Ordered Pairs – Art Catalog

• 36 pages
• Broschur, stitched
• with about 80, partly coloured, illustrations

978-3-86638-237-4

10.00 €           

TUPEL - Open Space for an Ordered Collection of Values: In the exhibition TUPEL, on which the catalog is based, Sabine Voigt shows various groups of works from her œuvre that have been created since 2013. The focus is predominantly on ordered pairs of images and themes that are formally used as an expression of communication, connection, and landscape-forming line in a drawing.

In part, the paired images, drawn on gray cardboard, complement each other to form frieze-like structures, a demarcation of the individual image pieces from the pair, but also the segmentation of pairs within multi-part image series is just as possible as it is interrupted - just as the algebraic term "tuple" is used here, it also dissolves again, the dimensions between the image element and the overall image become suspended, blurred in the moment as they attempt to formulate themselves. - What the catalog cannot show, but does show in its compilation of full-page single images and double-page series views, are the floating »edges« of the images: These extend around the edges of the pictures on the drawing board, conquer the third dimension between the picture support and the gallery wall, and thus pass their pictorial structures - such as horizon lines, landscape forms, plant structures, groups of people - from picture panel to picture panel.

In a similar way, the individual images, collaged from ink gradients, white areas, and found object prints inserted as frottages, simultaneously dissolve and concretize: There are presumably earth-age moments in the manner of cave drawings next to futuristic-alien-like figures, pieces of industrial waste next to plant worlds of watercolor-like subtlety, copies of newspaper photographs next to overpaintings that reach into the plastic - and thus simultaneously blur the time told in individual sections of the paintings by drawing up a pictorial space stretched from the Stone Age into uncertain futures.

In these intermediate dimensions - between two-dimensional sheet and three-dimensional picture arrangement, between fractalized time strands, between picture dimensions folded into each other like almond bread - great discoveries can be made when looking at them: One encounters image blocks of high concreteness reaching into the temporal-political, associations to abstract image worlds open up as in the work of Tobias Rappel or Hannsjörg Voth, ink scenes open up as in stop-go sequences by William Kentridge, constructional structures like those by Corbussier suggest themselves, cave paintings of archaic gesture light up. - But these are only comparisons; more important might be:

In the tension of the compositional quality of the individual as well as the overall work and the many detailed discoveries, one of the actual forces of these works emerges, which the catalog is able to convey in a way that is rarely achieved in other artists' catalogs: the narrative dimension of Sabine Voigt's art develops.

Stay curious!