Isa Genzken - Contemporary Artists

Installation

Isa Genzken, Installation The Saatchi Gallery
 

Isa Genzken

Kinder Filmen I

2005
Mirror, metal, adhesive tape, magazine and book pages, stamps acrylic, lacquer, spray paint. 
280 x 100 cm each panel
(Wall Installation of Four Parts)

Leaning against the wall as a series of towers or screens, Isa Genzken’s installation becomes simultaneously painterly and architectural: her giant mirror plates like translucent building facades, encapsulating reflections of the gallery interior within their chaotic framework. Highlighting this illusion between flat and perceived space, Genzken collages her glass planes with pages torn from books, bands of tape, and dripping paint, creating a sense of weightlessness in their layered materiality. Repetitive grids, greasy lines, and candy coloured bars, become entangled as urban decay, devouring antiquarian images in its graffiti-like debasement. Titled Kinder Filmen 1, Genzken’s installation suggests information overload broadcast as disrupted transmission, her formalist excess presenting a break down of innocence.

 
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