerism in the arts and finds alternative ways, is just as radical and political, as is the choice of influences: 60's comix, and the aesthetics and themes of Industrial-, surf- and custom car cultures.
Nava Lubelski - USA (embroidery) pdf
The artist is known for her witty, stylistically elaborate feminist parodies of the classic drip painting, in which she plays with the contrast between male/female and action/reflection. Lubelski invites us to reflect on the cultural meaning of the stain and mending, and woman's relation to it.
David Rios Ferreira - USA (gouache painting) pdf
Blending folklore with personal narrative, Ferreira's drawings and videos explore the construction and deconstruction of self, drawing upon the hybridity of culture, ethnicity, language
and sexuality.
Hunter Stabler - USA (paper cutting) pdf
Hunter Stabler creates delicate multi-layered hand-cut paper compositions of elaborate patterning and religious/mythological symbols. His work involves a formal play between the illusion of space, actual physical shadow, and the flat two-dimensions of the paper.
Sztuka Fabryka - BE (street-art/social sculpture) pdf
While most Street-artists are obsessed with appearing "urban" and in rehashing the same old hip hop cultural "urban" themes end up looking quite suburban, Sztuka Fabryka brilliantly breaks through the restrictive and tired ideology of Street-art by going rural, introducing traditional, regionalist, folkloristic and even religious themes and designs.
Open: July 8 - August 31, 2009
Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, 3 - 7 pm,
and by appointment.
