HERBST DER GAMMLER at Marta Cervera

Artists: Ellie de Verdier, Jenni Knight, Olga Pedan, Victoria Colmegna

Exhibition title: HERBST DER GAMMLER

Curated by: The Duck

Venue: Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

Date: September 15 – November 16, 2016

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Marta Cervera

He carries his home with him and wherever he goes he finds himself. Living with the seasons he sees them come and go. Every autumn the leaves fall as if from an eternal half withered garden above the clouds. This detail unchanging like a mothers presence serving and scolding in the background of a child’s adventurous life. If death is just a form of forgetting his memories of childhood might as well have belonged to someone else. He rarely thinks of them, a life of constant movement offers so many fleeting moments to attach ones sentimentality to. It seems everything he sees belongs to him and he does not really need any of it.

From The Duck

The curators: The duck
The Duck is a group of artists related to the Frankfurt Staedelschule school. For some years this group has exhibited in artists studios in Berlin, including artists like Lena Henke, Genoveva Filipovic or Ellie Verdier. The Duck has exhibited for the last time and closed its doors this September 2016. Marta Cervera Gallery has the pleasure to present a project of The Duck with the occasion of Apertura2016.

Victoria Colmegna, Replica of my neighbours couch, Weserstasse 80, 2016
Mixed media, 95x150x80 cm

Victoria Colmegna, El exceso de energía puede ser usado para el crecimiento de un sistema. Si el sistema ya no puede crecer, o si el exceso no puede ser completamente absorbido por el
crecimiento tiene que ser perdido sin beneficio. Tiene que ser gastado, queriendo o no de, 2016. Mixed media, 100x150x80 cm