Ulrich Vogl She brings the rain

Exhibition
c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona
T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected]
http://www.adngaleria.com
Ulrich Vogl She brings the rain
Abdelkader Benchamma Signal faible
September 16th – November 5 th, 2011
Press release
ADN Galeria will open on September 16th the solo shows She brings the rain by Ulrich Vogl and Signal faible by
Abdelkader Benchamma.
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Defined as both experimental and conceptual, though paying attention to the importance of formal qualities, the
work of the German artist Ulrich Vogl involves different disciplines and methodologies. Vogl’s installations combine,
among others, fragments of nature, common objects and materials, lighting, technological devices. Vogl’s works
resist to the static condition of traditional sculpture thanks to slight,
slight almost imperceptible sounds or movements;
they are produced by technological instruments or by the spectator himself, whose displacement generates the
movement of suspended structures. Reflects and illuminations reinforce this sensation of instability. The artist’s
predilection for lights and shadows appears in the interplay between surfaces of water, aluminum sheets,
ingeniously displayed holes, fictitious windows. Each element contributes modestly to the creation of a subtly
animated display which invites spectators to a sustained contemplation.
“Making
Making of
of” is another key principle,
principle a constituent part of Vogl
Vogl’ss work.
work The artist shows all the elements used to
create his installation, including those that would normally remain unseen: speakers, lights, projectors, electric
cables come into view and show an efficient economy of means. The pieces, generally expressing a taste a bit
“retro”, are also different between them. Quite unexpectedly and in spite of their function, they show some
sculptural qualities. Indeed, the exhibition of functional objects doesn’t come from an intention to demythologize
them or ironize on the importance these machines have acquired in our life. It rather expresses a genuine interest
for the process of making, the poetry inherent to the fabrication of an (art)work.
Giving its title to the exhibition, the sound installation She brings the rain follows this line. Three speakers are placed
around a hanging mobile, composed by aluminum “clouds”. A spotlight illuminates them up while they balance,
following the rhythm of a song’s basses and lows. The music piece, composed by the German group CAN from the
1970s, evokes the dream of a distant summer. (...) In the dawn of the silvery day - Clouds seem to melt away (...)
She brings the rain, it feels like spring, Magic mushrooms out of dreams (...). Between a small model or the reduced
version of a concert stage, visions of lazy clouds in the sky or hallucinations provoked by psychotropes, She brings
the rain pproposes
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Exhibition
c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona
T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected]
http://www.adngaleria.com
Ulrich Vogl She brings the rain
Abdelkader Benchamma Signal faible
September 16th – November 5 th, 2011
Like Vogl’s other works, this composition has a “climatic” or “atmospheric” dimension. In a way, it refers to certain
ecology of art according to which every element, every matter holds a particular weight and function, articulated
with the whole. Refusing spectacular effects which source remains purposely hidden, Vogl’s work assume its
character of fragile, ephemeral construction. Its variations depend on the changes of light, shadows and reflections,
the speed of a small motor or the movement of visitors. While watching them, we can almost feel a breath, a
vibration or an atmospheric change.
Abdelkader Benchamma shares the same interest for subtle changes. From a practice conceived initially as a kind of
writing, with a particular emphasis on the drawing’s graphical properties and the flexibility of line, the French artist
formulated in the last years a more complex vision. His actual work sets visual and mental proposals as graphic
architectures developed in time and space, with their own rhythms, breaks and presences. They show an
“expanded” practice of drawing, opened to various sizes, techniques and unsuspected dimensions. With a real ability
to explore a multiplicity of supports,
supports Benchamma removes from drawing his academic weight,
weight bringing in fluidity
and unpredictability.
Benchamma’s second exhibition at ADN Galeria embraces drawing as a crossroad that enables connections and
contaminations between sculpture, installation, découpage, video animation and static images. The title “Signal
Faible” (weak signal) is taken from the field of economics: weak signals are some informal, almost imperceptible
data that anticipate a trend, a change in the market. Even if analysts try to detect such micro-information and
interpret it accurately,
accurately its authenticity and effectiveness remains subjected to contingent factors and not always
corresponds with prognostics. A weak signal does not produce certainties, nor truth: only speculations, hypotheses,
and hope for success.
