EXHIBITIONS
researchPosted by Lukas Birk Thursday, March 01 2007 17:47:12I went to the
Serpentine Gallery to see
Karen Kilimniks exhibtion and installation
that's what tehy wrote:America artist Karen Kilimnik’s paintings recall the work of painters from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. Her mise-en-scene approach is inspired by specific rooms in stately homes, horse riding, Tudor architecture and the occult.
The Karen Kilimnik exhibition features over 50 of the artist’s paintings and drawings from the past decade, as well as recent installations staged according to her fascination with historical allegories.
The artist has said of her work: Being so inspired by fairy tales, mysteries, books, TV shows and ballets etc. I like to make up characters myself as if I’m a playwright and these are characters and scenes I invented or observed… So I’ll see a picture of someone or something in a photo or a painting and cast them in my so-called play as a character I’ve made up or sometimes borrowed.
Kilimnik’s works mix contemporary and historical references; her painting entitled Prince Desirée on a break from Sleeping Beauty Out at Petrossian's for dinner, 1998, is a portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio as the star of Sleeping Beauty. The artist cites artists such as the British painters Henry Raeburn and George Stubbs as well as French rococo painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry as significant influences. Kilimnik's paintings are small, intimate works that draw on the artist’s interests in everything from mysteries and fairy tales, opera and ballet, to cultural icons and art history.
- that what I write :
They painting they advertise the exhibition with (see top) would attract me - it got atmosphere - a presensts.. somehting is within this image that I like.
maybe the disintressted of the person...
but the actual imagery there and the way the architactual installations were presented are ...... not my style at all.
but it is not about the style of paiting. that is not what I am looking for but the way they arranged things. Especially the entrance room. it seamed such a pretend thing... nothing natural.. not a grown Idea but seperate piece put together and contextualized it with words that are nothing but void.. to be honest that is what I felt void... I didn't feel any of the given explanations... it didn't remind me of a past centuray.... it reminded me of misinvested money in art projects that do not reflect any extantion of anything ... nothing I havent seen heard or lived before.. nothing was there to see for me... sounds awful... I guess it was..... the only plus .. I liked the design of two rooms... but rather as a living room or studio.. thats it basta... another dissapointment at the serpentine gallery..... why not do somehting like this out side!!! spontanious... creat a balley of lost centuries and styles on the street!!! instead of this stiff... approach of .. I dont know... ok this is not a very academic critisism... but it shouldn't be... it's a feeling... my reaction and that is something real... at least this exhibtion triggered something real... and that's my dislike..... amen
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