It with great pleasure that I can hereby invite you to my first European solo exhibition.
“A HORRIBLE JUNGLE”
From 16.05.09 to 07.06.09
Opening on the 16th of may, 19.00 o'clock.
Intoxicated Demons gallery (I.D G)
Naunynstrasse 46 / D-10999, Berlin
Germany.
info@intoxicated-demons.com
http://www.intoxicated-demons.com/
hope to see you there
sincerely
A.R
p.s
below I have attached a bit of the text that was written in context of the preparation for this show
“ A Horrible Jungle”
Because I used to regard art and its attached institutions as a method and a space, through which and where I could examine and convey things, I have become a collector of information and images. Because I was secretly hoping that the collected amount of visual debris and human byproduct would yield some kind of answer from which I could wrench out some kind of sense. therefor it seems only natural to me, that I would set out to create an archive.
Most of everything I do seem to be connected to the assembling of information for this notebook on the human condition. Therefor it is not easy for me to identify or name the specific nature of this archive. It is a traveling black box. It is a unsorted pile of vicious and unvictorious information that they brought in the newspapers, the books, the televisions. It is an echo of something that they shouted in the streets, and it is the smell of smoke from its own burning.
Its a theatrical violence report. A letter of acknowledgment of my own subjective fear and
fascination combined with that which is dreadful and violent, grotesque and morbid.
It is a paradox. It is pathos.
It is a collage of registrations and colliding observations.
An examination of the riddle that lies within that which is made visible as well as a study of invisible mechanisms.
It is an attempt to,
create comprehensibility while also striving to break it apart. An axis of accumulated signals and mis-communication.
To “know” each thing and its form.
To make “signs” of the multitudinous, the incomprehensible, the impassable. To make these thing graspable. All the while acknowledging their fleeting and in-graspable nature.
An attempt of decoding through the creation of form in imagery.
To strive to identify those abstract powers that propels us into action.
To make the human figure into a tool, as it has been so often and for so long, through which the language of form can transmit the identity of ”deed”.
It is an attempt to keep nihilism at bay, and positivism in check.
