Christine König Galerie @ Art Berlin Contemporary 2014 | Solo: Anne SCHNEIDER
Anne Schneider’s amorphous forms on iron rods become sculptures, giving rise to associations of an anthropomorphic presence in the space they occupy. Hard concrete surfaces carrying the impressions of soft seams are worked at other points into pillowy towers and alien volumes, which like empty spaces give structure to the arrangement. Form is found through a sort of negative dialectic.
Serial elements sewn together are deployed over individual walls, transforming them into large, generally monochromatic surfaces. One sees that these are empty coffee sacks that have been turned inside out, coated unevenly with traces of paint and sewn together into wall hangings. The raw, meshed structure of the material remains visible, its twodimensionality giving rise to a blurring of color that is able to dissolve the hardness of the white cube.
In her critical exploration of painting, the artist thematizes and queries the canon of abstraction, doing so on the surfaces of burlap bags. The manner in which these pieces of fabric are spread out and ordered introduces a kind of disintegrative process. Ignoring the picture surface as the locus of artistic creation, Schneider advances through layerings to the dimensionality of sculpture, which could also be accorded the function of furniture.
