Sinta Werner
Sabato 23 Agosto 2008NETTIE HORN is pleased to present Grey Areas, the first UK solo show of German artist Sinta Werner.
The exhibition will feature a large-scale in-situ installation as well as several smaller 3-D works and collages.
Werner’s elaborately constructed stage, within the main gallery, will structurally and optically disrupt the space by the careful creation of two illusory mirrors, both of which go on to reveal a virtual space behind their apparent presence. Werner’s architectonic installations are developed from different approaches in painting and in particular her aim to extend its very notion.
Her interest lies in the in-between state between picture and space through principles taken from the theatrical stage. In that context she engages with the tradition of illusionistic painting and Alberti’s metaphor of the visual pyramid.
Playing essentially with the architectural aspects of her surroundings, her works deconstruct and fragment the space - creating not merely optical illusions but even elaborate fictitious environments through which the viewer’s vision is deceived. Merging the genres of painting, sculpture, installation and architecture, Werner‘s practice deals with the concept of one-point-perspective – creating a unique viewing point from which the space appears flat and pictorial.
