event
FRAMED #47 Alexej Gerassimez & Haggai Cohen-Milo / Exhibition Katharina Arndt
FRAMED #47 features percussion virtuoso Alexej Gerassimez, known for his explosive energy, precision, and genre-crossing performances that redefine classical percussion. Exhibition by Katharina Arndt.
Time & Location
27 Feb 2021, 19:30
Simplonstraße 29, Simplonstraße 29, 10245 Berlin, Germany
About the event
MUSIC – Alexej Gerassimez & Haggai Cohen-Milo
ART EXHIBITION – Katharina Arndt
Katharina Arndt’s paintings and drawings focus on digital communication behavior and the visual aspect of mass-consumption aesthetics in the digital age.
The works on view were derived from long hours spent on a Barcelona beach last summer, observing people’s behavior, the things they use, and how they pose for Instagram. Lazy, easy mood, emptiness, happiness, simple goals.
The ‘Decadence’ and the ‘Superficial’ are major symbols in Katharina’s work. The ‘Surface’ – a glossy smartphone screen, hairless bodies with mirrored sunglasses. The ‘Smoothness’ of this eternal youth is artificial, uncritical, superficial, and conformist. With headphones on, they’re at the same time socially active and totally isolated.
This hyperreal, immaterial online world is dominated by the visual appearance of ourselves and of the products we consume.
On artificial media such as PVC film, lacquer paper, and Plexiglas, Katharina Arndt depicts fast, reduced, almost childlike motifs using glossy acrylic paint and lacquer markers.