D -AN EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
Oct 2, 2013 by
 this group pooled their choice artists, creating an impressive line-up of eighteen participants. With a nightly bar featuring artist-djs, the show was as much about defining a community as it was about mounting an exhibition. Although diverse in intent and execution, many of the pieces in the exhibition had a strong focus on process and transformation from one state into another. Ilja Karilampi’s iPhone screenshot printed on canvas captured a fleeting moment, transforming it into a physical object. Similarly, Aude Pariset’s photographic collages suspended in liquid-filled Perspex tubes presented a delicate balance of floating images, ever so slightly distorted through the plastic. Finally, Santiago Taccetti’s enamel-coated granite boulders seemed to glow from within, creating magical optical effects that were further enhanced by the mirror […]</p>
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Deeeee logo, 2013 |
Alongside the official Berlin Art Week fairs and blue-chip gallery openings, a team of young curators organized a group exhibition, titled D and held at the rental space ZweiDrei, that managed to stand out. Adriana Blidaru, Anna Frost, Ché Zara Blomfield, Elena Gilbert and James Michael Shaeffer, Jr. joined forces to put together a show that offered solid competition during a week full of events vying for the city’s attention. Each with experience curating independently and several having run exhibition spaces in the past (reference gallery, toves galleri and the composing rooms) this group pooled their choice artists, creating an impressive line-up of eighteen participants. With a nightly bar featuring artist-djs, the show was as much about defining a community as it was about mounting an exhibition.
Aude Pariset, Learning from Development, 2012
Set of laminated inkjet print strip tests,
wakame sea weed, art transport tube.
Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
| Although diverse in intent and execution, many of the pieces in the exhibition had a strong focus on process and transformation from one state into another. Ilja Karilampi’s iPhone screenshot printed on canvas captured a fleeting moment, transforming it into a physical object. Similarly, Aude Pariset’s photographic collages suspended in liquid-filled Perspex tubes presented a delicate balance of floating images, ever so slightly distorted through the plastic. Finally, Santiago Taccetti’s enamel-coated granite boulders seemed to glow from within, creating magical optical effects that were further enhanced by the mirror plinths that they sat upon. |
Continuing online, deeeee.de provides an archive of the works in the exhibition in addition to a selection of pieces from the artists’ oeuvres. Since every image is linked to another set of images, the works are remixed with every click of the mouse. With over two hundred pages to sift through, the site offers a rich viewing experience and gives a broader context to the works selected for the exhibition.
D ran from September 18-21 at ZweiDrei in Berlin and included the works of Aleksandra Domanović, Anthony Salvador, Aude Pariset, Brent Wadden. David Horvitz, Donna Huanca, Harm van den Dorpel, Ilja Karilampi, Karl Holmqvist, Kate Steciw, Lisa Holzer, Maiken Bent, Michiel Ceulers, Mirak Jamal, Petra Cortright, Santiago Taccetti, Sanya Kantarovsky and Ull Hohn. More online at deeeee.de.
 Ilja Karilampi, realness mixed emotions, 2013 |