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SUMMARY:Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo - Silke Otto-Knapp “Violets”
DESCRIPTION:Silke Otto-Knapp “Violets”\nDates: Sep 7 – Oct 6\, 2018\nLocation: Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo\nOpening reception: Friday\, Sep. 7\, 17:00 – 19:00 \nTaka Ishii Gallery is pleased to present our third exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Silke Otto-Knapp. \nViolets \nOral tradition describes violets as those whose blossoms are hidden and smell fragrant. Some are alpine violets because they were potted in Zurich near the Alps.\nBut most are just ordinary violets\, the blue ones that grow near hedges and beneath trees and that flower in the fall.\nAs children\, we even had such small violet bushes in our garden and often smelled them.\nOh\, that smells good! And now\, as a grownup\, I have got used to looking\nfor little violets and finding them\, always and everywhere\,\nin summer\, winter\, fall and spring.\nDo they not greet us everywhere\, the little violets that look at us so sweetly and faithfully with their childlike blue eyes? Quietly fragrant\, do they not lead their violet life full of fragrant modesty in this world of spring\, those lovely violets?\nI know all of this very well and therefore I picked\nand picked more. Some I also dug out with the roots\,\nthey continue to grow.\nMost violets flower in March. In April\, they are mostly called Anemones.\nIn May\, they are called Lilies of the Valley and in June Maybug.\nIn December\, however\, they bloom\non cold windowpanes and are called frost flowers.\nRead\, dear sir\, dear madam\, dear miss—please cross out the address that doesn’t apply and write to me in full confidence\, which violet has smelled the most fragrant.\nThat would be a festival for me! \n  \nKURT SCHWITTERS\, HANNOVER\,\nWALDHAUSENSTR. 5 * \nThe title of the exhibition refers to a journal of poetry Kurt Schwitters published in 1931 in Hannover. The Journal brought together a selection of poems by his peers. Schwitters’ own poem Veilchen (Violets) was printed on the cover as both an address to the reader and a statement of intent from the artist\, who likens the small and beautiful flowers that have the strength to grow under almost any conditions\, to the poems presented in the journal. \nThe group of paintings in the exhibition take their starting point from the Schwitters journal. They range from landscapes to paintings based on historical documentation of stage design and performance. By transforming the space with her painting process of building and removing layers of watercolor\, Otto-Knapp creates degrees of transparency and opacity with layers of movement in one uninterrupted surface. Her paintings could be compared to looking at a photographic negative where there is a constant play of negative and positive\, producing an unstable space that nevertheless has a distinct physical presence. \nFor this exhibition\, a group of smaller paintings are shown with one large multi-panel painting. The large painting “Stage (After Schwitters)” introduces both architectural and theatrical space. \nIn the mid 1920s\, Schwitters developed a concept for theaters he called Normalbühne [Standard (or Normal) Stage]. Influenced by the economy and pragmatism of Constructivism\, he wanted to design elements for a stage that would work with any text or form of production. He imagined every theater would have a set of the props and the technical instructions necessary to operate them. His design makes use of abstract shapes such as the cube\, sphere\, circle\, steps\, rectangles\, squares\, etc. that can be used to construct a theatrical space that plays with depth and illusion. \nOtto-Knapp’s painting imagines a stage set that uses these instructions\, while also anticipating the many possible new combinations and constellations they allow. \nBorn in 1970 in Osnabrück\, Silke Otto-Knapp majored in cultural studies at the University of Hildesheim and received her MFA from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. She has held solo exhibitions at the Midway Contemporary Art\, Minneapolis (2017); the Art Gallery of Ontario\, Toronto (2015); the Kunsthalle Wien and the Camden Arts Centre\, London (2014); the Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Copenhagen (2013); the Kunstverein Munich (2010); and the Tate Britain\, London (2005). She has also participated in many group exhibitions\, including the Liverpool Biennal 2018\, “Beautiful world where are you?”; “Made in L.A. 2016: a\, the\, though\, only”\, the Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles (2016); “Sacré 101 – An Exhibition Based on The Rite of Spring”\, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst\, Zurich (2014); “Dance/Draw”\, the ICA\, Boston\, MA (2011); and the 9th International Istanbul Biennial (2005).
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LOCATION:Taka Ishii Gallery\, 6-5-24 3F Roppongi Minato-ku\, Tokyo\, Tokyo\, 106-0032\, Japan
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