17/06/2021
"" - Michael Klipphahn & Anna Nero
We are very happy to announce the next exhibition from the series "" presenting works by Michael Klipphahn (Dresden) and Anna Nero (Frankfurt am Main) on Friday, 02. 07. 2021. Please join us at STUDIOSPACE Lange Strasse 31, Frankfurt am Main, 7 - 11 pm.
In the ongoing ""series, two artistic positions are placed face to face in the antechamber of STUDIOSPACE Lange Strasse 31. The artists react directly to selected works, or pre-existing works are being placed together. These two "different" positions meet one another for a limited time in a determined space. As dialogue is entered, the works either resonate harmoniously or clash.
On Friday the 02nd of July 2021, STUDIOSPACE Lange Strasse 31 will present works by artists Michael Klipphahn and Anna Nero.
In the third exhibition of the series, Anna Nero's symbolically charged painting, which ironically oscillates between form, object, and its dissolution, creating spaces that oscillate back and forth between the image of a virtual space and a kind of retro clash, meets Michael Klipphahn's realistic stock photographs, which painterly pose the question of motif and distance, image and likeness, kitsch and commerce, surface and body, and are thereby projection surfaces of the longing for identity and individuality.
The event is kindly supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt and Frauenreferat Frankfurt.
About artists:
Michael Klipphahn belongs to a generation of artists who, as so-called "digital natives," no longer have to think about the content of image information from the Internet but rather make use of it. These artists see the data volume of the Internet as just as much a factual reality as the non-virtual world. Part of this self-image is the knowledge that for the broader masses, images of painting from the Internet are more relevant than a visit to a museum. That is why the Dresden artist is interested in, among other things, the prettified from the world of digitally generated posters, magazines and advertising campaigns, and there above all, the optics, the smoothness and the surface. The viewer in his works is confronted with a compelling aesthetic, despite the small image details, which initially subscribes to hyperrealism. But this word falls short and means only a small insight into the scope of action and the artist's performance, who branches off his resources quite unabashedly from the data stream of the WWW. In addition to the exaggerated reality that we believe we perceive, the viewer sees poses and postures that deliberately prescribe a certain viewing hierarchy. At this point, it is perhaps not the gesture shown or the image itself that is aggressive, but how the artist surreptitiously foists a voyeuristic gaze on the viewer. By no means is anything offensive meant here, more fixation on an apparent significance paired with quasi-religious elements of mass consumption. The artist is concerned with creating a form of distance that does not generate motifs but rather a dictated distance that he assumes from what is shown or depicted.
Stephan Franck, M.A. Dresden
Anna Nero: I'm interested in the possibilities of representation. When does colour become an object or space? I approach banal and mundane things with the help of painting. I breathe life into them or occupy the world with my invented objects whose function can only be guessed at. Blobs, colour bulges and gestures mutate into objects - or even subjects - flirt with each other or repel each other. Form boards of directors, conglomerates, empires! I scratch the surface of all things, their texture, materiality, functionality, context, and even their essence or agenda. Another aspect of the content of my work is the theme of s*x and s*xuality. This is primarily derivative of my exploration of fe**shism and lustful or loving human-ding relationships. I am interested in fe**sh both on the s*xual level and its original role as a cult object, relic or idol.
Sonja Müller, the founder of Frankfurter Kranz, has been commissioned to write an essay about the evening's exhibition, which will be released on the digital platform of Studio Space Lange Strasse 31 after the event.
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