010210: Galerie Michaela Stock: Stephanie Guse and Karin Sulimma – Fin de Siècle! – den ländlichen Sonnenschein verwursten (processing the rural sunshine)

Galerie Michaela Stock: Stephanie Guse and Karin Sulimma – Fin de Siècle! – den ländlichen Sonnenschein verwursten (processing the rural sunshine) Resistance in the sunshine A first and quick glance at the works displayed at the Gallery Michaela Stock by Stephanie Guse and Karin Sulimma does not convey much about the similarities between both artists. Strands of interpersonal relationships swing in both artists’ installations and photographs. Karin Sulimma’s artistic motif and starting point of her multilayered projects is the lotus flower –as a symbol for time passing by as well as its meaning in Buddha’s teachings. In the two-part sculptures “Lotus Verde” and “Lotus Giallo” she describes the complexity of interpersonal relationships and the confrontation with their environment, using the lotus as a metaphor: while its roots are immersed in mud, it blooms on the surface. Numerous self-contained two-part drawings condense the “Project Lotus” and its multi-layered relationship structures. Stephanie Guse “processes” the daily sunshine with commercial production methods. In addition to the revised photos showing people from her immediate surroundings, she centres on the current situation of the environment in the installation “Side views, always when I want to throw paper away…”, but always in combination with the aesthetics of industrial throwaway products. The end of the century – something, which was once seen as a time of change and renewal – seems to last - with its crisis, insecurity and depression. Maybe some rural sun and the reflection on relationships - both towards people as well as the environment - helped. By Alexander Lass Galerie Michaela Stock 1040 Vienna, Schleifmühlgasse 18, until 27.02.10 http://www.galerie-stock.net

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