17 September 2010

They ain't ready for this one nephew

Heike Weber is a German artist who makes amazing pieces like this:


Mardin Kilim 2007
silicone
680x340 cm




Dorotheum 300
2007
permanent marker on vinyl floor



Utopia
2009
permanent marker on acrylic paint



I like this statement about her work:

" The foundation of her work is the idea of a neutral space whose potential is first realized through the drawing and is what consciously positions Heike Weber within the critically reflected tradition of Minimal Art. Judd's cubes, Andre's metal plates or Morris' serial objects had focused for the first time on the referentiality of art to its neutral environs... The reality of the room is confirmed, classically, stroke for stroke, line by line, only the next minute to be thrown out of sync. The gestural input, the physical working on a picture support that expands in all directions, seems to veer towards a momentum that now on its part appropriates the viewer. It is not the object on view that finds its irreconcilable and multi-angled visibility made manifest, but the ‘specific object' that strikes back. "


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