Neuzeit Grotesk at Gunia Nowik Gallery
“Neuzeit Grotesk” performs on the questions fueling the discussions at hip dinner events: Are we encountering a “vibe shift”? Are the youth of in the present day extra nihilistic than earlier than? Are the instances we live in actually that a lot worse than any others?
Over the course of three white-cube areas and a hall, curator Camila McHugh units up a dialog amongst a trio of artists pondering these points as they discover the “New Grotesque.” The present’s title refers back to the sans serif typeface created by Bauhaus lecturer Wilhelm Pischner in 1929, however right here it’s taken at face worth. This grotesque components into the tablet-size aluminum-framed canvases of Heike-Karin Föll, who displays on the presence of screens in our on a regular basis lives. Her work reference know-how, providing greater than a touch of the way it’s letting us down. Compositions just like the pointillism-charged horizontal data, 2020–22, break, blur, and tackle lives of their very own. In the meantime, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg creates retro-looking enigmatic objects, from the Plexiglas sconce of THE BIG EXCUSE (Fri.), 2022, to the hilarious rescaled-sheet-metal bows of Altweiberknoten I and II, each 2022. The youngest artist in present, painter Julie Dubsky, restricted her palette to purple and blue in line with the useful resource shortage afflicting the world. In a trio of practically an identical work (4Actors, 4Actor, and 4Acto, all 2022), the painter performs with the concept of repetition. Seen from the again, the bare, genderless determine in every doesn’t a lot gaze into the blue void as change into itself an empty canvas: the aspiration of any skilled actor.
— Agata Pyzik
