A young mans wanders to all sorts of exhibitions and travels to the places where art is all that’s talked about. On a visit to Maria Stenfors Gallery for Yasmin Müller's exhibition Copia: Modern Disbelief.| By Teucer.
Where we
completely and totally overtaken by the unexpectedness of Yasmin’s work?
Absolutely so! We had the pleasure
to attend the private view of the exhibition one cold afternoon where the
presence of the Berlin-based artist justified all the eagerness we had in
making it there.
This being the
second solo exhibition by Yasmin Muller at the gallery, her distinct aesthetics
and conceptualism is evident in her minimal, geometric, asymmetric as well as
pictorial aesthetics. The installations are all conceptual products of the
artists understanding of Copia as defined by the mass, copiousness, opulence as
well as the richness of knowledge and thoughts, always referencing the Ancient Roman
goddess of Abundance.
Ones perception
of the space and the relativity of the work to each other shifts. This is so as
the two main geometric sculptures even if defining by their status are profuse
in versatility. The two columns combined with sharp projections of light
reference a pattern created by Norman Wilkinson consecutively used in modern
warfare engineering aimed to bewilder and perplex the viewer in grasping the
depth, silhouette and physicality of the artwork. Two lightbox images as well as the various parrots’ canvases
all extend the concepts of chaos and mirroring as proposed by the artist. Copia can be seen as Yasmin Muellers’
take on what our daily life imagery consists of as that is seen through the
prism of our modern cultural life, replication and furtherance of ideas.
The beauty of
the work is that though conceptual enough it can also be seen through the
purely aesthetic eye because of the ideas hidden behind. In effect the aim is
to reflect on your own interpretations of the proposed visual field as those
are informed by your own cultural and social stimuli. Thought - provoking !
Until the 10th of November
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