Exhibitions
Vera Boele-Keimer: Crossing The Line
Merging structural ideas with intuition, materiality, imagination and movement, Vera produces work that draws attention to the processes and imperfect
Exhibition opening with performance: Friday 23rd August 6-8pm
Performance: /and back by Eeva-Maria Mutka and Vera Boele-Keimer
Bristol-based artist Vera Boele-Keimer is presenting a new body of work, exploring the rich relationship between textiles and painting. Merging structural ideas with intuition, materiality, imagination and movement, Vera produces work that draws attention to the processes and imperfections of making. Her grid-based compositions ask questions about the relationship between surface and ground, pattern and movement, drawing and painting.
Movement artist Eeva-Maria Mutka and Vera will present /and back, a performative response to the exhibition which they developed as a collaborative project over several months, addressing physical movement both in making and responding to the works. Using simple props in semi-structured and improvised ways they focus on the role of playful exploration, simple acts of transformation and new ways of working.
The starting point for Vera’s current work is the parallels she sees in the crossing of lines to create visual surfaces and the crossing of threads to create woven surfaces. Anni Albers’ description of fabric as “pliable plane” resonates with the artist who uses the material qualities and characteristics of painting to create works that cross the line – between object, drawing, textile and painting.
Folding has become a way of emphasising sculptural aspects of a painting ground whilst lending itself to a repetitive process that allows a semi-systematic way of working across a surface. In her mind, this methodical aspect of her work is linked to ideas about weaving where a fabric is slowly constructed one line at a time. In a similar way, masking tape is used repetitively to define narrow lines in which paint is applied as line.
However, the folded, scraped, painted or printed lines are less rigid, less reliable than their underlying principles – ends don’t meet, boundaries blur, paper becomes fragile. On closer inspection there is fallibility in the simplest gestures, as if despite best efforts things move on.
Opening Times:
Thursday - Saturday 10am-3pm
Performances: Friday 23rd August 6.30pm, Saturday 24th August 11.30 am, Thursday 5th September 6.30pm
Exhibition opening with performance: Friday 23rd August 6-8pm
www.veraboelekeimer.co.uk
@veraboelekeimer
www.eevamariamutka.com
Performance: /and back by Eeva-Maria Mutka and Vera Boele-Keimer
Bristol-based artist Vera Boele-Keimer is presenting a new body of work, exploring the rich relationship between textiles and painting. Merging structural ideas with intuition, materiality, imagination and movement, Vera produces work that draws attention to the processes and imperfections of making. Her grid-based compositions ask questions about the relationship between surface and ground, pattern and movement, drawing and painting.
Movement artist Eeva-Maria Mutka and Vera will present /and back, a performative response to the exhibition which they developed as a collaborative project over several months, addressing physical movement both in making and responding to the works. Using simple props in semi-structured and improvised ways they focus on the role of playful exploration, simple acts of transformation and new ways of working.
The starting point for Vera’s current work is the parallels she sees in the crossing of lines to create visual surfaces and the crossing of threads to create woven surfaces. Anni Albers’ description of fabric as “pliable plane” resonates with the artist who uses the material qualities and characteristics of painting to create works that cross the line – between object, drawing, textile and painting.
Folding has become a way of emphasising sculptural aspects of a painting ground whilst lending itself to a repetitive process that allows a semi-systematic way of working across a surface. In her mind, this methodical aspect of her work is linked to ideas about weaving where a fabric is slowly constructed one line at a time. In a similar way, masking tape is used repetitively to define narrow lines in which paint is applied as line.
However, the folded, scraped, painted or printed lines are less rigid, less reliable than their underlying principles – ends don’t meet, boundaries blur, paper becomes fragile. On closer inspection there is fallibility in the simplest gestures, as if despite best efforts things move on.
Opening Times:
Thursday - Saturday 10am-3pm
Performances: Friday 23rd August 6.30pm, Saturday 24th August 11.30 am, Thursday 5th September 6.30pm
Exhibition opening with performance: Friday 23rd August 6-8pm
www.veraboelekeimer.co.uk
@veraboelekeimer
www.eevamariamutka.com
