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We are looking forward to introduce the audience of Enter Art Fair to a
presentation of two distinct yet visually alluring and in terms of space and
spatiality highly sensitive positions from our current gallery program.
Our concept for the presentation in Copenhagen is a double presentation
with works by two emerging artists who engage in interdisciplinarity beyond
their primary field of practice and who have received first honors in their
early careers. Sculptor and mixed media artist Claudia Piepenbrock (based
in Bremen, *1990) makes the relationship between the human body and
space the central theme in her art. In common experience, this relationship
is renegotiated again and again, through architecture, urban planning
and objects such as urban furniture, trees, etc. Claudia Piepenbrock takes
this reality up and recreates spatial boundaries and conditions in various
degrees. In Copenhagen, next to two papermaché sculptures (Plugs, 2016;
see pdf) we plan to present primarily flat objects of bronze on walls which
ingeniously describe spatial layouts which stand for spatial dynamics of
contraction and opening, closing and opening, possibility and impossibility
of movement.
Painter and sculptor Rachel von Morgenstern (based in Frankfurt/Main,
*1984) works on translucent polyester canvases and this way points towards
ideas of pictorial space and the idea of the painting as a window in refreshing
ways. With preferably vivid colors and hues of acrylic paint von Morgenstern
develops intriguing arrangements of color and spatiality, transparency and
opacity in gentle and dynamic gestures. The non-figurative abstraction by
Rachel von Morgenstern is described between expressionism and analytical
abstraction. However, when Von Morgenstern addresses questions relating
to the richness and emptiness of painterly compositions, her practice
connects with Claudia Piepenbrocks observations of people/bodies within
spatial configurations. Rachel von Morgensterns compositions oftentimes
appear light and elegant yet determined in the way her pictorial elements
are placed. The seemingly impulsive brushstrokes and the development of
the color fields and progressions bring to mind certain attitudes such as
humor or a lust for expression, at other times elegant restraint.
Both artists can look back on highly acclaimed exhibitions in prominent
public institutions such as the renowned Gerhard Marsks Haus in Bremen
(Piepenbrock, 2019) or the Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (Von Morgenstern,
2020), to name just two examples. Claudia Piepenbrock in particular has
been awarded prestigious prizes such as the Karin Hollweg Prize from
Bremen (2016) or the TISA Foundation Prize (2020/22).
