PETRA KORTE

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Petra Korte

Exhibition august 3rd to september 9th 2006

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

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Quadratur, 2005	Double XI, 2004	Nachricht (message) IX, 2004

Hülle (cover), 2003	Kristallschuh (cristal shoe), 2005	Violet V, 2004
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