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Talking about 12 Paintings
Gerda Scheepers at blank projectsTALKING ABOUT 12 PAINTINGS
is a small group of works in between painting
and sculpture,
with slightly dishonest ambitions towards the performing arts,
and actively jealous of the written or spoken.
:( Picture it :)
,
please
.
24 January 2013 - 02 March 2013
'Modal Approach and Accent'
Gerda Scheepers at blank projects'Modal Approach and Accent' is the title of Gerda Scheepers's show at Blank Projects. By applying imagery as short-hand for both her own art making process or specific (cultural) signs and figurations, Gerda Scheepers explores the medium of painting. Content and formal elements of painting are remixed through cut, copy and paste with the results actively pursuing ambiguity. The sculptures and paintings operate like devices for containment that, ultimately and crucially, fail to contain.
Scheepers often works within series or groupings of work, creating environments for (often repetitive) motifs and gestures. In this selection of work the shape of a t-shirt is at the same time motif in a picture and picture surface for another layer of signifiers, similar to the way that sculptural elements with a very concrete heritage act as support structure to paintings that have shifted through methodical gesture and moved to abstraction.
The work is caught up in a system signifying progress, which is reconfigured in a careful orchestration that deliberately fails to deliver the complete and self-contained result that they seem to promise.
01 March 2012 - 31 March 2012
'Psycho Socio Surface'
Gerda Scheepers at blank projectsGerda Scheepers will develop an abstract situation at the gallery using new works. By pointedly referencing genres of classical art production (painting, objects, and drawing), Scheepers moves away from dualisms such as form/content and figuration/abstraction. As hybrid media, her works focus on psychological tensions that arise between images, graphic diagrams, and language. Scheepers invariably questions the material presence of images, destabilizing them through the use of ambivalent structures, or the simultaneity of subject and background. The exhibition title alludes to both the individual psychological landscape as well as its interaction with the bigger social landscape, and an abstract surface where they are held in tension.
30 October 2014 - 29 November 2014
