Summer Show: Boban Andjelkovic, Lena von Goedeke, Caro Jost, Patrick Ostrowsky, Youjin Yi
June 25 – July 30, 2021
Britta Rettberg in Munich, Germany
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Britta Rettberg presents a Summer Show with selected works and five special editions by the gallery artists.
In the tradition of "Bad Painting", Boban Andjelkovic (*1975 in Serbia, lives and works in Munich) combines figurative references and an abstract formal language. His subjectivist pictorial worlds are inhabited by alter egos or personifications from art history and pop culture. Behind his neo-expressive depictions lies an awareness of current social phenomena. Andjelkovic's latest works arise from his preoccupation with the role of the artist in relation to social role attributions. He playfully questions the ambivalent male artist ego. However, these contents function primarily as a foil for the dissolution of form and the expansion of painting.
Installation view with works by Youjin Yi and Patrick Ostrowsky
Installation view with works by Youjin Yi, Patrick Ostrowsky and Boban Andjelkovic
Installation view with works by Youjin Yi
Youjin Yi, Untitled, 2017, oil, oil pastel on canvas, 145 x 195 cm
Youjin Yi, Koi und Teich, 2018, oil, oil pastel, graphite on Korean paper (Hanji), 135 x 200 cm
Installation view with works by Youjin Yi
Installation view with works by Patrick Ostrowsky and Lena von Goedeke
Installation view with works by Patrick Ostrowsky and Lena von Goedeke
Patrick Ostrowsky, floor piece, 2021, synthetic resin, pigments, polyurethanes, 91 x 53 x 18 cm
Installation view with works by Patrick Ostrowsky
Patrick Ostrowsky, detail of floreszenz Cs-134 (3011) #1, 2021, concrete, plaster, polyurethanes, wire cloth, glass fiber, pigments, epoxy resin, 60 x 30 x 6 cm
Installation view with works by Lena von Goedeke
Installation view with works by Lena von Goedeke
Lena von Goedeke, Remote Sensing II, 2016, antique glass, solder, copper, concrete look base, 70 x 80 x 25 cm
Installation view with works by Boban Andjelkovic
Installation view with works by Boban Andjelkovic
Installation view with works by Boban Andjelkovic
Boban Andjelkovic, Tête Rouge, 2021, oil on canvas, 84,5 x 61,5 cm
Boban Andjelkovic, Winke, winke, 2021, oil on canvas, 84,5 x 61,5 cm
Installation view with works by Caro Jost
Installation view with works by Caro Jost
Installation view with works by Caro Jost
Caro Jost, 089, 2021, acrylic, Streetprint on canvas
Caro Jost, BARNEYS, 2021, epoxy, acrylic, print on folded canvas, 39 x 47 x 24 cm
Caro Jost, 089, 2021, acrylic, Streetprint on canvas
Caro Jost, DIAMOND TASTE, 2020, epoxy, pigments, print on folded canvas on stretcher frame, 51 x 37 x 27 cm
About the Artists
Lena von Goedekes (*1983, Duisburg, DE, lives and works in Berlin) conceptual artistic approach is based on scientific findings and social phenomena. Her work revolves around the transformation of different materials into a complex statement about our perception of the world and the investigation of the possibilities and risks of a digitally presorted perception. Much of her work is influenced by her research travels to the Arctic. Von Goedeke explores our modern approach to nature and the digital surveying and tracking of landscape.
Concept artist Caro Jost (*1965 in Munich, DE, lives and works in Munich and New York) appropriates foreign traces, materials and memories, which she transforms into artworks with autobiographical as well as social relevance. In doing so, she is concerned with the transfer of historical reality into the present. Her "Streetprints" contain real imprints of asphalt surfaces of special places. In the series of the "Invoice Paintings", Caro Jost uses printouts of original invoices, notes or sketches from the archives of well-known artists. The pictures of the "Public Paintings" convey archive material from advertising and the mass media. By folding the canvas, she gives her latest works a heightened object-like quality.
Patrick Ostrowsky (*1991, Schwandorf, DE, lives and works in Munich) investigates sculpture and its relation to space, its function and interface with architecture and design. The theories of Minimal Art, Post Minimal Art and Land Art enter his work in many ways. Influenced by phenomena of abstract imprints into the urban landscape through natural or man-made processes, Ostrowsky is concerned with transferring structures of urban life and strategies of temporary architecture to sculpture. His latest works confront the narrative of modernity as constant technological progress with a post-urban vegetation that tells of the end of a system that has ultimately collapsed between the friction of nature and man.
Youjin Yi (*1980 in Gangneung, KOR, lives and works in Munich) combines figurative references and abstract, painterly structures in her multi-layered artistic language. Her works show landscape spaces occupied by people, animals or mixed creatures. Pictorial elements intertwine and become biomorphic forms. Yi's works visualize existential states of being and the complexity of our world and perception. She has developed a special iconography between the poles of Asian and Western culture and pictorial tradition. For her most recent works, she resorts to industrial material and turns to digital processes. The small-format polymer works give Yi's painting an object-like quality.
Images courtesy the artists and Britta Rettberg. Photography by Dirk Tacke
