Trajectories, Installation View

Trajectories, Installation View

Isabel Kirschner, Katzensprung, 2007,
eggtempera and oil on canvas,190 x 125 cm

Paul McAree, Comely Maidens, 2006, oil on canvas, 65 x 95cm

Angie Reed
Circular Painting, Acrylic on canvas, 95 cm diameter

TRAJECTORIES
S.T.O.R.A.G.E: DE HUMOBISTEN
1AUG- 1 SEPT 2007

The Agency is pleased to present a groupshow of young international painters Kate Mayne (GB/B), Yutaka Inagawa ( JP), Paul McAree(IE), Angie Reed (IT/US) Isabel Kirschner (GER), Ina Bierstedt (GER) and Geraldine Gliubislavich.(FR).
In a post-modernist context, appropriation and citation, whether the gesture is critical or nostalgic, are prevalent in painting. The current group show represents some of the multitude of responses possible, with a strong emphasis on expression and the gestural. The groupshow, which will be presented throughout the summer gives an insight into the practice of younger artists who are influenced by the past decade of painting production and formulate their own stylistic directions.
Yutaka Inagawa and Angie Reed mix organic forms with the aesthetic of graphic design. The technique is derived from a collage process and yet the works display abstracted energy.The artistic interplay of details and abstract imagery is also the main feature of Ina Bierstedt's work. Her landscapes arise out of a long work process, whereby the colour is tossed, brushed and dripped onto the canvas in various coats. An almost expressionistic intensity is visible in Paul McAree’s paintings, created by fast impasto brushstrokes. Subjects are falsely simplistic or commune, in order to later reveal to be from pivotal moments within Irish and global history. His paintings, as well as Geraldine Gliubislavich and Kate Mayne, explore the dissolution of photography into painting and the friction of truth between the two. Isabel Kirschner questions the idea of memory and nostalgia, by painting images from found Super-8 material of private family events. The faces often out of the picture or bleached by light Isabel Kirschner touches on a wistful memory of childhood.
The paintings in this exhibition focus on the truths that remain outside of the documentary image and the working of memory and its failure with expressive beauty.

Kate Mayne
Red China Fix, 2007, oil on canvas, 50 x 45 cm

Geraldine Gliubislavich,Untitled, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm

Yutaka Inagawa, Untitled, Oil and collage on canvas. 180 x 100 cm