NANCY SPERO – EYLEM ALADOGAN
Twenty Years of the Barbara Gross Gallery
June 10 – July 26, 2008
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On June 8, 1988, the Barbara Gross Gallery opened in the Lehel quarter of Munich. An exhibition celebrating the gallery’s twentieth anniversary brings together Nancy Spero and Eylem Aladogan — two artists whose works characterize the direction of the gallery’s program.
Nancy Spero had her first solo show in Europe at the gallery in 1988. She incorporated feminist issues, socio-political commitment, and the gender debate into the exhibition praxis. Although Spero was hardly known in Europe at that time, Barbara Gross initiated many exhibitions at museums for her. Today, the 81-year-old artist has achieved an excellent international reputation. Our anniversary exhibition features a small retrospective of her work, with pieces from different phases, some of which were previously seen in shows at the gallery.
The young conceptual Dutch artist Eylem Aladogan makes drawings and sculptures which are inspired by personal experience, visual impressions from the everyday environment, and the exploration of modern techniques and knowledge. In her work technological objects are placed in intriguing relationships to natural and organic elements. She uses unusual methods to process and alter the character of her materials. Glass looks like metal, ceramic like leather, plastic like mother-of-pearl; surprising associations are created, disrupting the original context and transforming the actual source material into symbolic form.
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