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RoundTrip
13.05.2005 - 30.10.2005
Exhibition | PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE | KUNST
The Pinakothek der Moderne will exhibit a monumental wall drawing by the American artist Christine Hiebert. Her work is being presented as a first solo museum exhibition in Europe. Large-scale wall pieces have been a central theme of the artist since 2000. Her drawing tool of choice is bright blue adhesive tape - a common material used by housepainters in the U.S.
Christine Hiebert came to the Pinakothek der Moderne in April 2005. Her destination: the second floor, a 25-meter circular space, bounded by a transparent glass ceiling and white walls more than 5 meters high. For the artist, the emptiness of the white walls and the undefined space was initially as barren as fallow land. She explored the space. She observed the movement of light and shadow; she analyzed the various perspectives and intersections of the museum's architecture - and finally set her first mark on the white wall, in the form of a blue line.
This line was the starting point of the world Christine Hiebert developed. Each subsequent line was laid down in response to the logic of the previous ones. And in the manner with which she built up the space - running, observing, waiting, with highly sensitive feelers, so to speak - her drawn lines manifest her encounter with the space. The result leads us beyond the architecture, yet back into it in a continuous »round trip«. From almost nothing she has created a substantial force in this space. The drawing opens it up, vitalizes it and unleashes a presence that seems to have lain dormant in the previously barren rotunda. Hunters set their dogs free in unknown forests in order to find their way; here the artist lets her blue line loose. For Christine Hiebert the words of Hilde Domin ring true: »I set my foot in the air, and it lifts me up«. |
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