Discovering New Collage at Frieze New York 2015
The annual Frieze Art Fair New York took place 14-17 May 2015 at Randall’s Island, Manhattan. “Walking through Frieze New York last May, I immediately noticed a new kind of ‘sculptural collage’, works that leapt off the wall, protruding from it, leaning against it or disregarding it entirely to become a freestanding structure,” writes Claudia Eve Beauchesne. “Upon closer inspection, some pieces fell flat, resorting to the same modernist tactics as conventional 2D collage, while others revealed a conceptual dimension that complicated and enhanced them.” In Kolaj #13, Beauchesne reports on the work of the British artist Philomene Pirecki and the Estonian-born, Amsterdam-based Katja Novitskova
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Meaning still emerges from the juxtaposition, superimposition, overlap and layering of fragments, but it also comes from the work’s ability to reach backward, forward and sideways simultaneously.
Katja Novitskova is represented by Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler in Berlin. Philomene Pirecki is represented by Supplement in London.
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Image (top):
Mars Potential (marabou)
by Katja Novitskova
70.75”x47.25”x17.75”
digital print on two layers of aluminium, cutout display
2015
Edition 1 of 1 (and 1 A/P)
Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Image (centre):
Desire as a Form of Energy (Grey Text Painting 54, framed by Grey Text Painting 10)
by Philomene Pirecki
74.8”x31.5”x11.8”
UV ink printed onto glass, Chromalux print, Duraclear print, spare Duraclear, magnets, reconfigured works on paper
2015
Image courtesy of Supplement, London