"E-Zone"Kata Unger
ANNA KLINKHAMMER GALERIE
Neubrückstr. 6 40213 Düsseldorf Germany
Tel. +49 211 586 39-30 Fax: +49 211 586 39-25 Mobil: +49 172 43 44 557 e-mail:
5 Sep > 13 Oct, 2018
 Kata Unger : E-Zone, 2011, Wolle auf Baumwolle, 200 x 180 cm |
 Kata Unger : Crack Me oder mein Hirn in der Cloud, 2016, Wolle auf Wolle, 240 x 258 cm |
 Kata Unger : Trainingsraum, 2009, Seide / Wolle auf Wolle, 224 x 216 cm |
Kata Unger (* 1961 in Berlin) grew up in the former eastern part of Berlin, as a daughter of the author Waltraud Meienreis and the artist Heinrich Bethke and his second wife Ricarda Bethke, she is also a writer. From her father Kata Unger learned the art of tapestry weaving.
But that does not have to be imagined as a traditional arts and crafts education, rather it was that Heinrich Bethke constantly painted, drew and also weaved and Kata did that too. She grew up in a special atmosphere, charged with literature and poetry and politics and journalism, and there was always artistically handling of all materials.
Kata Unger's tapestries develop tremendous splendor, are object, drawing and painting and one would like to think that here in the crossing of all categories something like synchronicity is represented.
Take, for example, the 200 x 180 cm E-Zone rug. We are immediately overwhelmed by the bright colors, study the monkey creature on the surfboard, let the eyes glide with the direction of the water, try to spot objects ... we are in the middle of the depicted world.
And when we question a little bit the poses and contents, it dawns on us observers, that the represented scenery does not originate from a droll fairytale world and we have an idea, this is the tragedy of Agbogbloshie in Ghana, the largest landfill for electronic waste from Germany in Africa ... on the banks of the once enchanting Korle Lagoon.
Oops, everything is so colorful here: a grotesque! And the little make-up monkey with the pearl necklace, which has probably been washed down from an antique street organ to this fearsome place, looks uncertain and skeptical, waiting for the first time.
Unger's drawings are created while working on the respective carpet, are independent works, and nevertheless produce contentual and formal references to the complex tapestries. The vertical and horizontal wool pixels not only create perspective spaces, but also literally thought spaces. Woven abstract terms are not just the materiality of the word but the referentiality of new discourses.
Kata Unger elegantly surfs between poetry and computer language, philosophy and media flooding. The essence of her art is the combination of an awake, rebellious, free attitude and the highly aesthetic implementation of intellectual, theoretical and very complex contents, analog and pixelated on the same time, with self-dyed wool.
C.G. Bellmer, Düsseldorf 2018
But that does not have to be imagined as a traditional arts and crafts education, rather it was that Heinrich Bethke constantly painted, drew and also weaved and Kata did that too. She grew up in a special atmosphere, charged with literature and poetry and politics and journalism, and there was always artistically handling of all materials.
Kata Unger's tapestries develop tremendous splendor, are object, drawing and painting and one would like to think that here in the crossing of all categories something like synchronicity is represented.
Take, for example, the 200 x 180 cm E-Zone rug. We are immediately overwhelmed by the bright colors, study the monkey creature on the surfboard, let the eyes glide with the direction of the water, try to spot objects ... we are in the middle of the depicted world.
And when we question a little bit the poses and contents, it dawns on us observers, that the represented scenery does not originate from a droll fairytale world and we have an idea, this is the tragedy of Agbogbloshie in Ghana, the largest landfill for electronic waste from Germany in Africa ... on the banks of the once enchanting Korle Lagoon.
Oops, everything is so colorful here: a grotesque! And the little make-up monkey with the pearl necklace, which has probably been washed down from an antique street organ to this fearsome place, looks uncertain and skeptical, waiting for the first time.
Unger's drawings are created while working on the respective carpet, are independent works, and nevertheless produce contentual and formal references to the complex tapestries. The vertical and horizontal wool pixels not only create perspective spaces, but also literally thought spaces. Woven abstract terms are not just the materiality of the word but the referentiality of new discourses.
Kata Unger elegantly surfs between poetry and computer language, philosophy and media flooding. The essence of her art is the combination of an awake, rebellious, free attitude and the highly aesthetic implementation of intellectual, theoretical and very complex contents, analog and pixelated on the same time, with self-dyed wool.
C.G. Bellmer, Düsseldorf 2018
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5 Sep, 6-10 pm
The show will be open during DC OPEN weekend 7 - 9.9.2018
DÜSSELDORF COLOGNE OPEN GALLERIES
Friday 07 Sep - 12 to 10 pm
Saturday 08 Sep - 12 to 8 pm
Sunday 09 Sep - 12 to 6 pm
The show will be open during DC OPEN weekend 7 - 9.9.2018
DÜSSELDORF COLOGNE OPEN GALLERIES
Friday 07 Sep - 12 to 10 pm
Saturday 08 Sep - 12 to 8 pm
Sunday 09 Sep - 12 to 6 pm
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