Sabine Dehnel »anderswo—elsewhere«
September 15 - November 17, 2007
Leipzig Gallery Weekend:
Saturday, September 15 from 11am to 9pm
Sunday, September 15 from 11am to 6pm
The Filipp Rosbach Galerie Gallery is pleased to present »anderswo—elsewhere« with painting and photography by Sabine Dehnel. This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery and in Leipzig.
Any likeness is fictitious. For Sabine Dehnel, the wish to be a painter, body and soul, never meant loosing her head. Her work is conceptual and includes photography and installations. Even most recent art history shows how photography and painting compete. Their respective possibilities are not only played-out, but mutually followed and pursued. From the start of photo-technique practices, painters, more or less, admittedly and strategically avail themselves this material, particularly in gathering images. Sabine Dehnel takes a look back. Painting and photography stand side by side as equals, but prove to be, a kind of mimicry, dependent on each other. Five years ago, during her studies in Los Angeles, Sabine Dehnel intensified her work with photography and began again, to transmit her paintings to photos.
For her this means, foremost, installation, rather than reproduction. Does she want to return painting to reality? Or is this perhaps a theatrical act? The artist builds scenery extravagantly, looks for clothes which resemble the painted ones or she crafts them in an artistic application. These textiles are more than costumes; they can be seen as indicators. This fabric leaves it possible to pull the painting off the surface into reality, as it were, to turn on and back into itself. Sabine Dehnel stores her props carefully in a requisite pool.
The photos which result from such stagings look like painting indeed, however, are not to be mistaken as such. One can regard it as a confusing game, an instructional show or comedy. It is all of these. In this manner, the artist can follow the relationship to reality in the presentations, and, above all, clarify medium and perspective in the process of picture making.
Even in the early years of photography-history, there are attempts to adjust painting through the detours "of living pictures" and make blueprints. If Sabine Dehnel urges photography to imitate painting today, she does so knowingly inspiring the paradoxical reverse. She puts herself in the position to probe the artistic process of production and reception and shifts our view from certain dependencies and mechanisms, whose validity and power is not lost in new media, and not limited to the field of art.
// By Sigrun Hellmich / Excerpt / Translation by Rachel Kaplan
Sabine Dehnel [*1971 in Ludwigshafen] works and lives in Berlin.
Studied fine arts and philosophy from 1993 to 1999 at the Akademie für Bildende Künste at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Meisterschülerin from 1999 to 2000. 2000/01 MFA Program, Otis College of Fine Arts and Design, Los Angeles. Numerous awards and grants since 1998.
Sabine Dehnel Exhibition Schedule
– 30.09.2007 | Museum im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, »Neue Malerei aus dem Museum Frieder
Burda« [group] with Tim Eitel, Anja Gangster, Eberhard Havekost, Anton Henning, Alex Katz,
Karin Kneffel, Dieter Krieg, Susanne Kühn, Heribert C. Ottersbach, Gerhard Richter a. m.
07.09.2007 – 12.11. 2007 | Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM [USA], »elsewhere«
20.11.2007 – 03.02.2008 | Museum Kulturspeicher Würzburg, »Liebe. Love - Bilder von Paaren« [group]
with Sophie Calle, Daniela Comani, Otto Dix, Nan Goldin, Richard Lindner, Boris Mikhailov,
Anna Oppermann, C. O. Paeffgen, Rosemarie Trockel, a. m.
02.02.2008 – 22.03.2008 | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris [F], »ailleur«
Sabine Dehnel Publication
Sabine Dehnel »anderswo elsewhere. Painting and Photography 2002-2006« Hatje Cantz Verlag 2006. German/English 128 pp., 121 color ills. Texts by Barbara Auer, Klaus Gallwitz, Bettina Högner, Marc Peschke, Luminita Sabau. ISBN-10: 3-7757-1830-3. € 30,-
We look forward to your visit! Josef Filipp, Michaela Rosbach und Jörg Rosbach. The gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm and by appointment [mobile: +49 [0] 172. 373 11 10].