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Camulodunum
2012
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
Installation view
With a background in philosophy Michaela Eichwald has been an artist, writer and protagonist of the Cologne art
scene since the 1990s. It is only relatively recently that she
has begun to venture regularly into gallery spaces with her
multi-disciplinary work. Her neo-bohemian bricolaged sculptures
and paintings suggest life beyond their simple means. The artist's
New York début show, 'Ergriffenes Dasein: Artist Writer
Mentalist?', included such reconfigured found objects as metal
Tchotchkes rescued from an incinerator. Other examples of her
sculptures are those made by pouring translucent resin into
bags filled with found objects: these can be anything from old
watches, coffee cream containers, a bunch of mussels, pills,
coins or hair elastic. Smeared with varnish and mounted on to
old vases-turned plinths, or even thermometers, her wit-filled
sculptures become part odd time capsule and part highly subjective
anti-monument. Her layered paintings include collage elements
such as books steeped in thick spills of enamel or texts by
other authors and artists. In Eichwald's works details of objects
are glimpsed through their suspension but nothing is ever explained
or clearly shown. As a finished product, the sculptures and
paintings (like the "Pofalla"-Paper-Fries shown at
After the Butcher, Berlin and Pro Choice, Vienna) continue to
make the visitor feel included in the process of 'handling material?.
It has been said that her works function like an index for the
connectivity between sensual and intellectual activity in general,
and that in this way it advocates subjective practice. |
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The Classical
2009
Vilma Gold, London
Installation view |
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The Classical
2009
Vilma Gold, London
Installation view |
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Installation view
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
2009
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Installation view
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
2009
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