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Astrid Köppe - it's a flat world |
Private View: Friday, June 11th 2010 6–9 pm
Duration of the show: 11.6. – 31.7. 2010
The world according to Astrid Köppe...is flat. It takes place on the plain surfaces of paper and enamel steel sheets. At the same time her cosmos of objects, plants and animal-like phenomena are tremendously vivid, haptically tangible and enriched through an allure of the surface.
The motives of the Berlin based artist, born in 1974 have their origin in specific experiences and observations. Associatively she transforms her visual knowledge into her own fantastic bizarre universe. In the same way, the spectator approaches the result captured in the drawing, also through association. You might see all kinds of things in them: furniture, underwear, purses, bizarre objects between absurdity and sensuality.
You can never be sure. The objects are located somewhere between the familiar and the unfamiliar. As if suddenly captured in a metamorphosis, or put in a different way: digital morphing stopped halfway. But the viewer is forced to return to ones own perception, that has the greatest possible ambiguity. Despite the clearly recognisable textures: fur, plush, hair, or sting, the specific character of the object continuously spurns irritation.
On the bigger enamels the objects have a stronger pictogramic character. Outlines are sharper and clearer, and through their strong figurative presence they appear almost as logos even though their message still remains enigmatic. The diversity of the materials used in the drawings are replaced by the interaction of the glittering light on the different layers of enamel.
Astrid Köppe will together with Bertram Hasenauer be presented at this year’s artfair the solo project in Basel.
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