MEGAREAL - 21st June 2002
Group show with British artists Andy Harper, Beverley Hood and Swiss artists Franziska Koch, Christian Vetter
ANDY HARPER is an artist based in London who has just completed a 9 month fellowship at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland. Living in Switzerland provided Harper with the necessary change of environment to create a new work. Harper is presenting three paintings from this new series that employ a simple and practical approach to painting. The processes are analogue and hence always remain in a state of ‘near control’. Though at first the paintings seem abstract, their pictorial elements create very possible spaces. The slight differences in each layer of marks, shapes the resultant terrain. Harper is also showing a related set of drawings.
BEVERLEY HOOD is an artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland who has been working in Basel for the past six months on an iaab residency, organised by the Christoph Merian Stiftung. Her work explores issues of physicality, emotion and eroticism in relation to new technologies. For MEGAREAL, Hood shows ‘Loveseats’, six inkjet combining Shunga (Japanese erotica from the 17th&19th century) with International modernist furniture from the 20th century to create a series of humorous and subversive digital collages. The second work showing, ‘Shunga’, again utilises Japanese erotica, this time as an animated projection of 3D computer generated characters, acting out the positions from an original Shunga scrolls.
FRANZISKA KOCH is an artist based in Zurich, Switzerland.
In ‘Ausflug zu Zweit 2002’, projected on the back staircase of K3, we see a man riding the back of a women, as though riding a horse. The combination of both location and image makes it difficult to read and fully understand. Childish play, sexual game, or mere domination, who knows, but a story that is half told is normally a story worth knowing. With a faint sound of classic western mucis, Franziska allows us this space, not-knowing and being untold.
CHRISTIAN VETTER is an artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, who is currentley working in the Binz 39 studios. For MEGAREAL, Christian shows four new paintings which are part of a larger group of works intitled ‘Schwarzwald’. The paintings show pine trees at different times of the day. As a melancholic peace emerges from the paintings, which are less inspired by impressions from nature, but by a longing for a place beyond the opposite of nature and civilisation, a poetic transformation appears.
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