Echoes in Rain
materialization 2017 / 2018 / 2019
photos Markus Kaesler, courtesy the artist
glass with paraffin traces in front of mirror with paraffin traces / humidifier, power banks, Amazon Echo Dots, cell phone, Instagram stream / UV print of deconstructed Stock Images of rock coated with plastic filter on customized personalized acrylic glass advertising banner [Navigation] / mirror with paraffin traces / Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Images of rock coated with plastic filter on transfer film on surface of sleeping bag [CXII (DH - And I was feeling free)] on top of UV print of deconstructed Stock Images of rock coated with plastic filter on customized personalized satin advertising banner next to earplugs on top of UV print of deconstructed Stock Images of rock interwoven with fossil inclusions, mud and digitized brush strokes on customized personalized satin advertising banner / water in glass frames / water-storing pearls in glass vitrine illuminated with LED / Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Images of clouds coated with plastic filter on transfer film on surface of sleeping bag [CVIII (DH - I've seen this face before)] / UV print of deconstructed Stock Images of clouds coated with plastic filter on customized personalized acrylic advertising banner [I've seen this face before].
___Scratches of Use | a
live stream as part of the Fragmented Landscape
Hanover, Berlin, Heidelberg, Dublin, Los Angeles | 2017 <> 2019
CVIII (DH - I've seen this face before) | 145 x 180 cm | materialization 2017 / 2019 | Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Images of clouds coated with plastic filter on transfer film on surface of sleeping bag
Delia Jürgens: ›Echoes in Rain‹, 2019
Delia Jürgens understands her artistic work as painting in space under the conditions of a changed perception of space in the 21st century. The user interfaces of computers, smartphones and diverse devices are the new windows into the world that no longer allow just a view of a defined space and time period. Rather, they simultaneously open up up-to-date images of distant places, live contact to absent people and access to unexpected amounts of information. The traditional boundaries shift between here and there and / or the time levels. The result: the room disintegrates into a multitude of simultaneous room fragments. Delia Jürgens processes this ›stretching‹ of space, the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous, the bridging of distance and proximity, in painterly installations, which she describes as ›Fragmented Landscapes‹. She assembles large-format individual elements in constellations that are adapted to the respective exhibition space and whose poetic titles accentuate individual aspects of the overall work. Her work therefore does not consist of individual works, but rather of ensembles from a constantly expanding pool of materials and objects.
›Echoes and Rain‹ at the Heidelberger Kunstverein opens a dynamic multimedia installation that continues the thematic complexes known from painting, such as the relationship between abstraction and image, the depth and limitation of pictorial spaces, and opens up an immersive space that can be experienced. Recurring motifs are reflections and condensation that are visible both in the individual workpieces and in the ensemble, for example in the duplication of a picture motif on different picture carriers (acrylic glass and sleeping bag) on opposite walls. In addition to mirrors and glass, Jürgens uses acrylic glass plates to emphasize the materials related to the user interfaces of technical devices. In the expanded and partly for the Heidelberger Kunstverein newly produced work complex Jürgens uses water as a fluid element and brings together material properties and metaphorical meaning. Image worlds in the digital age are often described as condensation of information “bits” on the screen. Jürgens induces condensation on glass panes and uses hydrogel beads to present an osmotic exchange as a dynamic process with permeable surfaces. For the installation at the Heidelberger Kunstverein, Jürgens also uses a voice box known as ›Echo‹, which she uses to record her own voice messages into the exhibition at irregular intervals.
Jürgens finds her motifs in picture templates from the digital and analog world which she then reworks. Most of them are pictures from nature, such as rocks or watercourses. The artist enlarges these templates until the pixel structure becomes visible, abstracts the natural phenomena and expands the pictorial space into an ›All Over‹: rock formations open up over the sleeping bags, a liquid swirls over a piece of carpet.
photos Markus Saile, courtesy Delia Jürgens
photos and courtesy the artist
Echoes in Rain
display of the Fragmented Landscape Echoes in Rain
Echoes in Rain | 145 x 205 cm | materialization 2017 | Ihme-Zentrum Hanover (GER) | two right-angled brass bars ahead 3D extruded Stock Images of mineralized rock (Gun Smoke Onyx) as woven pixels of cotton as personalized customized entity (photo blanket) skirted with golden satin bow in appearance of a carpet
Cloud Storage
screen of the Fragmented Landscape Echoes in Rain
Cloud Storage | 400 x 500 x 250 cm | materialization 2017 | Ihme-Zentrum Hanover (GER) | oil paint on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of 3D extruded clouds on transfer film on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of desert on transfer film on surface of sleeping bag [(CVI (DH – Vinculum)] / glass drop on achromatized Stock Image of mineralized rock (Tansania Onyx) as woven pixels of cotton as personalized customized entity (photo blanket) skirted with silver satin bow in appearance of a carpet on tiles on Styrofoam [E#3 (Etched)] / swung metal rod over Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of waterfall on adhesive advertising film under flat bars made of chrome on polymer [The Target is myself - I reach the Point of no Effort - the Arrow leaves the Bow] / Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of desert as satin advertising banner under aluminum flat bar [Desert [Display # 5. ripple]] / Seat cushion with cover.
A Song to pass the Time | 180 x 240 x 5 cm | materialization 2017 | oil paint on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of 3D extruded clouds on transfer film on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of desert on transfer film on surface of sleeping bag [(CVI (DH – Vinculum)] / glass drop on achromatized Stock Image of mineralized rock (Tansania Onyx) as woven pixels of cotton as personalized customized entity (photo blanket) skirted with silver satin bow in appearance of a carpet [E#3 (Etched)] on tiles on Styrofoam
CVI (DH – Vinculum) | 145 x 180 cm | materialization 2015 / 2017 | oil paint on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of 3D extruded clouds on transfer film on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of desert on transfer film on surface of sleeping bag
I've seen this Face before [Display #1.4] | 120 x 90 cm | materialization 2016 / 2017 | Ihme-Zentrum Hanover (DEU) | sea shell ahead cracked mirror panels on tiles glazed as Onyx | display of the screen 'Cloud Storage' in the Fragmented Landscape 'Echoes in Rain'
Untitled (to the unknown Man) | 250 x 175 x 60 cm | materialization 2017 | deconstructed Stock Images of mineralized rock as woven pixels of cotton as personalized customized entity (photo blanket) in appereance of a tapestry over mirror panel on tiles glazed as Black Onyx on Styrofoam | display of the Fragmented Landscape 'Echoes in Rain'
Something vague (like a Feeling)
screen of the Fragmented Landscape Echoes in Rain
CVII (DH – Whatever keeps you up at night or An Attempt to touch the Scale) | 145 x 180 cm | materialization 2015 / 2017 | clear coated oil paint on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of 3D extruded clouds on transfer film on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of desert on transfer film on surface of sleeping bag
Something vague (like a Feeling) | 300 x 400 x 250 cm | materialization 2017 | Ihme-Zentrum Hanover (GER) | mirrors leaning against wall / oil paint on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of 3D extruded clouds on transfer film on surface of Inkjet print of deconstructed Stock Image of desert on transfer film on surface of sleeping bag [CVII (DH – Whatever keeps you up at night or An Attempt to tip the Scale)] / silver string curtain / cracked glass panes in front of glass pane leaning against wall / black string curtain
