Come visit our studios!
Saturday and Sunday, September 26th and 27th 2009, 1-8pm
Closing Reception: Sunday September 27th 2009, 5-8pm
During the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival
Triangle Arts Association is pleased to present our 2009 artists in residence: Michelle Rosenberg, Ralf Ziervogel, and Florian and Michael Quisterbert.
(Ralf Ziervogel)
Ralf Ziervogel’s work speaks for him as a persuasive innovator in the field of drawing. He broadened its dimensions and thereby created serial as well as ornamental possibilities.His designs display a gruesomely pretty frankness and brutality – a Comedie humaine in the age of cyber space. This suggests that the artist also succeeded in marrying classical technology with contents that range from splatter to comic. In his work, bodies become cleft creatures that on the one hand reflect all imaginable metamorphoses of human being and on the other hand, acting in a hermetic system, encounter its limits. Richard Roarty demands the continuation of the occidental discourse with regard to the abdication of traditional problems, Ralf Ziervogel is pulling out all stops and brings forward a “pragmatic” extension.
(Michelle Rosenberg)
Michelle Rosenberg creates site specific and participatory installations that invite people to engage with their aural environment. Her body of work re-contextualizes familiar objects and actions, while weaving in discussions about public space, spectacle, technology, humor and the body. While in residence at Triangle Art Association, Michelle has been carving air channels into architectural surfaces and turning them into whistles. During open studios, visitors will be invited to take a straw and blow into various architectural mock-ups and remains. The resulting sound will be a testament to the movement of breath through the object and the space. These Surface Whistles allow participants to navigate the material elements of the built environment through an intimate exchange of air and sound.
(Florian and Michael Quistrebert)
The team of two brothers turns inward and uses the urban landscape as inspiration to evoke dark, hallucinatory states of mind. The team’s visit to New York from their former residence in Nantes, France has inspired a series of black canvases that make reference to the Gothic architectural elements scattered throughout the city. The canvases are heavily built-up gloss and matte tactile surfaces in which spiral tower designs are deeply embedded. In an earlier series of black ink drawings and watercolor sketches, the team created imaginative dark psychedelic landscapes, empty of humans but filled with allusions to prior cataclysmic events of astrological consequences. Especially effective from this series were those that depicted the remnants of barley visible cities highlighted against a cosmic sky teaming with activity. These works on paper call to mind the late 19th Symbolist work of Odilon Redon and to a lesser extent Alfred Kubin.
