Katinka Bock — Tumulte à Higienópolis
Exhibition
Katinka Bock
Tumulte à Higienópolis
Past: October 9, 2019 → January 5, 2020
Katinka Bock — Lafayette Anticipations Lafayette Anticipations présente jusqu’au 05 janvier 2020 une exposition ambitieuse et réussie de Katinka Bock, lauréate du Prix Ri... CritiqueKatinka Bock’s sculptures, performances and installations result from her investigation of the physical and material conditions of a given place, and an exploration of its historical, social and political charge. As such, they are all connected to her experience of that place.
Her interest in place and dimension is reflected in the hypotheses she formulates prior to the sculpting process, and by her questioning of our preconception of a place, its persistence in time or how it becomes altered through use.
Her work has been shown worldwide but — surprisingly, considering this has been her home for many years — never in Paris. Restoration of a building in Hanover has provided an unexpected opportunity to develop, with the artist, an original and spectacular project with elements in every part of Lafayette Anticipations.
The building in question, the Anzeiger-Hochhaus in Hanover, is one of the city’s most remarkable, as well as a landmark in news publishing as Der Stern and Der Spiegel, two influential weeklies, both originated in its basement. The roof of this huge rectangle of red brick supports a copper dome measuring 12 metres in diameter, now patinated green. Restoration of this listed building has permitted Katinka Bock to recover some of this copper.
Immediately, Bock identified analogies between the Anzeiger-Hochhaus building and that of Lafayette Anticipations, a space for ideas and creativity that begins in the basement studios where works are produced, and rises towards the public areas. The symbolic nature of this physical ascension was not lost on the artist, whose project to fill the central exhibition tower with a suspended installation is characteristic of her heightened sensitivity to dimension, material conditions, space and time.
Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover.
With the support of Madsack.
In partnership with Libération, L’Officiel Art and Trois Couleurs.
Paris exhibition
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During the exhibition
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Katinka Bock — Visite de l’exposition
Visit
Saturday, October 12, 2019 5 PM → 6 PM
Visit Katinka Bock, Tumulte à Higienópolis exhibition with François Quintin, the Fondation’s Director.
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Katinka Bock — Ateliers pour enfants
Event
October 26 → December 8, 2019
From different surfaces, alternately rough, smooth or textured… the children explore the tactile dimension of the sculpture.
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Katinka Bock — Ateliers d’éditions
Event
October 28 → December 7, 2019
“Commotions” is a project for a journal that was initiated by the artist Katinka Bock to coincide with her exhibition.
Led by Thomas Boutoux (critic, publisher, teacher) and Clara Schulmann (critic, teacher), the project aims to create a journal — from producing content to publication — in just 24 hours, ready for visitors to pick up the following day.
Opening hours
Wednesday – Sunday, 11 AM – 7 PM