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2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

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Dépendance2/1/1dépendanceMichael CalliesAyelet Yanai4 Rue du Marché aux PorcsBE-1000 BrusselsT +32 2 217 74 00M +32 4845 06 899<strong>in</strong>fo@dependance.bewww.dependance.beShown at <strong>LISTE</strong>:Richard Aldrich,1975, USMichaela Eichwald, 1967, DENora Schultz, 1975, DELucie Stahl, 1977, DEOther Artists of the Gallery:Thomas Bayrle, DEMerl<strong>in</strong> Carpenter, UKJana Euler, DEChristian Flamm, DEManuel Gnam, DEThilo He<strong>in</strong>zmann, DEKarl Holmqvist, SESergej Jensen, DKMichael Krebber, DEL<strong>in</strong>der, UKMichaela Meise, DEHenrik Olesen, DKBenjam<strong>in</strong> Saurer, DEHanna Schwarz, DEAndreas Slom<strong>in</strong>ski, DEJosef Strau, DEOscar Tuazon, USHaegue Yang, KRMichaela EichwaldHorsti Schmandhoff,2012Wood-glue, acrylic,oil, lacquer on l<strong>in</strong>e195 × 125 cm /76.8 × 49.2 <strong>in</strong>74 / 75A strange collection of objects andmaterials are embedded with MichaelaEichwald’s brilliant, surreal pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs andsculptures. Cement, wood preserver andwax are sloshed onto canvases along withsmaller pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs or book like appendages.Co<strong>in</strong>s, p<strong>in</strong>s pebbles, fish<strong>in</strong>g tackle andhalf a boiled egg are among the small objectsdropped <strong>in</strong>to res<strong>in</strong>-filled rubber gloves,plastic bags or bottles, becom<strong>in</strong>g fixedfor perpetuity <strong>in</strong> the piss colored sticky clodsthat crown her sculptures.It’s the casual accidents and ephemeralm<strong>in</strong>utiae of our world – the sta<strong>in</strong>s and thescraps – that assume focus <strong>in</strong> Eichwald’scompositions. With titles such as ‘Sehnsuchtnacho Abstraktion’, ‘Antu-fun und denbeg<strong>in</strong>n des endlichen Lebens (Desire forAbstraction, Anti-fun and the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>gof F<strong>in</strong>ite Life, 2011)’ or the more e<strong>art</strong>hly‘MILF’, Eichwald’s work has as much humoras beauty.As an <strong>art</strong>ist and a writer, Eichwald was aprotagonist of the Cologne <strong>art</strong> scenedur<strong>in</strong>g the 1990s before she moved to Berl<strong>in</strong>,where she currently lives and works.(Future Greats 2012: Michaela Eichwald,Selected by Michelle Cotton, Art Review,Issue.66, March <strong>2013</strong>)Michaela Eichwald was awarded the2012 Prix Lafayette followed by a soloexhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris,<strong>2013</strong>. Additional upcom<strong>in</strong>g exhibitions<strong>in</strong>clude Reena Spaul<strong>in</strong>gs, New York andMuseum of Gegenw<strong>art</strong>skunst, <strong>Basel</strong>.

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