January 2009, Filed under growing crystals, potassium alum crystals, scans, 2009, Maria Eisl
This week on the blog we listened Blue Monday by New Order; we visited Frances Stark At Galerie Buchholz in Köln; we discovered the blog I am a washing machine blog of the young photographer Ioana Hercberg; we passed by London to see Kai Althoff‘s show at Michael Werner Gallery; we suggested to assist to the presentation & reading by Gerry Bibby at Castillo Corrales.
Having turned into a heavily opinionated and high-strung personality, which seems to brood with anger that unloads fast, Kai Althoff wishes to create an antidote to this state of mind, by work that aesthetically calms the soul and seeks to feed a notion of shelter in an elegance reflecting the utilization of art in the homes of people with good taste and intellectual brilliance in times long passed. As soon as this notion seems to be satisfied, he starts to wrangle equally with the content and comfort and ultimate value of such work, which if successful, results in a void that defies words and emotions to be expressed without causing nausea. He seems to wish his art to embody the hefty balance between spirituality and adornment. But spirituality and adornment are no enemies, – rather both are to discover their natural unification within the feeble attempt to make life bearable.
Kai Althoff, born 1966 in Cologne, currently lives and works in New York.
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