EXHIBITIONS / 2006 / FRANKFURT
HYBRID
Anthea HamiltonAlisa Margolis
Dasha Shishkin
Barbara Wolff
curated by Eva Karcher
VIEWS
/ ENGLISH / DEUTSCH
PRESS RELEASE
The exhibition HYBRID presents four young female artists: Anthea Hamilton, Alisa Margolis, Dasha Shishkin, Barbara Wolff. Within their work they deal with hybrid structures, composite worlds and hermaphrodites. They work with techniques of collage and montage, they cross and mix elements of multifaceted sources, either with historical or current ones or medial or real ones.
The achievement of this creolisation, as one could characterise their strategies of cruising and crossing, are hybrid forms. Camouflage pictures arise from apparently contradictory elements, in which surreal fragments meet with real ones or abstract with naturalistic ones.
They are controlled by an as-well-as-logic of ambivalence which is not polarising anymore the either-or-structures with each other, but is emphasising the simultaneity of antagonisms. Like that fascinating ambiguous and diffuse visuell spaces emerge, as well as paradox, grotesque and cartoonesque in-between worlds. The hybrid structures which can be studied in the work of the artists correspond to the hybrid culture in that we live today.
At the beginning of the nineties artists began to develop techniques of crossover already. Every domain - art, fashion. music, literature, film, theatre, architecture - begann to adapt methodes, motives and codes of the respectively other. They started to de-construct them for receiving a new combination, montage, recycling, sampling, morphing, remixing, cutting or digital lifting. In principle the artists used the classical methods of collage but now they got far beyond their own medium. The idea and intention of their work was not to create autonomous works anymore but to establish interaction, dialogs and communication. It was not about manifestos anymore but processes.
Anthea Hamilton, born in 1978 in Great Britain, studied amongst others at the Leeds Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art in London. She lives in London. Her video work as her plasitc work is circulating around role-playings and constructions of multiple fragmented identity. She is represented by IBID PROJECTS, London and Vilnius.
Alisa Margolis, born in 1975 in Kiew, grew up in New York and studied art in Amsterdam where she lives today. Her paintings play with baroque forms which she moves into illusionistic spheres filled with fading, omnipresently elusive beauty. She is represented by
VILMA GOLD, London and Berlin.
Dasha Shishkin, born in 1977 in Moscow, studied amongst others at the Rieveld Akademie in Amsterdam and at the Columbia University in New York. She lives in New York. Her drawings, etchings and paintings are floating in erotic-grotesque limitlessness spheres in which human-animal bodies affiliate in semiconscious, trancelike, polymorph-perverse harmony. She is represented by GRIMM/ROSENFELD, Munich and New York.
Barbara Wolff, born in 1980 in Fogarasch Romania, was a student of Hermann Nitsch and Wolfgang Tillmans in Frankfurt and studied in London. She lives in London. Barbara Wolff sees herself as a digital painter whose magical mythical photo collages derive from phantastic-surreal forms with the computer. She is represented by WILMA TOLKSDORF, Frankfurt and Berlin.
The achievement of this creolisation, as one could characterise their strategies of cruising and crossing, are hybrid forms. Camouflage pictures arise from apparently contradictory elements, in which surreal fragments meet with real ones or abstract with naturalistic ones.
They are controlled by an as-well-as-logic of ambivalence which is not polarising anymore the either-or-structures with each other, but is emphasising the simultaneity of antagonisms. Like that fascinating ambiguous and diffuse visuell spaces emerge, as well as paradox, grotesque and cartoonesque in-between worlds. The hybrid structures which can be studied in the work of the artists correspond to the hybrid culture in that we live today.
At the beginning of the nineties artists began to develop techniques of crossover already. Every domain - art, fashion. music, literature, film, theatre, architecture - begann to adapt methodes, motives and codes of the respectively other. They started to de-construct them for receiving a new combination, montage, recycling, sampling, morphing, remixing, cutting or digital lifting. In principle the artists used the classical methods of collage but now they got far beyond their own medium. The idea and intention of their work was not to create autonomous works anymore but to establish interaction, dialogs and communication. It was not about manifestos anymore but processes.
Anthea Hamilton, born in 1978 in Great Britain, studied amongst others at the Leeds Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art in London. She lives in London. Her video work as her plasitc work is circulating around role-playings and constructions of multiple fragmented identity. She is represented by IBID PROJECTS, London and Vilnius.
Alisa Margolis, born in 1975 in Kiew, grew up in New York and studied art in Amsterdam where she lives today. Her paintings play with baroque forms which she moves into illusionistic spheres filled with fading, omnipresently elusive beauty. She is represented by
VILMA GOLD, London and Berlin.
Dasha Shishkin, born in 1977 in Moscow, studied amongst others at the Rieveld Akademie in Amsterdam and at the Columbia University in New York. She lives in New York. Her drawings, etchings and paintings are floating in erotic-grotesque limitlessness spheres in which human-animal bodies affiliate in semiconscious, trancelike, polymorph-perverse harmony. She is represented by GRIMM/ROSENFELD, Munich and New York.
Barbara Wolff, born in 1980 in Fogarasch Romania, was a student of Hermann Nitsch and Wolfgang Tillmans in Frankfurt and studied in London. She lives in London. Barbara Wolff sees herself as a digital painter whose magical mythical photo collages derive from phantastic-surreal forms with the computer. She is represented by WILMA TOLKSDORF, Frankfurt and Berlin.
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