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Lea Asja Pagenkemper |
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Corner the Love, 2010, Oil, chrome paint on canvas, 180x155 cm It Hurts When You Get Too Close, 2010, Oil, chrome paint on canvas, 165x140 cm Solace, 2008, Oil, chrome paint on canvas, 155 x 140 cm Z, 2007, Oil, spray paint on canvas, 170x200 cm
Corner the Love, 2010, Oil, chrome paint on canvas, 180x155 cm
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In her
recent works, Lea Asja Pagenkemper (1976, Berlin) has frequently
explored the emptiness of the picture’s surface; of landscape elements
that seem to lose themselves in a poetic space. Despite the emptiness,
Pagenkemper’s works always relate to ‘setting boundaries’ and ‘the other
person’s territory’, taking possession of a dark street corner that
Pagenkemper zooms in on in her paintings, or the meadow landscape that
seems to be withdrawn from the viewer. The word ‘graffiti’ often comes
up in descriptions of her work. Graffiti has everything to do with
marking out territory, but Pagenkemper’s work is characterised by a
boundless freedom in terms of media and the means by which she endows
her work with significance. In her latest works, Pagenkemper draws her
inspiration from musical lyrics. She attempts to give add an acoustic
dimension to the image, for example by means of direct reference to the
lyrics of a song. How Pagenkemper manages to find the right field of
tension between word and image only becomes clear in the actual
execution of the work. Sometimes the inspiration comes from an image as
it emerges; sometimes it comes from the lyrics of a song, or a certain
literary sentence that rises from the depths of memory and demands an
appropriate visual image. Words and images reinforce each other and all
contribute to her complex paintings.
Lea
Asje Pagenkemper studied under the tutelage of Georg Baselitz at the
Universität der Künste in Berlin. After graduating in 2004, she
continued studying under Baselitz to attain a Master’s Degree in 2005.
Lea Asja Pagenkemper has exhibited her work at (among others) Galerie
Jette Rudolph in Berlin (2005, 2007), Museum Elgiz in Istanbul (2005)
and Fondation La Maison Rouge in Paris (2004) (Sammlung Falckenberg).
In 2008 she took part in ‘Cobra to Contemporary, The collection of Hugo
and Carla Brown’, presented by Artnews Projects in Berlin. In 2011 her
work will be on display at Art Los Angeles Contemporary in the United
States, and in 25 + 25 at Kunstverein Ettlingen Wilhelmshöne in
Germany. |
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