Vinyl painting
Ned Vena paints with stickers. The New York based artist designs sharply defined geometrical patterns on the computer, cuts them onto black adhesive vinyl foil and sticks them onto aluminum boards. When he works on canvas, he cuts the foil into a negative form, covers the whole surface with rubber spray or acrylic paint and removes the foil, leaving a positive imprint on the canvas. The result is in any case an astonishingly meticulous abstract motive. What prevents Vena’s works from being strictly computer designed are the unpredictable wrinkle streaks he occasionally provokes when removing the back sheet of the sticky foil. They add a beautiful touch of spontaneity.
Quite obvious in contrast is the clash between the metallic look of the aluminum boards – also used as the construction material of the New York metro trains – and the turn-of-the-century ornamented wooden floors of the Société gallery space. Société is an emerging gallery, run by Hans Bülow and Daniel Wichelhaus, that developed from the ›Max Hans Daniel‹ project with which they used to organize exhibitions all over Berlin.
In their stucco flat in Schöneberg’s Genthiner Straße amidst prostitutes and furniture stores, Bülow and Wichelhaus are steadily building up their gallery profile – mainly with New York artists but without a strict concept. They want to stay open minded towards various independent artistic projects: Like producing a record with musician and performance artist Sergei Tcherepnin (2011), and organizing a public exhibition/ performance with Davis Rhodes at Bahnhof Zoo, Berlin (2009). In fact, Bülow and Wichelhaus are renovating the apartment next door in order to have even more space – to experiment.
On display until October 22, 2011.
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