Opening on Friday, September 18 at 4:30 p.m., simultaneously with the opening of ARE.
The Avant-Garde, the frontrunners, the ones who stand out above the crowd, these are the artists exhibiting in EXPO 4. Recently graduated from AKI or the Academy of Münster, these young artists are given carte blanche in the tower room. There, they experiment with form and disciplines, show individuality, and dare to approach things from a fresh, unconventional angle.
About the work
Mona: “About my graduation work I wrote: When everything you do matters, and every time you go grocery shopping it could mean the death of someone dear to you, something changes in the way you move through the world. When someone hurts you, something changes in the way you move through the world.
The installation ‘Who am I after this? Who am I now? Suzy Daal’ explores the paradox of life in this period, my life in particular. This work creates a sense of safety in a painterly way. A sense I always long for, but now need more than ever. On the other hand, I seek the landscape in what I see, my gaze fixed on the distant horizon. I want to leave, but at the same time I don’t. I look out the window and feel trapped. I want freedom, but only as long as I don’t lose my ‘home’ because of it. I struggle with the fact that things are transient, yet I also struggle with constancy.
My graduation work takes you into the discomfort of personal transformation. It is a self-portrait, it is confrontational, and it is the first step. ‘Suzy Daal’ is a play on words ‘suicidal’ and ‘Suzy Daal’. It is raw, personal, and a temporary self-emancipation from that feeling.
This exhibition is both a continuation of that described process and a new beginning a new process, a new play. Creating an exhibition is a second creative process after the original act of making. For this exhibition, I use part of my graduation work as well as new pieces, combining them in such a way that the work enters into a new dialogue.”
About Shari Mona Cinzia
Shari Mona Cinzia graduated this year from AKI. She paints and creates installations, sometimes with her own paintings and sometimes by combining everyday objects in such a way that you start to wonder what is real and what is an intervention in reality. Mona often takes herself and her place in the world as the starting point for her work. Universal matters thus become personal and take on another layer of meaning for the viewer.