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GÉSINE HACKENBERG: Still Lifes
AUGUST 14 - September 12
Artists Reception: Friday August 20, 2010 5:30-7:30
Conversation with artist: Saturday August 21, 11am

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The source of Gésine Hackenberg's newest work, Still Lifes, lies in her study of 17th and 18th century Dutch still life paintings and their meaning, the tables exquisitely laden with the finest tableware and food. She re-interprets this perfect translation of the three to the two-dimensional, the realistic vista of the dishes, glasses and bowls, into her work. The Still Lifes collection consists of two groups: on the one hand brooches like small sculptures, carved from stone. On the other, brooches and necklaces in which everyday glassware has been cut and rearranged into new compositions, new still lifes. The body takes on the role of the canvas as it were and becomes a tableau vivant.

Still Lifes was made possible in part by
The Netherlands Foundation For Visual Arts, Design and Architecture

 


Selected works below: all pieces are 2010 and unless marked, are brooches.
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Left: Finnish Still Life, Finnish table glass (by Timo Sarpaneva); cut and ground. Right: Dutch and Finnish Still Life, Dutch (recent design by Aldo Bakker) and Finnish (vintage by Kristalunie Maastricht) table glass; cut and ground







 

 

Still Life: Granite Vase, carved granite, oxidized silver, steel

Kitchen Glass: Still Life. glass, ruthenium, plated nickel silver

Left: Double Glass Still Life. Finnish table glass (vintage by Itala); cut and ground
Right: Dutch Table Glass (vintage by Kristalunie Maastricht); cut and ground

Table Glass: Green Bottle Neckpiece. glass, silver



Table Glass: Green and Blue Dutch. Dutch Table Glass (vintage by Kristalunie Maastricht); cut and ground



Still Life: Deep Plate. carved onyx, silver, steel