8.
TWO OF U.S.
Studio exhibition by artist Madeline Hall of the Liverpool studio
building, The Royal Standard 'in the studio by the Cologne artist
Veronika Moos-Brochhagen
Books embody Western culture more than any other subject. But that
was until recently, before the new digital media came into the world
and attacking the traditional media in many areas, replaced and displaced
in their meaning. Thus the book has given way to its central importance
in preserving and developers for the knowledge and experience of Western
culture. Likewise, in history and in poetry, the book is no longer
the dominant medium on which is based the majority of people. Instead,
the cold poetry of screens as the preferred medium of exchange stories
and emotions has become. Although books unawares as the embodiment
of the traditional culture of knowledge are everywhere still, it is
clear that the importance of the classic book in itself 21st Century
has changed. The book, especially in its spending carefully designed
with solid, beautiful bindings, has become the object of nostalgia.
The old book, which had for centuries as a medium of knowledge preservation
and revitalization thought its practical value, has become an object
that is now more fascinated by his appearance than by the force of
its contents. At the mere sight of old books inevitably gets a remembrance
of the past, the culture in transition. This effect is almost comparable
to that of previous generations of cultural objects in museums, archaeological
or ethnological museums, where one attaches no current relevance anymore,
but only an exhilarating fantasy force. The book has become a real
object to the dreamed. Exactly at this point is where the Liverpool
artist Madeline Hall, when she records the covers and front pages
of old books. Based on the in rem aura of historical books she developed
with sweeping lines and gentle with yourself vortastenden strokes
her intuitive drawings. Located in the seductive to the eye field
between representation and abstraction-free, taking shape and form
of refraction.
Why should one 300 pages Plato and Thomas Hobbes read if one can even
vaguely drawing contours imagine a different world. Break through
the drawings in the Scotland-born, living in Liverpool artist cornered
the words stuck and lead our thinking in the open ground of intuition.
Put away the growing on the organization of the book, the power of
the written book drawings playfully repealed? Or just do imperceptibly
to the question of the value of the books have their function as a
mere text-winner but as sensuous objects for the education of our
experiences? Madeline Hall's drawings on books we suggest how thinking
and imagining developed from sense experience. The book has a fundamentally
sensual dimension. We read not only about the eyes, but also on the
palms and fingertips. This experience precludes a contemporary culture
in which our thinking and imagination inspiring words are developing
more and more on digital screens. The words and images on the screens
of mobile phones, e-books and laptops are no longer tied to a conscious
aesthetically pleasing materiality. The sensual and aesthetic dimension
of digital media are hardly surpassed in sobriety. Madeline Hall's
artistic access to the medium of the book reminds us of the days when
there were knowledge and aesthetic experience yet in a resilient balance.
Madeline Hall showing her art in the studio of the Cologne sculptor
and painter Veronika Moos-Brochhagen. The preference for years working
with textiles and found objects artist emphasizes the sensual dimension
of our experience. Especially in the use of traditional techniques
of textile art in the form of affirming contemporary artistic and
sculptural experiments the importance of a "grounded aesthetics".
So with the textile screen objects by Veronika Moos-Brochhagen and
the object-like drawings by Madeline Hall brings together two different
artistic approaches, both in their own way to make the weight of tradition
to the scale of contemporary art.
Studio house, the harbor district '- Atelier Moss Brochhagen (Atleier
3-83)
Bollard Kirchweg 78, 51105 Cologne, Tel: 0221-4717475
29th 14-20 September 2012 clock