The exhibited works have been created as parts of a whole composition, organic and in expansion. The artist
departs from ideas of unpredictability, of undetectable and speculated presence and the absence of distinction
between the real and the imaginary to propose a multiplicity of lines of reflection and reading. A series of drawings
of different sizes displays the artist
artist’ss favorite motives; they play ambiguously with, on the one hand, artificial
constructions and, on the other hand, natural, mineral and human elements. The line is meticulous, neat, and, at the
same time, it gets lost into complicated paths, dead ends, intersecting grounds and surfaces that lose their tangible
character. Most of the artist’s productions show rhizomatic elements, related objects, links... A wooden sculpture on
the pavement reproduces the pattern of a broken glass, like an open wound that seems to contaminate all the
surrounding elements. In dialogue with this piece, a video-animation displays real landscapes, in which the artist
introduces curious forms that slowly develop and disrupt the “normality” of the view, like alien shapes.
All the pieces meet around the idea of an expanded drawing that grows, bypasses the established boundaries and
forms to propose other visual experiences. Weak signals are, if you pay attention, the indexes of rich constellations
and systems that spread across the space and interact with their environment.
Exhibition
c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona
T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected]
http://www.adngaleria.com
Images
Ulrich Vogl, She brings the rain, 2011
Ulrich Vogl She brings the rain
Abdelkader Benchamma Signal faible
September 16th – November 5 th, 2011
Exhibition
c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona
T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected]
http://www.adngaleria.com
Images
Abdelkader Benchamma, 2011
Ulrich Vogl She brings the rain
Abdelkader Benchamma Signal faible
September 16th – November 5 th, 2011
Exhibition
c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona
T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected]
http://www.adngaleria.com
Ulrich Vogl She brings the rain
Abdelkader Benchamma Signal faible
September 16th – November 5 th, 2011
Biography
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Abdelkader Benchamma - 1975, lives and works in Montpellier (France)
Solo shows: 2011 Signe faible, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain; Bruits de fond, Frueshorge contemporary drawings, Berlin,
Germany; Dark Matter, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris, France 2010 La ligne de base du hasard, Galerie Chantiers Boite Noire,
Montpellier, France 2009 The apparent sensibility of things, Galerie Les Chantiers BoiteNoire, Montpellier, France; All this mass
are just pieces from the same part, Federico Luger Gallery , Milan, Italy 2008 Abdelkader Benchamma, Galerie Municipale de
Vitry, Vitry sur Seine, France; Même les choses invisibles se cachent. Part 3 - CAC – Istres, France; Même les choses invisibles
se cachent. Part 2 ADN Galería,
Galería Barcelona,
Barcelona Spain; Centre dd’art
art de Fréjus,
Fréjus Fréjus,
Fréjus France; Même les choses invisibles se
cachent. Part 1 - Centre Culturel R. L Luzzy, Cartagena, Spain 2007 Abdelkader Benchamma, Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Paris,
France; They think that once they are there, it will be finished, Galerie Agnès B, Hong Kong, China 2005 Incidents (Invisibles),
Project room, Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Paris, France; En fuite, L’endroit, Le Havre, France
Group shows (selection): 2011 The Future of a Promise, colateral event of the 54th Venice Biennial, Magazzini del Sale,
Venezia, Italy; SWAB, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain. 2010 Told / Untold/ Retold, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Quatar;
Art Contemporain et Bande Dessinée, Biennale d'Art Contemporain du Havre, Le Havre, France; Collaborators, Room Gallery,
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2009
Printemps de Septembre - Memory time, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Colomiers, L’espace des Arts, Colomiers, France;
Comicstrip, Musée de Sérignan, France; Salon du dessin d’aujourd’hui, Galerie Chantiers BoiteNoire, Montpellier, France 2008
SLICK París, ADN Galería, Paris, France; Contemporary drawings, LARM Gallery, Copenhagen, Sweden; ART BRUSSELS 08,
Paperless
Marks,
ADN
Galería,
Barcelona,
Spain;
ADN
Galería,
Brussels,
Belgium;
Narrations, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New-York, USA; 5 is only a number, ADN Galería, Barcelona, Spain. 2007 El papel del
