Heike-Karin Föll: News, 09 Sep 2016 — 08 Oct 2016
Exhibitions

Heike-Karin Föll: News

Galerie Francesca Pia, Limmatstrasse 268, Zurich, CH-8005, Switzerland

Galerie Francesca Pia presents “News” a solo show of the artist Heike-Karin Foell.  The Foell’s canvases do not emerge from her books but they have their necessary counterpart in them. One could describe them as probing relations with the ephemeral, as well as plumbing distances in and between media.

We might look at these paintings as transposing the conditions of the book to the general spatial situation of the exhibition. But what, exactly, is the equivalent of the page here? Is it the single canvas, on which strokes, shades of color, the occasional interspersed letters figure? Or is it the wall, on which the paintings are mounted? Are we looking at the media-equivalents of several sheets, on which the artist has left her traces, marks, her work? Or, is the entire wall the equivalent of a printed surface, on which individual pictures appear? Is this a sketch book? Or a page in a magazine? Or, even a screen? Whichever way – it surely is this: the becoming ephemeral of the exhibition wall. A case of questioning the monumentalizing ambitions of the painterly project, while confidently placing the medium within what seems a mobile of media – a balancing act, a constellational weighing, a construction, think Calder, but as a model for playing and weighing media against each other. A rare contemporary case of addressing painting’s (and drawing’s) place within our medial present, while also relating them to other media. A method of positioning them within a media constellational logic, one of layering, flipping a page, holding one interface and its constructional laws against another.

Contacts & Details
OPENING TIMES:
Tue – Fri 12pm – 6pm; Sat 11am – 5pm
CLOSING DAYS:
Sun, Mon
T: +41 44 271 24 44
M: info@francescapia.com
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ADDRESS
Galerie Francesca Pia, Limmatstrasse 268, Zurich, CH-8005, Switzerland

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