【 Movements and time 】
Do. 28. August
SPEED SPEECH
Zur Ausstellung "Works in progress"
In a moment of action, Ana Montecucco focuses the attention, in a close up view, on simple and daily yet unusual and unexpected subjects such as opening the top of a can with a can opener or pealing an apple with a knife etc, using basic pencil drawings. The drawings arranged together in a wall installation stimulate the question about the amount of tools produced for the heaps of goods and products around us. In another word the work refers to the consumer society and questions the position of the human body in such a consumer culture. This meaning is also present in the other conceptual work of the same artist: She turned a small window into a mailbox where visitors are asked to send their questions about anything or even their personal problems to the artist who will answer them. This means that the artist is a tool, which is a symbolic idea for the power of thinking and creation that we all possess.
Contrary to Ana Montecucco`s work in which she only uses dry pencil lines, is the work of Kartik Sood that depends mainly on the intensity of colors. Sood uses old black and white photos of places, buildings and nature – and colors them in a narrative and unrealistic way creating a different realty closer to the sense of dreams. The original photo is a layer that represents a certain moment in the past, and the action of coloring represents yet another layer. Between the two layers, time arises as a present and obvious element.
One could say that the works of both artists complete each other for the totally different aspects they deal with: Montecucco`s with movements while Sood`s with time. The first with the very reality while the other with fantasy or the so-called magic reality.
Youssef Limoud, Artist and Writer