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Press Release
Dafni Barbageorgopoulou
Bright Pointed Arch
In
the Attachment:
Anne Wenzel
Requiem of Heroism
January 14 – February 19
Opening January 14, 5 – 7 pm
AKINCI is proud to present the first solo exhibition by the Greek/South
African Dafni Barbageorgopoulou (1977,Johannesburg, SA). At AKINCI,
Dafni Barbageorgopoulou presents the installation Bright Pointed Arch,
which aims to create a passage from the imaginary to the material
dimension through the use of collage. Barbageorgopoulou has created a
two dimensional geometrical pattern transferred into a wooden
space-occupying floor installation and a large-scale wall tapestry.
Dafni
Barbageorgopoulou’s practise focuses on the mapping of sculptural forms
into space, the outcome of which brings together qualities that are
ancient, and futuristic at once. Looking at the dreaming and travelling
experience, her working process investigates the ways in which materials
can be configured to capture nuances of systems of mind and matter.
Central to this inquiry is the exploration of bodily experience, seeing
the body as a sensor of rhythm, with a ritualistic/erotic pulse towards
transformation.
Dafni Barbageorgopoulou
(b. 1977 Johannesburg, SA) lives and works in Berlin. She studied
sculpture at the Athens Fine Arts Academy (BFA) and at the Royal College
of Arts in London (MA, 2006). She participated at the Liverpool Biennial
(2006) and amongst other shows her work was featured at the Tint Gallery
in Thessaloniki (2009) with most recent the Zone D – by Zoumboulakis
galleries in Athens (2010).
In
our attachment space, we will show a part of the installation Requiem of
Heroism by Anne Wenzel. Requiem of Heroism was first seen at the museum
Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam in 2010 and consists of a monumental
installation of floral wreaths: a universal symbol for the commemoration
of the fallen of war. A large floral wreath, with smaller wreathes
strewn around it formed the core of the installation in the large hall
of the museum. In the cabinets of the museum Wenzel placed smaller
floral wreaths on plinths or hanging on the walls of the alcoves. These
works express an immense, ponderous gravity, but surprise at the same
time by the fragile organic beauty of the withered flowers.
Based since 1992 in the Netherlands, German-born
Anne Wenzel diverts the tradition of ceramics into remarkable sculptures
and installations. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and apocalyptic
obsessions inspire these dark works that are perfect metaphors of our
time. Wenzel’s sculptures transform images in order to isolate both
their beauty and their deathly dimension. Wenzel says: “I am interested
in taking forms that everyone immediately associates with a specific
context, reducing them to their most basic element and examining the
extent to which form can be regarded separately from content.”
Anne Wenzel (b. 1972 in Schüttorf, DE) lives and works in Rotterdam.
Wenzel had solo shows at the
Shepparton Art Gallery, Sidney (2010), Museum
Boijmans van Beuningen (2010), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2009),
Stedelijk Museum in Den Bosch (2008), Museum Het Princessehof in
Leeuwarden (2008), Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (2007), Buro Leeuwarden
(2006) and The Agency in London (2006).
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