Vanishing Point
Paris From September 4, 2021 to October 16, 2021
The new series of works created this year constitutes the heart of the exhibition by reinterpreting in a new way techniques that have been studied repeatedly by the artist through his career. The shiny and monochromatic surfaces, made of synthetic resin varnish, stretch together with the painting which seems to free itself from the canvas or be forcefully pulled out of it. Is it the consequence of a destructive yet controlled gesture of the artist? Or is it a distortion determined by the materiality of the artwork itself? Created in continuity with Strategie der steine 3 – an emblematic piece where a large rectangular block made of painted plasterboards seems to have crashed to the ground – this new series comes from the idea that beauty and perfection can also emerge from the shapeless and the chaotic. According to the artist, creation and destruction are two equal conception modes that allow, through various transformation processes, to question what Beauty truly is.
In the matter/constant series, shown for the first time in an eponym exhibition held in 2018, Sebastian Wickeroth explores the natural mutation process by mixing photographs taken in Iceland, China and the Alps with spray paint on glass. The blue-colored filter created by pigments sprayed directly on the glass transforms and gives life to the landscape that was frozen in the moment. The nuances then reveal certain elements of the photographic composition and veil some others, blurring the line between the photograph, the added color and the actual space between them.
A space of the gallery will also be dedicated to a video presentation of the Raw Feels photographic series, only shown once before at the Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow in 2019. This photographic series, made with a smartphone throughout the subway stations of Moscow and St-Petersburgh, questions the limits of our visual perception and the veracity of our reality. The ambition of this project was to focus the camera angle on the neon lights on the ceiling, with the adjustments made in terms of brightness and exposition bringing all the other elements of the image into darkness. Therefore, the camera proves the capacity of the human brain to compensate and even craft our perception of space, thus creating its own reality and perspectives. Through this exhibition, the artist leads the viewer to a wider and augmented encounter with their own physical self and the founding principles of their individual experience of the world.
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62 rue de Turbigo
75003, Paris
France
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Sebastian Wickeroth
Germany
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