Full Pull 2011 Exhibition present site specific installations and video art at Stpln.
Clemens Behr (DE) - Site Specific Installations
German artist Clemens Behr uses the simplest materials to create complex ephemeral architectures, which fill gallery spaces with origami-like structures. Working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms, Behr dreams up installations that result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects. Not content with the confines of gallery spaces, Behr has taken his work into the public sphere, building peculiar appendages in metro cars and erecting detailed miniature cities on street corners. At their best, his installations are feats of optical trickery, disorienting architectures reminiscent of German expressionist film sets. At their worst, they look like a creative kid ran amok with a bunch of moving boxes and a vat of paint. Behr belongs to a crop of artists, who take inspiration from childlike forms of expression, a naive, innocent aesthetic befitting a generation of Peter Pans...
Nadine Byrne (SE) -
"Dream Family" (2011)
Nadine Byrne is a visual artist and musician lving in Stockholm, Sweden. Her solo project, The Magic State, is an audiovisual ongoing process initiated in 2008. Every concert is a screening and every screening is a concert. The Magic State is sound and moving images, suspension of time, transcendence, mysticism, rituals and poetry. A magical state of mind and a physical sovereign place. Besides her solo projects she also form the duo Ectoplasm Girls with her sister Tanya.
Frida Franker -
"Onna no michi / Tear me out of the picture" (2009)
Frida Franker video work has reached acknowledgment both in Sweden and abroad. She has been studying at Konsthögskolan Valand and Kanazawa College of Arts in Japan, where also is filmed. In a single shot the film shows workers at an all-night driving range in Japan manually retrieving all the golf balls that have been hit during the day. This specific task takes exactly 58 minutes and it is accomplished at the same time, every day, seven days a week.
Tove Kjellmark (SE) -
"Naked" (2010)
What is distinctive in Tove Kjellmark's work is a faschination for behavior, dynamics and movement. This is an artist who creates work in a very spontaneous way using advanced technology, robotics and digital media as a tool for artistic expression. Kjellmark draws on psychoanalysis and neuroscience to explore people's relationship to that which is alien, or non-human, with focus on humans in relation to machines. Sculpture, photography and drawings in parallel all revolve around the question of how to represent vulnerable, mute, bodily states of being. An interactive toy is often the starting point in these artworks which Kjellmark cuts open, tears off the soft covering, makes strange, and controls with computer code. Sometimes she inverts the scale so that the interactive sculptures becomes menacing and monstrous giants, in other cases, she goes under the skin to uncover the psychological notions that problematizes the human. Tove articulates in a deeply perverse way essential questions about the contemporary human condition.
Lena Bergendahl, Rut Karin Zettergren, Jennifer Rainsford (SE) -
"Applied Theories of Expanding Minds" (2011)
Jennifer Rainsford, Lena Bergendahl and Rut Karin Zettergren has been working together since 2008. While studying at Kungl Konsthögskolan (KKH) they started working with video and short films and started the art project You Look Like Milk. In that work they used film and video as method to look how theemselves relate to The Other.
"Applied Theories of Expanding Minds" follow a new tribe in a Kenya that during a long time has been exploited by China but that is now independent and in a state of insurrection. The film follow the main characters actions and rituals in their mission to create an alternative to the existing society by living in it but after their own system. Through interviews and observations of rituals a fanatic grope of individuals is introduced, that have decided to live by their own beliefs and to let decoding of the changes of the earths magnetic fields run their lives.
Full Pull 2011 Exhibition
> Clemens Behr
> Nadine Byrne
> Frida Franker
> Tove Kjellmark
> Lena Bergendahl, Rut Karin Zettergren, Jennifer Rainsford
Opening Reception Wednesday Sep 28, 17-21 @ Stpln
Sep 28-29, 17-21
Sep 30, 13-21
Oct 1-2, 13-19
Gratis!
Listen, read and see more:
http://www.clemensbehr.com/
http://www.nadinebyrne.com/
http://www.fridafranker.com/
http://www.tovekjellmark.com/
http://www.zbrproductions.com/ hide