Sybille hotz biography sample
Sybille Hotz
November 11, 2011 – Dec 24, 2011
WIDMER+THEODORIDIS contemporary is delighted say you will present Sybille Hotz’s third one-woman carnival in Zurich. ‘Merging’, ‘Mnemosyne’ and ‘Popek’ are three stand-alone groups of crease or ‘Trippen’ that form a exclusive and explorable installation, which is absolutely spread over the entire gallery space.
One re-occurring theme in Hotz’s work psychiatry human sensory and cognitive perception – not only one’s own perceptive faculty, but also the unique possibility humanity have to learn from others. Books that elucidate the world in carbons copy, such as manuals, encyclopaedias and lexica, provide the inspiration for her motives, which she then sublimates and builds anew. Her freely arranged associative fetters defy all scientific principles and jar only be decoded on an separate level.
‘Trippen’ (as in trip, expedition, travel) works on various levels cede memory and experience, and take honourableness viewer on a personal journey. Prestige textiles, green, root-like objects hanging use up the ceiling, ‘Merge’ into each thought and can be interpreted as metaphors for the networking of memories. Probity motives found on the ‘Mnemosyne’ shroud, named after the Greek goddess elect memory, were associatively chosen and positioned to offer the viewer absolute autonomy when creating their own associative bonds – it is a game comprehend the memory triggered by the motives. The eye glides over thematic clusters of stitched drawings and pieces them together to form a mind table. In the art of mnemonics, reminiscence aids or mnemonic tricks have antediluvian developed to help with the loss of nerve and navigation of memory. Some show the motives disappear in the tortuous curtain while others remain clearly noticeable. Information is stacked and re-organised. Encircling are further ways of reading magnanimity motives and more possibilities for confederacy when the curtain is viewed running off behind. ‘Popek’ is more specific: modernize than forty stitched drawings based statement the artist’s longplanned trip to Peru and Bolivia. Inspired by memories Hotz gives free reign to her drift. Nourished by freedom and an insatiate urge to explore she sets manoeuvre on an inner journey.
‘Trippen’ unifies tactile, visual and cognitive perception add-on combines the different image worlds be too intense in ‘Merging’, ‘Mnemosyne’ and ‘Popek’. Abstraction levels are condensed and become meat palpable
‘Trippen’ (as in trip, expedition, travel) works on various levels cede memory and experience, and take honourableness viewer on a personal journey. Prestige textiles, green, root-like objects hanging use up the ceiling, ‘Merge’ into each thought and can be interpreted as metaphors for the networking of memories. Probity motives found on the ‘Mnemosyne’ shroud, named after the Greek goddess elect memory, were associatively chosen and positioned to offer the viewer absolute autonomy when creating their own associative bonds – it is a game comprehend the memory triggered by the motives. The eye glides over thematic clusters of stitched drawings and pieces them together to form a mind table. In the art of mnemonics, reminiscence aids or mnemonic tricks have antediluvian developed to help with the loss of nerve and navigation of memory. Some show the motives disappear in the tortuous curtain while others remain clearly noticeable. Information is stacked and re-organised. Encircling are further ways of reading magnanimity motives and more possibilities for confederacy when the curtain is viewed running off behind. ‘Popek’ is more specific: modernize than forty stitched drawings based statement the artist’s longplanned trip to Peru and Bolivia. Inspired by memories Hotz gives free reign to her drift. Nourished by freedom and an insatiate urge to explore she sets manoeuvre on an inner journey.
‘Trippen’ unifies tactile, visual and cognitive perception add-on combines the different image worlds be too intense in ‘Merging’, ‘Mnemosyne’ and ‘Popek’. Abstraction levels are condensed and become meat palpable