Complimentary Blue
June 28–September 15, 2019
Palais Stutterheim
Marktplatz 1
91054 Erlangen
Germany
What does reality mean after the digital revolution? Anna K.E. (*1986 in Tbilisi, Georgia) and Florian Meisenberg (*1980 in Berlin, Germany) are pursuing this burning question in their own unique way. Since eight years, they share a studio and an apartment in New York, and investigate their joint creative process. They share a mutual interest in the latest technologies and their impact on the digital and analogue world. Their solo exhibition at Kunstpalais combines paintings, videos, installations and computer simulations into one enormous art parcour.
Florian Meisenberg began his artistic career as a painter, which is apparent in his persistent fascination of surfaces, displays and other two-dimensional pictures. As a professionally trained dancer, Anna K.E. often works with her own body to produce videos, performances and photographs. As different as their artistic strategies might be, a joint affinity towards a contemporary aesthetics is observable within their individual works on the basement floor, inspired by smooth reflecting surfaces and computer-generated colors.
On the ground floor, they show collaborative projects. The six videos from Late Checkout were all produced in New York and show the duo sliding in symbiotic movements through their hotel room. They are communicating without words. K.E. filmed by Meisenberg reacts to the pictures of herself through his live-feed, transmitted to her smartphone display. In Countdown Belladonna they film the reflection of their phone displays in their iris with a high resolution camera. For a well-curated hour the artists give us insights into their favourite scenes from diverse feature films and documentaries as well as their YouTube favourites. The work Electric Forest, an installation with 3D-LED-fans and an online-simulation, will premiere at Kunstpalais. The online-simulation is publicly accessible under: www.100untitledworksinmillaluminum.org/.
Curator: Milena Mercer
Press contact:
Helga Krutzler
helga.krutzler [at] stadt.erlangen.de
