ARCO MADRID 2022

On the occasion of ARCO Madrid 2022 Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt and Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin would like to showcase a collaboration project with the artists Nick Dawes, Kota Ezawa, Christiane Feser, Johanna Reich, Susa Templin and Jan Tichy. The overall concept of the project focuses on artists, who create complex color and material compositions.

Nick Dawes’ colour arrangements seem impulsive and coincidental, even though his layered, slightly translucent colour field painting is intensely planned and involves only little chance. The artist abstracts traffic signs and other symbolic objects of everyday life and distills them on canvas into flowing oil paint. Susa Templin, working with analogue photography, seemingly deconstructs and distorts photographed space with a multiple exposure technique and thereby creates new abstract spaces, reminiscent of memories.

The works by Nick Dawes and Susa Templin are complimented by lightboxes by Kota Ezawa. His digital collages are a black and white homage to the famous „Merzbau“ by german avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters.

Also mainly displaying black and white, the work by Christiane Feser is based on a reduced colour palette. Feser creates relief-like photographs working with multi-faceted geometric structures. Her works construct a three-dimensional sculptural layer that rethinks the medium of photography as a whole. In her photo-objects, she creates a sense of sublimity and lightness.

This atmosphere is further supported by the works of Jan Tichy, whose silkscreen series „On the decomposition of a plane“ addresses complex social situations. Following the mathematical principle of parquetization, Jan Tichy assembles identical pentagons into gapless surfaces, only to fan them out again in a next step. By shifting the screens against each other in the printing process, he creates unique pieces with expansive overlays that, read as a series, thematize the dissolution of structures.

Johanna Reich's linen canvases confront the human painterly gesture with AI-generated technology, reflecting on the interconnectedness of human behaviour and technological progress and its impact on nature.