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Olaf Holzapfel
9 April
2010 – 11 May 2010
Opening:
Thursday 8 April, 6–9 p.m.
Olaf
Holzapfel
2 Räume
auf Tisch, Acrylglas / Epoxydharz
25 x 80
x 116 cm
109 x 84
x 128 cm
Galerie Sabine Knust is pleased to
announce a show of Olaf Holzapfel's most
recent sculptures and paintings. Olaf Holzapfel was born
in 1969 and lives and works in
Berlin.
In
medicine, a dislocation means a displacement or twisting of
bones or parts thereof. In the military, a deployment means
the spatial distribution or displacement of military units by
the leadership to the field, taking account of the functions
to be fulfilled.
The
search for what is relevant and new gains a pilot function.
The table is literally cleared to open up the possibility of
positioning the discourse. The traces of working in the
fragile, light weight of a design, of a model; the leaps and
cut-off edges of a freely associative thinking have become in
the table qua sculpture a platform for purposive speaking. How
can I counterpose a concept, a conceivable proposal to the
splinters of today's world?
Olaf
Holzapfel
Zeitfenster 81,
2010
Oil on
Canvas
150 x
110 cm
The
symptoms of a displacement of what is usual in order to
initiate a fresh start in thinking can always be observed in
the reception of Holzapfel's sculptures. The material puts the
imagined sense of touch increasingly under pressure; almost
against one's will, one's hand wants to secure the sculpture's
stability. The elegance of the expression puts rational
thinking under pressure; almost automatically, a moment of
pleasure comes to the fore. The radical void within the
amorphous block made of acrylic glass calls for occupation in
a dialogue with perception; something is seen into that calls
not only for a circling-around in the Husserlian sense, but
for true in-sight. It is characteristic that viewers regularly
refuse to do this, and prefer to set up something opposite in
order to create a background for the sculpture’s existence, to
produce an element of security.
"I
think that one must insist on an element of something new when
making art. It is always a matter of something extraordinary,
of something as yet unseen, or of something already seen, but
seen in a new way, of a derangement and displacement that
brings forth a need."
(Olaf
Holzapfel in Das Nomadische Kriterium, Dumont
2009)
Olaf
Holzapfel
Ort der
Handlung, 2010
Epoxydharz
109 x 66
x 66 cm
and
Backpack
auf Tisch, 2008/2010
Acrylglas, Epoxydharz
30 x 67
x 112 cm
106 x 85
x 120 cm
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