Berliner Liste 2008
October 30th – November 2nd, 2008
1 p.m. – 9 p.m., on 2nd of November 1 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Opening: October 29, 2008, 6 p.m.; further info here.
fair-address:
House Cumberland, Kurfürstendamm 193-194, D-10707 Berlin
We will present the following artists:
RAY MALONE
In both the "Dimension" and "Meridian" series of paining, the British artist Ray Malone explores our perception of tonal variation. It is 'slow' work, needing the time to allow the subtlety of the form to reveal itself. Both series use three tones of one colour. In contrast to the geometric architectural forms in the paintings, the gestural charcoal drawings reference the structure of music. The lines of charcoal are similar to a musician’s variations on a musical phrase or figure. Ray Malone’s drawings develop those powerful three dimensional lines which emerge like reliefs from the paper. It is startling that his intellectual strength backed by intricate precision opens every possible avenue of playfulness and interpretation to the viewer.
JOHN POLLAK
John Pollak, born in Pyskowice, Poland, devoted himself to street photography during his New Yorker years. Galerie Förster showed examples of his work at the exhibition “New York Portraits” in the beginning of 2008. The special atmosphere of his pictures is caused by the fact that people are not aware of being photographed and can be seen completely undisguised. Besides John Pollak was constantly looking for abstract motifs, which he discovered in architecture as well as in unspectacular trivial items. He is pursuing this trend consequently since he moved to Berlin.
ALVIN BOOTH
The process of production and the combining of inner and outer worlds that fuels Alvin Booth like all artists. His props are simple: paint, latex, bodies, movement and, most of all, light. Shooting and developing are private, purposefully isolated activities of long hours and intense focus. At the art fair Berliner Liste he combines some of his earliest work, “Corpus”, and his most recent, “Ova”. He used the same camera for both sets of work but his focus has changed. When he first started shooting he wasn't interested in seeing the work of others; in fact, he avoided it scrupulously, almost fearfully, as though in avoiding the experience of other photographers' work he might avoid their influence. Nowadays Alvin realize that such a goal is as futile as it is limited, and that artists work in a kind of unconscious collusion, feeding on each other even when they haven't seen a particular work or style. Still, he remains most interested in representing what he likes to see and what he haven't seen before. Even if someone has been there before me, each photograph that he takes is still my brave new world, as wondrous as it is new.
Ray Malone
b-a-c-h #241 (2007)
Charcoal on paper
45 x 45 cm
Ray Malone
Dimension #24 (2004)
Acryl on paper
55 x 55 cm
John Pollak
New York Portrait,
12th Ave./West 43rd Street (2004)
Fine Art Ultrachrome Inkjet on Hahnemühle
90 x 60 cm
Alvin Booth
Osmosis #9908425 (2000)
C-Print
50 x 100 cm
