Amy Sillman, ein Paar
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
September 15 - November 11, 2017
Capitain Petzel presents the second solo exhibition of New York artist AMY SILLMAN at the gallery’s Berlin space. Entitled »ein Paar«, the exhibition takes place on the occasion of this year’s Berlin Art Week.
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
September 15 - November 11, 2017
Capitain Petzel presents the second solo exhibition of New York artist AMY SILLMAN at the gallery’s Berlin space. Entitled »ein Paar«, the exhibition takes place on the occasion of this year’s Berlin Art Week.
Drawing is the starting point and method for this exhibition, an expanded material investigation that moves from painting to animation. Compelled by the implications of the German phrase »ein Paar«, (a couple or a few), the artist has realized pairs and groups of works, including a large di- ptych on canvas, a series of works on paper utilizing both printmaking and gestural drawing, and a video animation combining digital and hand-made layers. Keenly attuned to language itself, Sill- man is interested in generating mismatches, disjunctions, and parapraxis from the materiality of the calligraphic impulse. Her work seems to constantly generate beginnings and transformations: ultimately she registers the process of change itself.
In recent works, Amy Sillman has explored seriality and machine formats, using inkjet-printed canvasses generated from her drawings. In this show, she continues the exploration using silkscreen prin- ting with drawing. In her video »After Metamorphoses«, an endlessly-morphing digital line, which loosely following the narrative of Ovid’s work, »The Metamorphoses«, plays atop a backdrop of process-based inks-on-paper. The video also features a soundtrack by the Berlin-based musician Wibke Tiarks.
Amy Sillman’s new book, »the All-Over«, co-published by Dancing Foxes Press, Portikus, and Mousse Publishing, makes its debut at this exhibition, and is available throughout the show. This fully-illustrated monograph explores Amy Sillman’s work in painting, drawing, and animation, and con- tains essays by curator Manuela Ammer (MuMOK, Vienna) and art historian Yve-Alain Bois.
AMY SILLMAN (born 1955 in Detroit) lives and works in New York City. Since 2015 she has held the position of Professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main. Her works have been recently exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York (2017), Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (2016) and Kunsthaus Bregenz (2015). Her exhibition »one lump or two« originated at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston in 2014, toured the Aspen Art Museum and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York. Her works have been presented, among others, in group shows at Brandhorst Museum, Munich (2015), Tate Modern, London (2015) and MoMA, New York (2014).
CAPITAIN PETZEL
Kark-Marx-Allee 45, 10178 Berlin
You can also read on Wanafoto the post about the first exhibition of Amy Sillman at Capitain Petzel in 2011: Amy Sillman: Thumb Cinema
