May 12 - June 30, 2012 Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 7 pm Opening reception: Friday, May 11, 2012, 7 - 10 pm
Galerie Emmanuel Post is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition The Monkey on My Back of work by the artist Gabriela Jolowicz of recent mid- and large-format woodcuts.
Gabriela Jolowicz captures ephemeral sceneries of everyday life in one of the oldest and most traditional visual media, the woodcut. Still life images with laptop or Ipod add to the more prominently featured dense genre-like sceneries of metropolitan life and interiors such as music and pool clubs. The real three-dimensional living environment and immediately experienced situations are captured in the two-dimensional woodcut within the confinements of the black and white technique. Jolowicz freezes an already fading afterimage of reality in a fragmented and kaleidoscopic manner. Defamilarizing elements add to a seemingly realistic mode of depiction. The sobriety of the sceneries is broken up through the interspersion of sample images and idiosyncratic compositions. Great richness of detail and a pronounced variety of structures bring about a confusing and irritating simultaneity of forms. The structures, realized in either acutely delicate or crude cuts, are heightened in a playful employment of proportions and through perspective distortion, readable as decorative graphic patterns or elements suggestive of spatial depth. In this context, Herbert Eichhorn (Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen) alludes to "a veritable horror vacui and a desire to break open the wooden surface" and refers to the artist's deliberate quotation of printmaking history.
Gabriela Jolowicz, born in Salzgitter, Germany in 1978, lives and works in Berlin. From 2002 to 2007, she studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in the class of illustration with Prof. Volker Pfüller and Prof. Thomas Müller. From 2002 to 2007, she pursued her post-graduate studies with Prof. Thomas Müller.
Her works belong to the collections of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt/Main, and the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen.
Exhibitions (selection): 2012 Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City; PrintRoom, Rotterdam; 2011 Beach London, London; Galerie Emmanuel Post, Berlin; 2010 Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen; Gallery MC, New York; Galerie Baer / Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Dresden; Kunsthaus Hamburg; Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig; Galerie Hafenrand, Hamburg; Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig; Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie, Quedlinburg; Galerie Bongoût, Berlin; 2009 Leipziger Jahresausstellung; Kunstverein Marburg; Museum der Bildenden Künste; 2008 Cranach Haus Wittenberg.
Publications (selection): Lubok. Gráfica contemporánea y libros de artistas de Leipzig, ed. on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, Lubok Verlag, Leipzig, 2012; Lubok in Reutlingen, ed. Lubok Verlag / Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen, 2011; druckreif - junge künstlerinnen und künstler erproben die werkstätten, ed. Harald Rüggeberg / Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg e.V., 2010; HGB Leipzig: WANDERER. Artist book, ed. on the occasion of the group exhibition of the same name at the Marburger Kunstverein, 2009; Ch. Ruckhäberle / T. Siemon: MEGABILLIG, GABRIELA JOLOWICZ (Reihe LUBOK SPEZIAL, Leipzig), 2008; Ch. Ruckhäberle / T. Siemon: LUBOK 2, 2007.
GALERIE EMMANUEL POST / BERLIN Grolmanstrasse 46 10623 Berlin t +49.30.21460830 m +49.176.24518058 Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 9 pm
