Constanze Vogt – blau

IIn the form of drawings and objects, Constanze Vogt (she/her) renders time tangible. The artist manipulates straight lines and rectangular surfaces until they are transformed into three-dimensional forms.

Lines are laid over lines. She selects the paper and the length of the strips and places them next to each other as if they were the lines of a text. These slowly overlap, becoming paths or ribbons, textures that entwine and entangle. The lines can be read and, at the same time, the shape can be perceived at a glance. The drawing is a sign of its process of creation and, in its contorted and self-contained form, no longer reveals a beginning or an end.

Cotton threads stretched on wooden or metal bands pick up the lines of the drawings and translate them into three-dimensional space. The life-size objects live from their vantage points and their free movement. In order to capture the lines, the viewer's body begins to move with the work. Due to their transparency, the objects become drawings in space and at the same time seem to incorporate their surroundings.

The straight line, a product of European culture, encounters natural-looking forms. The artist finds them when she is out walking and picks up dried leaves. She observes how the fabric of a coat falls, how flowers peel from buds or hands clasp.

Every piece demands its own time. The drawing, which can be graspable at a glance even from a distance, and its circular legibility invite us to perceive temporality differently and to experience it physically - away from the linearity upon which each individual work is based.

Opening

Thursday, September 5th, 2024, 7 – 11 pm

Exhibition

September 6th until October 26st, 2024