Marliz Frencken "Cruel Beauty"
57 STUX + HALLER Gallery
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STUX Gallery presents Cruel Beauty, a series of new sculptures by Dutch artist Marliz Frencken. After an extensive exhibition history throughout Europe, Frencken’s first solo exhibition in the United States in many years features her quasi-surreal sculptures of female figures brimming with paradox and symbolism.
Frencken has developed a unique sculpting technique in which she dips clay sculptures adhered with a variety of found objects in clear resin to create fairy tail-like women. The vibrant colors and the layering of curious and playful items such as perfume bottles, birds and babies is counteracted by the menacing addition of swords and pins which puncture their flesh, as barcodes and logos hang from various body parts. Their distorted, elongated, strange figures recall a diverse range of female ideals, all equally engrossing yet even sometimes macabre. Coated in a clear, dripping resin and bound up in coils of clay and cloth these women appear to be trapped or frozen in time, like specimens of a larger population. Through their voodoo-like qualities they reveal secret desires and fixations of modern women that we all can identify with.
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Schedule
from May 07, 2009 to June 13, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-05-07 from 18:00 to 20:00