Ruth van Beek – White Dog, Blue Ribbon
White Dog, Blue Ribbon
Ruth van Beek
23.06.2017 – 08.07.2017
Vernissage : Friday 23 June 2017 at 19h
The exhibition “White Dog, Blue Ribbon” by the Dutch artist Ruth van Beek consists of a variety of poses, a meeting place for figures facing one another, a salon which one enters and where, visibly, a conversation is taking place.
Ruth van Beek shows individuals and the relationship among them. Midway between genre painting, group portrait and installation, this informal circle is an invitation to share discreetly in what we recognize as an interview, discussion, negotiation or sacra conversazione to which they are listening so attentively. A composition in which all the fragments (whether abstract or figurative) of collected images (collages, paintings, drawings, photographs, furnishings, etc) influence the space they occupy.
In the basement gallery, Ruth van Beek turns the space into a metaphor for the unconscious. A place between life and death, wakefulness and sleep. Around the central figure of the sleeping rock with feet, shaped like a body, statues from ancient history, animals, plants, rocks, dolls and masks appear to be attending a ceremonial gathering. A large-format storytelling map, made from archive images of motionless objects.
Exhibition, opening times:
23.06.2017 – 08.07.2017, Wednesday–Saturday
2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Âme Nue,
Schaarsteinwegsbrücke 2,
20459 Hamburg, Germany.
www.ame-nue.com
