Marijke van Warmerdam
*1959 in Nieuwer Amstel, lebt und arbeitet in Amsterdam
Seit 2004 Professur für Malerei an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe.
Time out, 2001
Marijke van Warmerdam, Time out, 2001
»It’s a gesture of a ›T‹ that stands for Time out. Instead of one moment, one sees four moments very close to each other.« Marijke van Warmerdam
Jessica Stockholder
*1959 in Seattle, lebt und arbeitet in Connecticut
Untitled #358, 2001
Jessica Stockholder, Untitled (#358), 2001
Courtesy Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris – Bruxelles
»The white walls of the exhibition space are like a blank canvas. The lamps mounted on the sculpture illuminate the wall and the background of the work. The lights are mounted in the middle ground. Toes are very close to the foreground when viewing the work. The lights of the exhibition space also illuminate the work, and without light the color on the work would not be traveling through the air to the eyes of those looking. The various resting places for the eyes in the work can be understood as picture planes lined up in space. The colors – blue, white, and yellow – describe the various objects that support them – the fur, lamps, Styrofoam, and wood – but they also describe fictional objects that float free of the things the work is built from.
The fiction might be described this way: there is a white background screen, like a movie screen reflecting light. There is yellow scrim in the middle ground between fore and back. The light from the lamps is made very sunny by the yellow. And there are blue lumps in front, brought to some dramatic life by the tiny ceramic pumpkin propping them up. This scene, that words don’t stick to very well, floats, on and between, the array of objects holding it quietly in space.«
Jessica Stockholder