ArtisVita.com

Petra Korte






Exhibition august 3rd to september 9th 2006
petra_korte1.jpg

Petra Korte’s salt objects are artistic contributions to an archaeology of the view, excavations of the visible world and its dream shape behind the automated habits, with which in everyday life we don’t really see the things, at it’s best we just remark their functionality.

The objects play with the diaphanousness, the charms of the envelope, with which the nature regains posession of the artifacts of the humans, of the traces of the human life. Like the thorn hedge from the fairy tale the salt grows on (too)familiar but also on strange objects, hides things, names, words and opens them at the same time for the view of the spectator. If the tender, fine-linked covering creates in the first view a distance for the everyday-life habits of regard, the immobilized objects, overgrown magically with crystals, bind the attentive eye and invite it, to re-establish the old, intimate confidenceness which marked the view.at it’s origin.

By the patterns of the crystals the light falls with new multiple bends on the objects, which neither hides their use nor their dignity, a dignity, which is always the dignity of humans, to which they refer.

Renzo Mauro
Some exhibitions:

2006
Hexagone Galerie, Aachen

Villa von Thaden, Köln
2005 Monrepo-Galerie, Neuwied

Hexagone Galerie, Aachen

Atelierhaus Salge, Much

Rhenania-Kunsthaus, Köln
2004
Kunstverein Frechen, Frechen

Städt. Galerie Fürstenwalde
2003
Annopolis Marina Art Gallery / Maryland

Miriam Shiell Fine Arts, Toronto
2002
Tory Gallery, Toronto

Please click on the small pictures for a bigger one. Use the "back" button of your browser to return to this page.


thumb Blau-Rot-petra-kortet.jpg
thumb double-s-w-petra-kortet.jpg
thumb message-IX-Petra-Kortet.jpg
Quadratur, 2005
Double XI, 2004 Nachricht (message) IX, 2004
thumb Salinenpackung-Petra-Kortet.jpg
thumb Schuhleiter-petra-kortet.jpg
thumb Violet-III-Petra-Kortet.jpg
Hülle (cover), 2003
Kristallschuh (cristal shoe), 2005
Violet V, 2004
original text (german)
vita (german)
back