Patina Painting 6, 3 Days at Sea, Bottnischer Meerbusen, 5.–7.6.2002
Stretched canvas in standard size, white universal primer
24 x 30 cm
Patina Painting 6, 3 Days at Sea, Bottnischer Meerbusen, 5.–7.6.2002
Stretched canvas in standard size, white universal primer
24 x 30 cm
Karin Sander
06.10.2007 – 03.11.2007
Solo Exhibition
USA
Karin Sander's solo exhibition at D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York consists of works from the series titled Mailed Paintings. Without prior manipulation the primed store-bought canvases were mailed unwrapped to the gallery from various international locations thus visually transcribing the distance by collecting marks on their unprotected surfaces along the journey.
The Mailed Paintings along with Gebrauchsbilder (pictures for use) are projects that are part of a larger body of work titled The Patina Paintings. In Gebrauchsbilder the paintings start out as blank canvases and autonomously create themselves by absorbing the patina of the environment where they are installed for a period of time, such as a coal cellar or deck of a ship. In a similar way, the Mailed Paintings collect patina from handling and the exposure to the elements along their postal route and are considered done when they arrive at the gallery.
The monochromatic white surfaces act as self-writing diaries that record the journey of the work. This process embraces chance and risk and points to the larger conceptual practice of Karin Sander, who always operates in the extended field of painting by putting an emphasis on the environment of the exhibition and the circumstances surrounding it, like in her well-known polished wall pieces. The collected patina exaggerates and mirrors the effect of the passage of time on the surface of the painting, and her installation in the gallery is reminiscent of both Suprematism and the ready-made.