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All Tomorrow's Ruins

Tracey Snelling, Lee Maelzer, Thibault Brunet

Eröffnung: 09.10.2021, 14-22 Uhr Kuratorenführung 16 Uhr, auf Englisch alle Künstler werden anwesend sein

10.10. - 31.10.2021, Mi-So 14-18 Uhr

Finissage: 31.10.2021, 14-18 Uhr Kuratorenführung 16 Uhr, auf Englisch Tracey Snelling wird anwesend sein

Lee Maelzer, Stones & Pylons, 2017, Collage auf Papier © L. Maelzer

Künstler waren schon immer von Ruinen fasziniert. Als Spuren einer vergangenen Zeit erinnern sie daran, dass auch unser Arbeitsprodukt zur Ruine werden soll. Ruinen sind eine Quelle sowohl für die Interpretation unserer Geschichte als auch für die Vorstellung unserer Zukunft. Die drei präsentierten Künstler*innen rücken die Ruine in den Mittelpunkt ihrer Arbeit, fokussieren sich auf ihre Entstehung und Entwicklung und schöpfen aus der allgegenwärtigen Bilderflut in Online-Nachrichten, Magazinen und Filmen. Auf dem Weg zum Selbstverschwinden lassen diese Bilder so neue Formen entstehen, an der Grenze zwischen Fotografie und anderen Medien. Brunets Boîte Noire ist eine Reihe von Renderings – auf Papier und Wandteppichen – die aus einem 3D-Raum stammen, der aus Tausenden von Internetbildern von Ruinen aus dem Krieg in Syrien modelliert wurde. Die Collagen von Maelzer präsentieren apokalyptische und lyrische Visionen – futuristische Hypothesen, die aus verschiedenen Spuren die wir in Städten, in der Natur und sogar im Weltraum hinterlassen, zusammengesetzt sind. In ihren Installationen stellt Snelling Teile der chinesischen Städte Chongqing und Yangzhou sowie des urbanen Dorfes Caochangdi nach, mit modernen Hochhäusern und provisorischen Unterkünften, die vor ebenso grellen wie vergänglichen Bildern überquellen. (Sonia Voss)

Thibault Brunet, Boîte Noir, 2020, Wandteppich © T. Brunet

Tracey Snelling, Wang's House, 2009 (courtesy of Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels) © T. Snelling

ARTISTS’ BIOS:

Thibault Brunet, based in Paris, has developed a practice based on real and imaginary topographies and virtually generated images, using technologies such as 3D scanners, computer software and video games. Brunet graduated from the Paul Valéry University in Montpellier and the Nîmes Art Academy. His work has been presented in numerous solo shows in France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany (EMOP Berlin 2012) and in group exhibitions, among others, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Spinnerei, Leipzig. He is the winner of the 2019 MAD/ADAGP Artist Book Revelation Award, the 2016 Photo London John Kobal Residency Award, the 2014 PMU/Le Bal Carte Blanche Award, the 2013 FOAM Talent Award, and the 2012 BNF Bourse du Talent Award. He was part of the 2011 edition of reGeneration2 at Lausanne’s Musée de l’Élysée. During a residency at the Institut Français in New York, Brunet began his Boîte Noire series, creating a virtual 3D space from online media photos of the war ruins in Syria.

Lee Maelzer is a London based artist. Her practice spans from painting to collages made with found photographs that evoke uncanny environments and situations, often raising questions about the tension between nature and the urban environment. Maelzer studied at Central St Martins College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London. Since 2005, she has had nine solo exhibitions in the UK and has exhibited internationally in numerous group shows. She has also curated several exhibitions in London galleries. She received the Bryan Robertson Trust Award 2019, the Abbey Fellowship 2004 at The British School at Rome, participated twice in Bloomberg ARTFutures, and took part in several residency programs in Europe, Tunisia, Mexico, and the US. Her work was featured in The Age of Collage 3 (Gestalten Books). Among other academic positions, Maelzer is a senior lecturer in Fine Art at the University of East London.

Tracey Snelling is an American artist living and working in Berlin. Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, she gives a personal impression of a place, its people and their experience. Snelling has exhibited in international museums and institutions and has had solo shows throughout the US, as well as in China, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, and Italy. She received the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2015), a fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan (2017), an Artist Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2017/2018), and the Foundwork Art Prize (2020). She produced commissioned works at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt and Facebook in California. Her installation Shanghai/Chongqing Hot pot/Mixtape was presented in the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale 2019 and her Maüsebunker at the UIAV during the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2020.