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Four artists’ works exhibited at Mangrove Gallery
    2021-04-19  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Swiss painter Miriam Cahn, Italian artist Enzo Cucchi, German artist Nevin Aladag and Germany-based Romanian artist Daniel Knorr are exhibiting their works at the Mangrove Gallery.

Cahn makes intimate, haunting paintings and drawings of semi-ambiguous figures, animals and landscapes imbued with quiet emotion. Influenced by the black-and-white images she was exposed to through early TV and reproductions in art history textbooks, Cahn used only black, white and shades of gray in her early works. She began using colors in 1994 and turned on to the formal and psychological power of mass media imagery and its gradual saturation. She cites Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film “Red Desert” as a work that exposed her to the hyper-reality of colors. With exquisite sensitivity, Cahn uses colors to highlight selected parts of her figures — principally the genitals, breasts, lips or eyes — suggesting fragility and fecundity and endowing her figures with a sense of inner life.

Cucchi is a central figure in the Transavanguardia movement of the 1980s, Italy’s answer to Neo-expressionism. His large-scale oil paintings are characterized by their simple, almost primitively depicted images rendered in vivid, dramatic colors, and he was once described in the New York Times as an “artist who waves his paintbrush like a magician’s wand.” Cucchi’s textured surfaces and instinctual charcoal lines can resemble cave paintings, and indeed much of his imagery includes primitive tools, livestock, flames and eyes. A writer as well as a self-taught artist, he often exhibits his work along with poetic verses he himself has composed.

Born in the province of Ancona in 1949, Cucchi went on to befriend other artists of the Transavanguardia movement he met in Rome, such as Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia and Mimmo Paladino. Like his fellow Transavanguardians, Cucchi’s earth tone compositions are infused with violence. The confidence in gesture and colors lend his tableaux immediacy and drama.

Born in Turkey, Aladag, now based in Berlin, moved to Stuttgart as a child, which attuned her to the pluralism of experiences that dictate space and identities. In her 2013 three-channel video “Session,” the camera follows percussion instruments, which were selected as symbols of Sharjah, the UAE’s migrant communities, as they roll through the landscape of the city. The landscape effectively plays the drum, symbolizing the distorted power relations between the Emirati city and its immigrant groups.

Aladag works in sculpture, performance and film. Her practice addresses questions of borderlines and frontiers, often in connection with the constructions of identity. She explores culture, transformation and belonging by uniting distinct elements with disparate heritages into single works.

Knorr is a contemporary artist known for his projects that employ materials such as smoke to trigger debates on political and theoretical content. Largely concerned with notions of emptiness, representation and fantasy, Knorr’s texts, sculptures, graphic works and performances take on his interests in a controversial manner.

Knorr studied under Daniel Spoerri at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and represented Romania in the 2005 Venice Biennale with his work “European Influenza.” His works are held in the collections of the Migros Museum in Zurich, the Stasi Museum in Leipzig, and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, among others.

Dates: Until May 8

Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., closed Sundays and Mondays

Booking: 8652-2860

Venue: Mangrove Gallery, One Shenzhen Bay, Nanshan District (南山区深圳湾一号红树林画廊)

Metro: Line 2 to Dengliang Station (登良站), Exit C

(SD News)

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