Tina Berning’s 100 Girls On Cheap Paper + The Passengers
This September, gallery hanahou is celebrating the release of Tina Berning’s new edition of her sold-out book 100 Girls on Cheap Paper.
100 Girls on Cheap Paper, originally released by German publishing house Printkultur, is comprised of Berning’s project of 100 illustrations of women and girls – drawings and paintings that are in turns beautiful, playful, shocking, and moving – including images of the different kinds of yellowing and lined found paper that the artist used as her canvas.
The new edition published by Chronicle Books makes TIna Berning’s girls more widely available than ever and includes a new translation of the introduction by German curator and art critic Claudia Seidel.
At the same time, Tina Berning is opening her second solo show in New York, titled “The Passengers,” an exhibition that has grown out of the artist’s 2009 Munich solo show “The Listeners.”
With “The Passengers,” Tina Berning continues to explore the relationships between conditioned aesthetics and supposed subjective ambition in the canon of contemporary visuals.
The drawings formulate the artist’s own images of the human body, its inadequacy and its fundamental relation to self-determination.
Tina Berning releases figures out of their heteronomous, medial contexts and shifts them into an interplay between voyeurism and exhibitionism.
She uses her paintings and drawings as carriers to extricate subjects from the contemporary alienated incapacitation. Codes and matrices blanket faces, streaks of colour lie like shadows over the delicate silhouettes.
Interventions that follow Tina Berning’s study open the plainness of schemes into the ambiguity of expression.
She makes subtle corrections to the standard, uniform face and figure, enabling a look of physical expressiveness to return. Even when they appear fragile and vulnerable, the faces and images of the people take on a form that is more resistive.
About Tina Berning
Known for her versatility and uncompromising artistic sensibility, Berlin-based Tina Berning is one of the most sought after illustrators worldwide.
She has exhibited solo shows in the USA, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and her commercial work is always in high demand from clients in advertising, design, and publishing.
Tina Berning’s 100 Girls On Cheap Paper + The Passengers
Exhibition opening on Thursday, September 10th, 2009, 6-9 p.m.
Talk with the artist open to the public on Saturday, September 12th, at 2 p.m.
RSVP to info@galleryhanahou.com
gallery hanahou
611 Broadway, Suite 730
New York, NY 10012
646 486 6586
info@galleryhanahou.com
www.galleryhanahou.com
Opening hours: Mon – Fri 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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