ANNA MCCARTHY
Flat no.1
Opening:
Hamburg, Samstag 04.02.2012
I hereby warmly invite you to the solo show of the British artistAnna McCarthy,
'Flat no.1'.
Anna McCarthy divides the gallery into living spaces. Within the 'flat' (pun
intended), art becomes an everyday object and fraternises with the pot or
the lampshade.
The tablecloth fits well to the picture. Looks good this next to that, don't
you think ?
The artist sees the flat as a space, in which fiction and reality overlap.
Order and chaos alongside each other; the bold and the revealing subjectivity
of layers (be it dirt or memories) conserve boredom, freedom, poverty or
dreams behind glass; in a passepartout or in the dust and dirt of this and
that.
Anna McCarthy mixes work, everyday life and art in her multidisciplinary
activities – whether it be when directing a play (“Ich dachte
man darf alles”, 2011) or making films, in her installations, drawings
or photos – she always incorporates figures from her everyday life.
The documentary form is exaggerated, romanticised, mixed with the fictive
and often depicts - with a healthy dose of black humour - people who are
bored, decadent, trapped in the past, struggling with everyday life and hopelessly
looking for trouble.
No ? Oh yes.
Greetings,
Niklas Schechinger
ANNA MCCARTHY
Flat no.1
Opening:
Samstag, 04.02.2012 ab 7pm
Buchperformance: 9pm
Duration:
08.02.2012 – 03.03.2011
Niklas Schechinger Fine Art - HAMBURG
Trommelstr.7
20359 Hamburg
office@schechinger-fine-art.com
T: 0049-178 197 8 167