ANNA FASSHAUER – NEW WORKS

Posted on 2014-08-25

Drywall construction profiles formed and wound to large sculptures, either coloured or partly lacquered, flexed sheet metal pictures, this is how Anna Fasshauer presents herself in her first exhibition at Galerie Nagel Draxler Berlin. In a rather open process, she accurately transforms material into forms, putting them into space. She neither designs nor draws, does not order the complete construction. Fasshauer produces herself in an energy consuming act of bending, flexing and fumbling around with the large and heavy works.
The pictures are results of this process-oriented working method as well. Their format is classical, their topic is the surface, their expression is abstract. Everthing on display here is what it is and it is hand-made. Neither the so-called speculative materialsm or realism nor the post-structural correaltion are the matrix.

Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2014

Galerie Nagel Draxler
Weydinger Str. 2/4
10178 Berlin
Germany

nagel-draxler.de

   Tweet

ADRIANO COSTA

Posted on 2014-08-25

In line with previous installations, Costa’s found objects – readymade yet reformulated – continue to express their original functions and resonances; earlier assemblages have for example recycled items of clothing from his childhood. He has made a series of wall compositions using cut-out sections of free London newspapers, and these bear witness to the news stories that dominated the headlines over the summer (or indeed those that passed by without note), from the wars in the Middle East to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in the Ukraine. Reflected in these works, Costa proposes, is a sense of the “crazy and intense summer” that has just passed, with “some works speaking of tragedies, others of funnier things. It’s always important for me to talk about where I’ve been working – perhaps in an attempt to understand.”

Assimilating a diverse range of forms and colours – whether of copper or concrete, steel or cloth – Costa also oscillates freely between miniature and monumental scales, suspended and earthbound formats, or flat and volumetric structures. His works harbour precise references to artists he admires – allusions “packaged in plastic” – while also affectionately subverting the models they invoke. A grid of metal tiles, reminiscent of a Carl Andre floor sculpture, has for instance been riddled with circular holes. Elsewhere Costa has deployed coloured polythene bags (rubbish and recycling sacks from different London boroughs) to create geometrical wall pieces akin to Constructivist paintings; while in a series of small-scale paintings, he combines the methods and motifs of embroidery, collage and cartoons

Exhibition runs through to September 27th, 2014

Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
London
W1B 5QN

www.sadiecoles.com

   Tweet