Joëlle Tuerlinckx. Geologie einer Arbiet: New and Old Paper-Assemblage in einer Kurzen Orangen Retrospective, Galerie Christian Nagel-Berlin,Weydinger

Joëlle Tuerlinckx. Geologie einer Arbiet: New and Old Paper-Assemblage in einer Kurzen Orangen Retrospective, Galerie Christian Nagel-Berlin,Weydinger Str 2/4 10178 Berlin. DE, by craniv boyd.

 

 

Dry humorous right brain cerebral current art is what Belgian artist, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, exposes in her short Orange Retrospective at Galerie Christian Nagel-Berlin. The exhibition takes place, in a spacious store front gallery space, that can accommodate larger artworks, but is still not quite big enough to house unwieldy installations with massive components. The space of, Galerie Christian Nagel-Berlin, and the Orange Retrospective, by Joëlle Tuerlinckx, are a comfortable match, for she offers yet one more installation as gesamtkunstwerk via post-modern Belgian means not dissimilar to, artist and fellow countryman, M. Broodthaers, and like the art of Broodthaer's, the current instance of Tuerlinckx's art work is not adversely affected by mid sized modernist white cube shoebox display settings.

 

Fluorescent Orange wallpaper, pinned with thin headless nails, covers the gallery walls. If you hunt, this particular orange color, would be called safety or blaze Orange, approaching the wall paper closely but with an appropriate measure of distance, your eyes can pick up on the Ben-day half tone dot pattern, used to produce the look of a brick wall painted white, printed on each section of the orange paper. This is an Impressive optical feat, considering that the paper is orange, the ink printed on it black, yet the photographic source, because of lighting when the picture was taken, calls to mind, a white wall.

 

On top of the brick wall: wallpaper, metal panels hung floating from the wall has photo reproductions of book pages. The dry fare of minerals and natural science, small magnets joyously hold small paper objects affixed to the metal surfaces. There is minor anarchic frisson that occurs when seeing, overblown science textbook, juxtaposed with odd, functionless paper artworks, small process of stunning in that viewers don't know if they may be here to see the origami, or the textbook art work, based on a different disciplines text book.

 

Confusions ensue further when stepping back and viewing the card-board boxes, painted solid colors on the inside, empty paint canisters, with solid colors that match the cardboard box innards, are wall mounted high above head level, lending an: "if paint buckets can fly than, anything can happen now" atmosphere. Yes per chance, visually tucked away, the metal limb that holds the at first glance, floating paint bucket, is when seen reassuring, but nevertheless, total art works that parley in playful dry references, to dryer harder sciences, are flat visual puns.

 

An archive of yet one more impersonal universe, an almost in-utter able image based narrative, as artwork, if you like structuralism and art work that needs an essay to argue that it is this kind of art, than Geologie einer Arbiet: New and Old Paper-Assemblage in einer Kurzen Orangen Retrospective, is your cup of Belgian tea. By craniv boyd.