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| NICO ILHEIN | |
| May 4 – June 3, 2006 | |
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| WITH A GREAT EFFORT I FIGHT MY SLUGGISHNESS- WHY DID WE GET UP? OVER THERE EVERYTHING WAS EASIER, HERE IT IS ALL UNCLEAR Humans that always need to adapt to many different situations. The position of the individual who finds himself/herself in an unclear situation- a dinner, for example, is some business taking place underneath? Can I make money, somehow? The partitions throughout the exhibition are delineating space: almost barriers, but not really. They show the brokenness of the situation. The drawings of the black and white characters positioned between two “blinders” that create an enclosure, live in a world of their own; they are people living today, like you and me. The ceramic wall sculptures and the collages/drawings based on Greek and Roman vases or remnants of sculptures suggest the broken myths that exist in all of us. The works are so unfinished they look weird. In a world of industrial goods everything amorphous looks alienating if compared to our internalized industrial aesthetic standards Alienation makes us more alienated. The art object as the estranging being. The artist looks at it and feels the distance, though there is a close relationship. In art you make something that looks “alienating”, still you’re close to it since you have made it. Nico Ihlein, 2006 Nico Ihlein is presenting for his first solo exhibition with Nice & Fit a series of black and white drawings of characters cast in doubt, crashed by disjunctions of memory, work, social relations. Against the gallery front window, a black panel is leaning, partially blocking the view. A seating arrangement, a piece of a parquet floor found around the corner from the gallery, a ready-made that looks like an Albert Gleizes ceramic. The partitions separate the gallery reflecting on the individuals’ sense of being in the contemporary world: often in unclear situations, in many different, broken niches. Issues of work always at play. Memories of a possibly unreal, other time. At the rear of the gallery he is placing new sculptures. Partly made out clay/porcelain parts and unspecialized materials they are affixed on the wall as if to recall the history compressed in relics of an other world. Lit through scratched projected transparencies, the lighting illustrates the unreachable other world. Nico Ihlein was born in Neckarsulm, Germany in 1972. He has been a member of the Berlin based art collective Honey-Suckle Company since 1996. Recent exhibitions include “non est hic”, Kunsthalle Basel, “Between the spokes”, KS Art, New York, “Great value”, Kunstverein Frankfurt, “ohnend”, Cubitt, London, “Die Februar Show”, Nice & Fit, Berlin. For more information and images please contact Catherine Griffiths or Helena Papadopoulos at mail@niceandfitgallery.com or 030 440 45976. Gallery hours: Tue-Sat, 12-6 pm and by appointment. |
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