Amelia Biewald "Intrigues" Exhibition
Magnan Metz Gallery
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In her latest works Biewald harnesses her interest in great legends and mingles fact with fiction to recreate fables or intrigues. Her frenzied world of hybrid beings are captured in a state of transformation and unions from one animal or being to another, forever becoming a tree, or a woman or a horse – seeking the pinnacle of supernatural beauty.
Employing a wide range of materials, the artist creates sensual surfaces and textures. Drawing on upholstered velvet, brush-drawn and carved lines on vellum and molded leather surfaces, Biewald achieves varying levels of translucency, further exploring her interest in notions of supernaturalness. She explains, “What interests me are the inherent visual possibilities of [that] supernaturalness; where the line between what is artificial and what is natural with regards to our physicality becomes blurred. I create crypto-zoological ‘scapes’ involving painterly drawing on vellum, leather, and upholstered velvets, inhabited by these unique complex characters. These characters, these crypto-equestrian and crypto-vegetal hybrid beings, are portrayed as desirable and alluring, yet dangerous. I imagine and create universes or ‘landscapes’ for these beings to inhabit.”
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from November 06, 2008 to December 20, 2008