Metamodernity
Group show @Robert Grunenberg Berlin
16 DEC 2018 – 9 FEB 2019
With:
KOO JEONG A, PEPPI BOTTROP, MARCEL BROODTHAERS, ANDERS DICKSON, PAUL FERENS, HARDY HILL, ASTRIT ISMAILI, OLIVER LARIC, KRIS LEMSALU, JULIEN NGUYEN, FRANCIS PICABIA, SIMON SPEISER, RAPHAELA VOGEL
Metamodernism describes the present era in which a yearning for utopias, despite their futile nature, has come to the fore. In the wake of the myriad global political, economic and climatic crises of recent years, the term articulates our attempts to escape the dead-ends and cyclical thinking of postmodernism, in pursuit of the lost futures that modernity promised us. Through an embracing of radical empathy, sincerity and tenderness, might we here begin—individually and collectively—to glimpse our progressive, humanist, sensual utopias? — By Luke Turner, 2019
https://robertgrunenberg.com/exhibitions/metamodernity/
The Berlin based artist Paul Ferens engages in his paintings and sculptures with moments of transition, embracing the optical clash that occurs if you combine new and old, artificial and natural. Ferens experiments with different techniques of painting, mark making and spatial interventions, form contrasts between the materials and symbols and the way they can be interpreted.
In ,Metamodernity’ Ferens shows two new works: https://youtu.be/AEE-yctUdfE (1) and https://youtu.be/xaRNvJLKP1E (2) - the titles function as links to a medieval music hardcore party mix (1) and a Gladiator techno mix (2). The viewer is invited to immerse in the world of imagination seeing the medieval door in a low-fi look sprayed on canvas, that is a reminiscent of the aesthetic of early video games. The playful combination of music and the vibrant surface of the sprayed color gives his work a romantic power that steers up fantasies of knights and castles yet linking this illusionistic mind game in the present by the use of pop, street and material cultural references.
Metamodernity
Group show @Robert Grunenberg Berlin
16 DEC 2018 – 9 FEB 2019
With:
KOO JEONG A, PEPPI BOTTROP, MARCEL BROODTHAERS, ANDERS DICKSON, PAUL FERENS, HARDY HILL, ASTRIT ISMAILI, OLIVER LARIC, KRIS LEMSALU, JULIEN NGUYEN, FRANCIS PICABIA, SIMON SPEISER, RAPHAELA VOGEL
Metamodernism describes the present era in which a yearning for utopias, despite their futile nature, has come to the fore. In the wake of the myriad global political, economic and climatic crises of recent years, the term articulates our attempts to escape the dead-ends and cyclical thinking of postmodernism, in pursuit of the lost futures that modernity promised us. Through an embracing of radical empathy, sincerity and tenderness, might we here begin—individually and collectively—to glimpse our progressive, humanist, sensual utopias? — By Luke Turner, 2019
https://robertgrunenberg.com/exhibitions/metamodernity/
The Berlin based artist Paul Ferens engages in his paintings and sculptures with moments of transition, embracing the optical clash that occurs if you combine new and old, artificial and natural. Ferens experiments with different techniques of painting, mark making and spatial interventions, form contrasts between the materials and symbols and the way they can be interpreted.
In ,Metamodernity’ Ferens shows two new works: https://youtu.be/AEE-yctUdfE (1) and https://youtu.be/xaRNvJLKP1E (2) - the titles function as links to a medieval music hardcore party mix (1) and a Gladiator techno mix (2). The viewer is invited to immerse in the world of imagination seeing the medieval door in a low-fi look sprayed on canvas, that is a reminiscent of the aesthetic of early video games. The playful combination of music and the vibrant surface of the sprayed color gives his work a romantic power that steers up fantasies of knights and castles yet linking this illusionistic mind game in the present by the use of pop, street and material cultural references.