 Karen Kilimnik Karen Kilimnik's world of pictures constitutes the fantastic surrogate of a dream world collaged from media images that we come across in fashion magazines, adverts, TV movies and popular fiction every day. In her drawings, made with delicate, uneasy chalk strokes and occasionally with vigorous acrylic shadings, the artist examines her celebrity idols, commenting on and analysing their crises and scandals with scribbled notes veering between gossip, headline and diary entry, in a passionately affirmative fashion sometimes tinged with a sardonic edge. By disengaging her illustrious protagonists from their habitual context, she has them play a part in her own imaginary world, where she randomly, but in equal measures, mixes fact and fiction, glamorous icons both of current pop culture and aristocratic history to create new dramatic choreographies Ausstellungsdauer: 16.3. - 11.5.2002 Oeffnungszeiten: Di-Fr 12-18 Uhr, Sa 11-16 Uhr Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber Löwenbräum-Areal Limmatstrasse 270 8005 Zürich Telefon: 01 446 80 60 Fax: 01 446 80 65 E-Mail: info@ghwp.ch www.ghwp.ch |
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