WONDROUS WORLDS | PRESS RELEASE
1 March - 20 April 2019
PV: Friday 1 March 2019 (7 - 9 pm)
"The absurd, presented with taste, arouses aversion and admiration."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the break with the supposedly beautiful that unites the Old Masters shown in this exhibition through to contemporary artists in their work. Her works evoke contrary associations, thoughts and feelings - one can hardly escape them and involuntarily becomes emotionally involved.
It seems as if every viewer has a different opinion about what he seeks to grasp when he sees the pictures, objects and sculptures. This art polarizes. Lifelike meets absurd and fantastic, beauty unites with cruelty, reality becomes an illusion, the fairytale charms and chases us a shiver on the back.
The motifs seem familiar and alien at the same time. It is a charming and yet a broken beauty, which threatens to tilt at any time into the morbid and nightmarish, without the evil would be tangible. While one may feel a slight discomfort, one has long since surrendered to the seduction of something never seen before.
Artists: Nicole Bianchet, GL Brierley, Martin Denker, Max Ernst, Jean Tinguely and Eva Aeppli, Marianna Gartner, Kerstin Grimm, Uwe Henneken, Paul Klee, Gustav Kluge, Dirk Lange, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, René Magritte, Charles Matton, Kate MccGwire, David Nicholson, Daniel Richter, Josef Scharl, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Carolein Smit, Dimitris Tzamouranis, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Thomas Virnich, Wols, Aloys Zötl and others
WONDROUS WORLDS
Galerie Michael Haas | Berlin
1 March - 20 April 2019
PERIHELION (2014) Kate MccGwire
SISSURE OMMATEUM (2016) Kate MccGwire