four walls, shared beds

Anita Semadeni, Cyril Tyrone Hübcher, Matthias Holznagel, Rafael Jörger

Presented by Im Grafenhag

May 06 — 30, 2021

Photography by Brigham Baker

In a medley of potential relationships to home and house, an associative Derivé of the private appears. Starting from – so I assume – a shared bed, framed by an old lamp  origins are unknown, guided from the seemingly most public room, through a signifier of privacy: a curtain. At this point we have already been introduced to all the ghostly occupants of the home, however, we will only find out as much later.

 

Like the inversion of public and private in the architectural living room, the perspectives are reversed as well. Starting from an incredibly detailed view with tiny characters and intimate insights, we maneuver through mementos of relationships with the home and stumble over artifacts of being on the move until we are confronted with models of places never known. Truly, a shared psychogeographic experience uncannily oscillating between private and public, big picture and detail, intimate and unidentifiable.
An unseizable yet noticeably precise mesh of critique, reproduction, endorsement and warfare evolve which are oh so confusing and unsettling but still so familiar, warm and positively embracing.

 

Shabby 3D-printed chairs meet loving melancholia, technopunk and the materials of the literal homemaker look each other dead in the eye with absolutely no fear while the accelerationist dystopia of cardboard delivery boxes from Amazon Prime recreate the architecture of a blurry European past.

 

Yes, the accelerationist dystopia meets a Derivé of the private. Within our own four walls. In our shared beds.

— Clifford E. Bruckmann

From left to right: Anita Semadeni When Bessie dreams. Bessie die Kuh., 2021 dyed silk and hazelwood 138 x 230 cm Anita Semadeni, Cyril Tyrone Hübscher, Matthias Holznagel, Rafael Jörger shared bed, 2021
dimensions variable Anita Semadeni
two women taking a bath #2, 2020
acrylic, encaustic and photograph on cotton 55 x 40 cm
Anita Semadeni When Bessie dreams. Bessie die Kuh., 2021 dyed silk and hazelwood 138 x 230 cm
Anita Semadeni, Cyril Tyrone Hübscher, Matthias Holznagel, Rafael Jörger shared bed, 2021
dimensions variable
From left to right: Matthias Holznagel Vorhänger, 2020 Oil on canvas
24 x 30 cm Cyril Tyrone Hübscher ballenberg-scenario I, 2021 mixed media
19 x 20 x 29 cm Cyril Tyrone Hübscher ballenberg-scenario II, 2021 mixed media
16 x 41 x 23.5 cm Matthias Holznagel Gebüsch, 2020
oil on canvas
19 x 23 cm Cyril Tyrone Hübscher ballenberg-scenario III, 2021 mixed media
20 x 17 x 20.5 cm Matthias Holznagel & Rafael Jörger
fluid ideas (All the things you said running through my head), 2021
red shopping bag, schnur, glaced ceramik, metal butterfly, oil, fruitbox, cans, found objects, knive, pappmachee, waxed wire object
dimensions variable
Cyril Tyrone Hübscher ballenberg-scenario I, 2021 mixed media
19 x 20 x 29 cm
Matthias Holznagel & Rafael Jörger
fluid ideas (inventar), 2021
red/black shopping bag, wooden box, tubberware, mirror butterfly, griff, needles, pink pearlchain dimensions variable
From left to right: Matthias Holznagel & Rafael Jörger
fluid ideas (inventar), 2021
red/black shopping bag, wooden box, tubberware, mirror butterfly, griff, needles, pink pearlchain dimensions variable Rafael Jörger
Double tap to pop the bubble, 2020
oil, oilstick, acryl, pencil on cotton canvas 70 x 45 cm
From left to right: Matthias Holznagel Beisitzer, 2021
oil & crayon on canvas 24 x 30 cm Matthias Holznagel Verschwundene Beisitzer, 2021 oil & guache on canvas 24 x 30 cm
Cyril Tyrone Hübscher apartamento III, 2021 mixed media
15.5 x 23 x 21 cm
Matthias Holznagel & Rafael Jörger
fluid ideas (Rafael & Matthias are getting sick), 2021 transparent trashbag, Rosemaries, chalkstick, schnurr
dimensions variable
Anita Semadeni
Milch 2, 2021
acrylic, photograph and resin on cotton 110 x 170 cm Anita Semadeni
Milch 1, 2021
acrylic, colour pencil, latex and resin on cotton 110 x 170 cm
Anita Semadeni
la stria. die hexe. the witch. #2, 2020 encaustic on cotton
30 x 30 cm
Cyril Tyrone Hübscher ballenberg-scenario IV, 2021 mixed media
39 x 40 x 44 cm
Cyril Tyrone Hübscher ballenberg-scenario IV, 2021 mixed media
39 x 40 x 44 cm
Cyril Tyrone Hübscher ballenberg-scenario IV, 2021 mixed media
39 x 40 x 44 cm
From left to right: Anita Semadeni When Bessie dreams. Bessie die Kuh., 2021 dyed silk and hazelwood 138 x 230 cm Matthias Holznagel
seek, 2021
oil & watercolour on canvas 24 x 30 cm Rafael Jörger
Relief/A forgotten notice behind the mirror, 2021 rabbit glue, papercut, found notice on cotton canvas
80 x 42 cm Rafael Jörger
Relief/Arch/Turbine, 2021
rabbit glue, papercut, oil, pencil on cotton canvas 80 x 42 cm
Matthias Holznagel
seek, 2021
oil & watercolour on canvas 24 x 30 cm
From left to right: Cyril Tyrone Hübscher apartamento II, 2021 mixed media
16 x 21 x 24 cm Anita Semadeni When Bessie dreams. Bessie die Kuh., 2021 dyed silk and hazelwood 138 x 230 cm