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Frauke Dannert: Collage
Artists who create collages appropriate existing images and assemble them in new ways without being bound to a style or a medium. Frauke Dannert (b. Herdecke, 1979; lives and works in Cologne and Düsseldorf) has dedicated herself to this technique. Over the course of a decade, she has built a considerable repertoire of forms she now variously applies in works on paper, wall paintings, projections, films, and photographs. Architecture is the basic material and subject of the collages in which she explores questions of perception as well as orientation and recollection. She dismantles structures to examine their sculptural potential. Drawing on a personal archive of found pictures and her own photographs, she selects jutties, spires, ribbon windows, or entire façades, makes multiple photocopies, and alters dimensions and proportions. Out of the resulting elements she then pieces together weightless structures with a futuristic air. Gunda Luyken, Jari Ortwig, and Eveline Suter contributed essays to Frauke Dannert’s first monograph.
120 pages, Hardcover
Published August 25, 2016
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September 5, 2018
Architectural montages layered as abstract/fragmented graphic form.
Notes:
P19:
Danner’s stuck-on elements are drawn from her own photographs or images from books, magazines or the internet, which are then xeroxed on a black and white photocopier. She consciously incorporates reductions in quality: lower resolution, or copier traces left on the images, are factors which help to estrange the original illustration and make it more ambiguous.
P19:
Max Ernst: “Ce n’est pas la colle qui fait le collage,”
It is not the glue that makes the collage.
Scissors are the key instrument of collage, even if the technique’s name derives from the French verb ‘coller’ to stick.
P20:
Hannah Hoch: “I want to demonstrate that small is also big and big is small... I would ideally like to show the world today as it appears to a bee, and tomorrow as it is seen by the moon”
P75:
Image: Echo, 2010. Carpet intarsia, exhibition view ‘To look is to labour’
Interior architecture of exhibition space, corner room of beam and carpet is subverted from flat surface as potential immersive collage.
P65/66:
Image: Superstructure, 2011. Carpet intarsia, overhead projection.
Architectural collage are projected on the interior architecture of gallery walls and incorporating the carpet with graphic linework (blue/gray/black)
P95
Image: Dragon, 2014. Paper collage on aluminum. 50 x 40cm.
Curved structures (bridges) merging/tangling together as deranged rollercoaster system. Ha!
Brutalist architecture; chopped up photocopied concrete structures looks great.
Some work has Bauhaus visual aesthetic/strategy.
The key here is the way she has applied her architectural collage and ‘collaged’ the installation at actual architectural spaces that wraps the context together.
Notes:
P19:
Danner’s stuck-on elements are drawn from her own photographs or images from books, magazines or the internet, which are then xeroxed on a black and white photocopier. She consciously incorporates reductions in quality: lower resolution, or copier traces left on the images, are factors which help to estrange the original illustration and make it more ambiguous.
P19:
Max Ernst: “Ce n’est pas la colle qui fait le collage,”
It is not the glue that makes the collage.
Scissors are the key instrument of collage, even if the technique’s name derives from the French verb ‘coller’ to stick.
P20:
Hannah Hoch: “I want to demonstrate that small is also big and big is small... I would ideally like to show the world today as it appears to a bee, and tomorrow as it is seen by the moon”
P75:
Image: Echo, 2010. Carpet intarsia, exhibition view ‘To look is to labour’
Interior architecture of exhibition space, corner room of beam and carpet is subverted from flat surface as potential immersive collage.
P65/66:
Image: Superstructure, 2011. Carpet intarsia, overhead projection.
Architectural collage are projected on the interior architecture of gallery walls and incorporating the carpet with graphic linework (blue/gray/black)
P95
Image: Dragon, 2014. Paper collage on aluminum. 50 x 40cm.
Curved structures (bridges) merging/tangling together as deranged rollercoaster system. Ha!
Brutalist architecture; chopped up photocopied concrete structures looks great.
Some work has Bauhaus visual aesthetic/strategy.
The key here is the way she has applied her architectural collage and ‘collaged’ the installation at actual architectural spaces that wraps the context together.
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