Schüttelreime

Becky Beasley, David Hominal, Gabriel Kuri, Ataru Sato, Alan Stanners, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski

10 May 28 June 2008

Installation view, *Schüttelreime*
Office Baroque, Antwerp, 2008

David Hominal
Installation view, *Schüttelreime*
Office Baroque, Antwerp, 2008

Gabriel Kuri
Installation view, *Schüttelreime*
Office Baroque, Antwerp, 2008

Becky Beasley
Installation view, *Schüttelreime*
Office Baroque, Antwerp, 2008

Alan Stanners
Installation view, *Schüttelreime*
Office Baroque, Antwerp, 2008

Becky Beasley
*Malcontenta*, 2007
Gelatin silver print, dry mounted on canvas
224 × 190 cm (88 3/16 × 74 13/16 inches)
edition of 2

Jakub Julian Ziolkowski
*Untitled*, 2008
mixed media on paper
45,5 × 35,5 cm (17 15/16 × 14 inches)

Jakub Julian Ziolkowski
*Untitled*, 2008
mixed media on paper
45,7 × 35 cm (17 15/16 × 13 3/4 inches)

Jakub Julian Ziolkowski
*Untitled (Aladdin)*, 2008
mixed media on paper
45,5 × 35 cm (17 15/16 × 13 3/4 inches)

Ataru Sato
*I mistakenly said to her, Why don’t you go insane and die*, 2008
pencil on paper
84,5 × 56 cm (33 1/4 × 22 inches)

Alan Stanners
*Casper and David McGuffin*, 2007
oil on canvas
100 × 79 cm (39 3/8 × 31 1/8 inches)

Alan Stanners
*Born Bad (Representation Anxiety)*, 2008
oil on canvas
80 × 60 cm (31 1/2 × 23 5/8 inches)

Schüttelreime or shake-up rhymes, as a literary genre, are characterized by the manifold application of the same material with a very peculiar modification.

The exhibition features a topography of “horror vacui” and of claustrophobia among others, and attempts to map their relation to associative reasoning. The exhibition’s strategy will be inclusive, dealing simultaneously with the rigidity of minimalism, and with the indiscipline of automatist drawing and writing principles, in order to fill the distance between the sublime and the irrational with more subversive, visual strategies. The exhibition’s mental horizon will be an investigation into representations of desire, pleasures, death and anxiety.

Becky Beasley (UK, 1975), lives and works in Berlin
David Hominal (CH, 1976), lives and works in Lausanne
Gabriel Kuri (MX, 1970), lives and works in Brussels
Ataru Sato (JP, 1986), lives and works in Kyoto
Alan Stanners (UK, 1985), lives and works in Berlin
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski (PL, 1980), lives and works in Krakow