Bühnebilder
By: Silke Otto-Knapp ; [edited by John Rasmussen and Alice Dodge ; texts by Darby English, Ariane Müller, Aram Moshayedi]
Contributors: Rasmussen, John, editor; Dodge, Alice, editor; English, Darby, 1974- writer of supplementary textual content; Müller, Ariane, writer of supplementary textual content; Moshayedi, Aram, writer of supplementary textual content; Midway Contemporary Art (Gallery)
Series: Roma Publication -- 352; ROMA publication -- 352.
Publisher: Midway Contemporary Art
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780996524131
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Exhibitions; Watercolor painting
Description: Bühnenbilder, the title of Silke Otto-Knapp' recent exhibition in Minneapolis, are the fabricated views resulting from dressing sets. Neutral until they are costumed, they are like blank volumes awaiting a set designer's meticulous treatment. The only colours in these works are black, grey, silver, and white. The artist's palette and methodology, in which she applies a dark watercolour wash and then subtracts from it using absorptive implements, raising images from the dark, reflects the photograph's urge to resurface something whose very location - in history, memory, desire - eludes the grasp of any image.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 17, 2017-January 20, 2018.