Gebilde, 2006 Installation view Sabine Hornig Gebilde Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is delighted to present "Gebilde," Sabine Hornig's third solo exhibition at the gallery. Blurring the divisions between two-dimensional and three dimensional space, the new photographs and sculptures shown in "Gebilde" create a fusion between photography and sculpture, presenting work in each medium that supports and expands upon the other. The title of the show, "Gebilde," references this overlap, translating into English most closely to "construct", "Gebilde" means "shape" or "creation" and can only be used to describe three dimensional objects. "Bild" however, means image, thus "Gebilde" refers the overlap between two-dimensional and three-dimensional elements. Explorations and challenges of traditional spatial orientation are inherent in Sabine's work as the subject of her photography and sculpture is most often existing architecture; she reproduces and recreates the locations that are featured in her pieces, on a new scale or in a different dimension. As in past works the pieces included in "Gebilde" examine the architecture of the city, focusing specifically on abandoned spaces. The apparent emptiness of these images gives way to the imagined presence of past or future structures, referencing both destruction and creation, each inhabiting the space equally, and presenting the city as a sort of a random urban wilderness. There is a rough, almost brutal quality to the locations that Hornig has chosen to photograph, as though something has been roughly torn out of the space, furthering the sense of transformation towards disintegration. In the project gallery, "Window with No Floor I" and "Window with No Floor II", show unfinished brick interiors in which the floor is not pictured, giving the room an endless, dissolving feeling, and challenging conventional notions of finite "interior" space. "Window with No Back Wall" in the gallery's entryway shows a construction yard enclosed by a grate; no rear wall shuts off the area and the viewer can look through where the wall might have been once, or might be in the future. The sculptures in the main gallery are three-dimensional manifestations of the layered images in the photographs. The work "Blechhütte" or "Tin Hut" deals with themes of inversion, contrasting light and dark and interior and exterior space by juxtaposing a solid, sturdy, and opaque rectangular box with the bright and transparent scaffolding-like structure that surrounds it. On a pane of glass there is a strip of negative which depicts a waste-landscape that references the adjacent sculpture, "Landscape", locating the two in the same surroundings. "Landscape" is a five-part window, which has been placed like a folding screen toward the rear of the gallery. Through the "window" we see transparent sections of the plastic waste of a landfill, the vibrant colors of the discarded refuse compliment the blue sky, and simultaneously contrast the man-made and the natural, creating a spectacularly beautiful image out the most unlikely material, and presenting another inversion, garbage elevated to art. Living and working in Berlin, Hornig exhibits widely; her work is currently part of "Constructing New Berlin," Bass Art Museum Miami, through January 21, 2007 (group). Other recent exhibitions include, "The Second Room," Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, 2005 (solo); "Beyond Delirious: Architecture in Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection", Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Miami 2005 (group); "Collección De Fotografía Contemporánea de Telefónica," Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain, 2005 (group); and "Projects 78," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003 (solo); among others. This exhibition was made possible in part by the generous contribution of the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam. Exhibition: 30 November 2006 - 6 January 2007 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 11 am - 6 pm Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Gallery 2 521 West 21st Street USA-New York, NY 10011 Telephone +212 414 4144 Fax +212 414 1535 Email mail@tanyabonakdargallery.com www.tanyabonakdargallery.com |
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