Acrylic, Oil, Chinese xuan paper mounted on canvas
96 x 96 cm
Modern Fine Art presents a group exhibition featuring women artists from our gallery, including Annina Roescheisen, Alessandra Meskita, Dai Ying, Danielle Frankenthal, Valerie Nagant, and Miru Kim. Working across photography, painting, and multimedia, these six artists share a preoccupation with what lies beneath the visible surface.
Alessandra Meskita's practice centers on a distinctive interplay of fabric cords and painted canvas. She creates pieces that are responsive to the viewer's angle of vision, the surrounding light, and the space they occupy. Each work begins with a painted canvas onto which cords are meticulously layered, producing soft compositions where color transforms and lines expand and contract. The result is more than a painting; it is a site-specific installation.
Danielle Frankenthal's works explore light in all its valences , as the specific light of color, as the most humanly perceivable form of pure energy that allows sight, and as a spiritual metaphor. She paints on transparent Acrylite® layers, mirroring the way adults see through the lens of cultural programming and lived experience. The resulting works are light-interactive, shifting with ambient light and the viewer's position.
Annina Roescheisen is a multimedia fine artist. Her work includes video, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, performance art, and documentary. Her works deal with spiritual and human investigations. Themes of the self & the other, the inner & outer world, the visible & the invisible, dream & reality and moreover shifts in perspective, impact of color and its symbolism as well as human emotions
Dai Ying works primarily with Chinese Rice paper and oil painting as her core medium. Her works on Rice paper and silk demonstrate her exceptional mastery over materials, skillfully integrating Eastern materials such as raw Rice paper, silk, and ink with Western vocabularies like acrylics, mineral pigments applied in more than twenty layers of accumulated dyeing and painting, and multimedia installations. This results in complex, layered visual structures. She adeptly harnesses the element of chance during the seepage of pigments, navigating the space between control and unpredictability to capture the dynamic fluctuations of subconscious emotions.
Miru Kim explores cities and landscapes as though they were a living organisms. She delves into the infrastructure of the city to explore unseen spaces as abandoned subway stations and underground sewer tunnels. Kim stands completely naked in these places and photographs her living flesh as a stark counterpoint to the decay around her. The artist uses the complexity of her surroundings as a symbol for the human body, while calling to mind ideas of isolation and the sense of artistic melancholy in the modern world.
Valérie Nagant is a Belgian photographer who focuses on capturing portraits of women. Her photographic defiance and vital spirit produce images that are unexpected, at times melancholic. They invite us into a moment shaped by lived experience.