dibujo, Galería Angeles Baños, Badajoz, Spain; Explositions, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France; Below the Light,
Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, Italy; Pas un jour sans une ligne, Collections St Cyprien, St Cyprien, France; Quasiment Royale,
Galerie des Beaux Arts, Montpellier, France; Drawing & Dreaming, ADN Galería, Barcelona, Spain; Tatort, Galerie des Beaux
Arts, Montpellier, France; Sarah Tritz Abdelkader Benchamma, Astérides, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France 2006 Spécial,
Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Paris, France; El Maghreb, Museo de Bellas Artes, Orleáns, France; L’amour de Soi, Galerie
Iconoscope, Montpellier, France; Le petit Noël, Le Commissariat/Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Nous nous sommes tant aimés,
Colecciones de St Cyprien, Saint Cyprien, France; Art Force, Galerie 10 m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Mind bomb, Galerie
Nuit d’encre, Paris, France; Portraits, Galerie Chantiers Boite Noire, Montpellier, France; Drawn, Xpace Gallery, Toronto, Canada;
Never trust a piece of wood, (animación) Galerie 10 m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. 2005 Don' t leave home, (animation),
Festival Contrechamp, Nantes, France; Do
Do-Ka
Ka, La Condition Publique, Roubaix, France; Salon de la Jeune Création, La
Bellevilloise, Paris, France.
Exhibition
c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona
T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected]
http://www.adngaleria.com
Ulrich Vogl She brings the rain
Abdelkader Benchamma Signal faible
September 16th – November 5 th, 2011
Biography
g p y
Ulrich Vogl- 1973, lives and works in Berlin (Germany)
Solo shows: 2011 Nordlicht, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway; She brings the rain, ADN Galería, Barcelona, Spain; Dunkle
Kammer, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. 2010 Welt, Galerie Opdhal, Berlin, Germany; Too Topics, Tint Gallery,
Salónica, Greece; In the Light, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. 2009 Watching the Star, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery,
Rovereto, Italy; Spiegelung, Erweiterung der Zeichnung, Sakamoto Contemporay, Berlin, Germany; Gipfelstürmer, Kevin
Kavanagh, Dublin, Ireland; Ulrich Vogl, Dunamaise Arts Center, Portlaoise, Ireland. 2008 Project Space, Irish Museum of
Modern Art,
Art Dublin,
Dublin Ireland; Ulrich Vogl, Benjamin Greber,
Greber Viafarini-in-residence,
Viafarini in residence Milan,
Milan Italy.
Italy 2007 Premiere, KraskaEckstein,
KraskaEckstein
Bremen, Germany. 2006 Goldgräber, Kevin Kanavagh, Dublin, Ireland.
Group shows (selection): 2011 Halleluhwah!, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; Märklinworld, Kunsthal Kade,
Amersfoort, The Netherlands; Halleluhwah!, Abtart, Stuttgart, Germany; Stipendiatenausstellung, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung,
Berlin, Germany; Based on real events, ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Drawing Walls, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto,
Italy; Gemini 6 Rendevous, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany; ARCO, ADN Galería, Madrid, Spain. 2010 ARTIUM Collection,
Artium, Vitoria, Spain; My Lonely Days are Gone, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany; TEXTURE, Galerie Metro, Berlin, Germany; The
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TapeModern Nr. 13, Tape Modern, Berlin, Germany 2009 Hoffnung, WSB Kontorhaus, Bremen, Germany; Birr, The Good
Hatchery, Offaly, Ireland; RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland. 2008 Ulrich Vogl, Sabine Fassi,
Alvar Beyer, Villa Grisebach Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Wohnen, sitzen, glauben, Kunst und Gewerbeverein Regensburg,
Regensburf, Germany; Better is Something you Build, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, Ireland. 2006 S/W, bell street project space,
Vienna, Austria; The Square root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Der Große Plan, Emser 126, Berlin, Germany;
Innenschau-Außenschau, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany. 2005 Was du Brauchst, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin,
Ireland; Micro Universe, The Lab gallery, New York, USA. 2004 Home Sweet Home, east Side Gallery, New York, USA; D-light,
Young German Art, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, USA; Licht, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany; Retro+1, SVA
Gallery, New York, USA.
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