LXV Barbara Breitenfellner
Eröffnung: Freitag, 21. 04. 2006: 20 - 00 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: Sa., 22.04. - Sa., 06.05.2006 (und bis 13.05. nach
Vereinbarung)
Schöne Logik
(...) One could say that Barbara Breitenfellner essentially exhibits
exhibitions, every installation becoming an exhibition in itself,
like those we can find in crappy private collections, in strange American
suburban museums or even in trendy art galleries.
For her show at CAPRI, the artist presents printed works for the first
time. Like her installations, they are based on found objects and materials
e.g. pages from books on which she has printed etchings taken from 19th
century dictionaries? illustrations or tattoo magazines, and dots resulting
from the enlargement of images printed in newspapers. Again, it is in
the bizarre signification, the non-logical links, the un-canniness of
the mental collage that those prints find their raison dêtre,
more than in an obvious explanation or too direct beautiful logic.
Those cut-up silkscreens remind us of JG Ballard who, in The Atrocity
Exhibition writes: Kodachrome. Captain Webster studied the prints.
They showed: (1) a thick-set man in an Air Force jacket, unshaven face
half hidden by the dented hat-peak; (2) a transverse section through the
spinal level T-12; (3) a crayon self-portrait by David Feary, seven-year-old
schizophrenic at the Belmont Asylum, Sutton; (4) radio-spectra from the
quasar CTA 102; (5) an antero-posterior radiograph of a skull, estimated
capacity 1500 cc; (6) spectro-heliogram of the sun taken with the K line
of calcium; (7) left and right handprints showing massive scarring between
second and third metacarpal bones. To Dr. Nathan he said, 'And these make
up one picture?' Barbara Breitenfellner would doubtlessly answer
yes!
Thibaut de Ruyter
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