Niq Nanu Daah
Snow White & Other Colors of the Soul
Niq Nanu Daah’s poetic oeuvre oscillates between abstraction and representation, between past and future, between dream and reality. Her technique is extraordinary, she works in acrylic on paper, but the artworks seem like collages. Different image levels exist, interlocking, different styles that combine to form an exceptional whole. The image subject is always only hinted at, never fully formulated and has a surreal enigmatic appeal. Among abstract-expressive layers of color, sculptural objects arise, figures and animals which appear to come from past times and different countries.
In Dadaist-cubist style, Niq Nanu Daah creates a dream-like atmosphere, playing with inscriptions, symbols and signs. Often these are fragments from ancient Asian mythology which in their ‘haptic’ manner fight their way to the surface through translucent layers of paint. Her works give the impression of pieces of hidden identities whose mystery captures us. We try to fathom, penetrate their depths, looking for the "picture behind the picture" and maybe for a piece of ourselves.
SEO, Maik Wolf, Andy Denzler, Sabina Sakoh, Sonja Alhäuser, Cornelia Schleime, Jiny Lan
Rage, intoxication, madness, ecstasy - thus the term 'Frenzy' is defined. Their creative madness drives artists to innovative works, to experiments and to the ever-recurring evaluation of their own chosen themes.
Our exhibition at the end of the year 2016 unites painters who dedicate themselves to the human being and his portrayal, to see through his peculiarities and to question man each one in their own way, not least from their different angles and from their different cultural origins.
Cornelia Schleime, winner of this year's Hannah-Höch-award, impresses with disturbing, intimate portraits of women; Sabina Sakoh, with the political content of her "Raft" series, reminds us that our civilization is threatened to disintegrate.
Sonja Alhäuser's scultures focus on our relation with animals and challenge the understanding of food.
SEO is intensively concerned with growing globalization and technologizing of the human environment; so is Maik Wolf, with his glowing, depopulated worldviews.
Andy Denzler from Zurich is challenging our visual habits by setting images and landscapes in motion, and at the same time stopping the film in the viewer’s mind.
Jiny Lan finally combines in her paintings the structural element of calligraphy from her homeland with painterly traditions from the pictorial language of totalitarian governments and abstract elements.
Opening
Saturday, December 17, 2016 from 7 - 9 pm
Exhibition
December 17, 2016 - January 21, 2016
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