Expansion Zigzag
Ernst Caramelle
2/5 series
Captures éditions
English
Softcover
1 A2 folded format sheet
Housed in a vanilla envelope with other publications from the 2/5 series (2020–2022)
420 x 594 mm
2021
ISBN 9782491549176
The use of the same motif – the face, the house and the zigzag employed on different scales, in relation to architecture and for works on paper – is a constant in Ernst Caramelle’s work (born in Hall, 1952). The zigzag motif appeared early, in exhibitions at the Buades Gallery in Madrid and at Nächst St. Stephan in Vienna. The zigzag was central to the series “sun-pieces”, a work that plays on duality and positive and negative shapes, comprising the cutting of masses of tinted papers whose physical substance has been impacted by the effects of the sun. Zigzag Expansion made for edition 2/5, is one variation of this principle. Folded into A4.
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About the Artist
Born 1952 in Hall in Tyrol, Austria, lives and works in Frankfurt/Main and New York City. Ernst Caramelle studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Arts) Vienna. In 1974, he was a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. He was a guest professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main 1981–1983, followed by the University of Applied Arts Vienna 1986–1990. In 1994 he became a professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildendenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) in Karlsruhe, where he has been rector from 2012 to 2018. What is reality, how can we believe what we see, and what are the conditions of art have been recurring questions in Ernst Caramelle’s work since he first began exhibiting in the mid-seventies. “Art is a fake” has been his creed ever since. In his conceptually based oeuvre that spans many different media – from drawing, painting, photography, video, and wall painting, to virtually immaterial works with sunlight on paper – he explores the status of original and fake, production and reproduction, the perception of art and the context of art reception. Caramelle’s paintings – whether on gesso ground, wood, cardboard, or directly on a wall’s surface – exhibit views refracted by different perspectives. Colored, sometimes washed-out shapes formally refer to spatial and geometrical elements, to architectural found footage. In this system of doubles, mirror images, and juxtapositions, the wall itself is transformed into a picture. One spatial illusion follows another, while perspective views mutate into physiognomies. Beholding is reversed into being beheld, and what is visible questions its own status.
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About the Publisher
2/5 falls into the artists’ books series published by Captures. Four guests per year work within the same space of an open A2 format sheet (420 x 594mm), giving rise to various proposals depending on how the sheet is folded.
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