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Kathrin Köster
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| Kate V Robertson, pillar's replica |
Spatial vocabulary,
developed by Kathrin Köster and Kate V Robertson: each piece refers to the
conditions and particularities of the space. Artworks adapting so closely to
their environment that they risk remaining undiscovered – incidental pieces.
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| Kathrin Köster, canvas object up to the street |
A brick-made wall suggests
to us stability and safety. The visually perfect brick-made column by Kate V
Robertson we see in the first room is a latex replica from the „real“ column in
the second room. It’s materiality questions our understanding of stability. The
perception of hardness and softness changes, the softness becoming a symbol of
the insecure – what if the whole building was constructed of soft materials?
Two round elements of fake
marble decorating the raw wall, a powdered incidence of light in the alcove at the rear part and a wall
drawing showing an abstract symbol with two elements join the column in the
first room. The two elements of the drawing are found again three-dimensionally
in the other room where they are the middle part of a canvas-sculpture by
Kathrin Köster that is leading out of the exhibition space to the street above.
A second canvas-sculpture sits on the tubes beneath the ceiling pretending to
be an inherent part of the space. A wall drawing by both artists in the shape
of a circle corresponds with roundly-shaped wooden sculpture in the corridor.
An ink-dripping tube coming from the ceiling joins the ordinary tubes. A bulb
in the wall between purpose and accident.
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| upper pictures: Kathrin Köster / bottom pictures Kathrin Köster and Kate V Robertson |
The single works form a web
of correspondances with the space or with other pieces, the whole exhibition is
a covert presentation of site-specific and piece-specific interventions. With
Kate V Robertson humourously turning local conditions into questions about
their relevance and our perception, and Kathrin Köster bringing in a more
mythical, painting-related way of working. Both artists very consciously worked
with the form of making an exhibition.
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| left: Kathrin Köster, canvas object / middle & right: Kate V Robertson, bulb and ink dripping-tube. |
