WHITE CUBE, BERMONDSEY until 13 April 2014
Franz
Ackermann, 9x9x9, 2014 © Franz Ackermann Photo: Jack Hems, Courtesy White Cube |
His paintings and installations are centred on travel, tourism, globalisation and urbanism. You feel compelled to move around the installation, adjusting to its exuberance, feeling the energy and tension of deeply populated areas. His work often deals with the double side of tourism. These are non-places where the traveller’s desire replaces the local culture. The glamour and speed of international travel are held in tension with architectural scarring and debris.
The accompanying notes suggest that there are quasi-religious connotations in his work. Paintings hang in close proximity to one another around a prominent architectural centrepiece. Perhaps they re-create the sensory exuberance and visual stimulation of a Renaissance chapel? Is it too much to suggest that there is a hint of the preoccupations of Renaissance artists there too, the paradox of heaven and hell, light and darkness, sleeping and watching, glory and gunge?
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