Jessica Warboys, Snake Song, 2011, Glasmalerei, Courtesy die Künstlerin und Gaudel de Stampa, Paris

Jessica Warboys, Ausstellungsansicht, Foto: Philipp Ottendörfer, © Bielefelder Kunstverein
Jessica Warboys, Ausstellungsansicht, Foto: Philipp Ottendörfer, © Bielefelder Kunstverein
Jessica Warboys, Ausstellungsansicht, Foto: Philipp Ottendörfer, © Bielefelder Kunstverein
Jessica Warboys, Ausstellungsansicht, Foto: Philipp Ottendörfer, © Bielefelder Kunstverein
Jessica Warboys, Ausstellungsansicht, Foto: Philipp Ottendörfer, © Bielefelder Kunstverein
Jessica Warboys, Ausstellungsansicht, Foto: Philipp Ottendörfer, © Bielefelder Kunstverein

Jessica Warboys

AUGUST 25 – NOVEMBER 04, 2012

OPENING: FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 19 PM

Specific landscapes and nature itself usually form the starting point for the artistic works of Jessica Warboys. Also highly significant for her are biographical background material and a concern with the collective memory. Her paintings, sculptures and videos bear traces of the immediate surroundings and of performative sequences of actions. Natural elements like water, light, colour pigments, various objects and vehicles for imagery thus become independent actors. The artist exploits the physical characteristics of the materials she uses and applies them artistically, in order to foster new types of pictures. In all this, openness in form is a fundamental aspect, together with documenting and making transparent the way the pictures are produced as a part of the working process. As a matter of principle, Warboys relates closely to space in her work.

For her work at the Bielefelder Kunstverein, Jessica Warboys is comnining the history of a library, photographs and drawings from the French dancer, Hélène Vanel, one of the Surrealist circle, with expansive paintings. In this way, an essay will arise out of images, objects and gestures. In collaboration with Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Warboys is supplementing this especially for the opening week by developing the performance, »Vanelephant«, a translation for the stage of her artist’s edition, which is appearing concurrently. This exhibition at the Bielefeld Society of Arts is the first solo appearance in Germany by the British artist, who is also currently showing at dOCUMENTA (13).

Jessica Warboys, born 1977 in Newport (UK), lives and works between London and Paris. She is a graduate of the Falmouth College of Arts and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Warboys has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions, A Painting Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Rome (2012), Victory Park Tree Painting, Cell Project Space, London (2011), Land and Sea, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur- Seine, Paris (2011), A l'étage, Satellite Series, Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz – Jeu de Paume (2011), Ballad of the Green Hoop, South London Gallery – a live film / event (2010), and Parasol, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris (2009). Works presented in various group shows, include, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012), Au loin, une île !, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, (2011), Madam Realism, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Tableux, Le Magasin, Grenoble, (2011), and The October Show, Limoncello, London (2010).

Curator: Thomas Thiel

 

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