Kari Altmann. Xomia (Return Home, Realflow, All Terrain)
KARI ALTMANN, Xomia (Return Home, Realflow, All Terrain)
installation view at Ellis King, Dublin, April 2015
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Stretch Fle and Xtend, 2015
inkjet on vinyl and aluminium hardware 91.5 x 66 x 7.5 cm (26 x 36 x 3 inches)
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Everything is a Virus, 2015
inkjet on vinyl and aluminium hardware 91.5 x 66 x 7.5 cm (26 x 36 x 3 inches)
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KARI ALTMANN, Xomia (Return Home, Realflow, All Terrain)
installation view at Ellis King, Dublin, April 2015
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Hyde A, 2015
inkjet on synthetic leather in plexi frame
106.68 x 132.08 x 5.72cm (42 x 52 x 2 1⁄4 inches)
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All Terrain, 2015
inkjet on vinyl, synthetic leather, air plants, and aluminium hardware
300 x 240 x 40 cm (118 x 94 1⁄2 x 15 3⁄4 inches)
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All Terrain (back), 2015
inkjet on vinyl, synthetic leather, air plants, and aluminium hardware
300 x 240 x 40 cm (118 x 94 1⁄2 x 15 3⁄4 inches)
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Hyde B, 2015
inkjet on synthetic leather in plexi frame,
106.68 x 132.08 x 5.72cm (42 x 52 x 2,25 in)
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KARI ALTMANN, Xomia (Return Home, Realflow, All Terrain)
installation view at Ellis King, Dublin, April 2015
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Make It More Ergonomic, 2015
plastic and moulding clay, 22 x 15 x 5 cm (8 1⁄2 x 6 x 2 inches)
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KARI ALTMANN, Xomia (Return Home, Realflow, All Terrain)
installation view at Ellis King, Dublin, April 2015
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The Site of Future Mergers, 2015
inkjet on vinyl, synthetic leather, air plants, and aluminium hardware
300 x 240 x 40 cm (118 x 94 1⁄2 x 15 3⁄4 inches)
all images courtesy the artist and Ellis King, Dublin
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In an interview that KARI ALTMANN gave for aqnb last year, she explained that she uses brands like formats, and that these ‘formats are fluid, that an artwork can now live as something beyond that’, and that eventually her main interest is to create ‘networks of cultural technology thanks to the internet and its options to what an artwork can be, what an image can be, and how it can move and display itself’. Xomia (Return Home, Realflow, All Terrain), her new solo exhibition currently presented at Ellis King in Dublin, is no exception to this concern.
Xomia (Return Home, Realflow, All Terrain) is undoubtedly diverse and lively, and challenges classic sculptural questions concerning representation and reception even if a large part of ALTMANN‘s work is composed of tumblrs, websites, soundcloud accounts or facebook pages among other materials.
Most of the works in the exhibition – comprising wall pieces, sculptures, videos and wallpapers – presented in the large and bright space of Ellis King seem to define her virtual and intangible world thanks to a precise display of pacing, color, sound, and mood. The press release (see below) is also a structuring element of the project:
How Do You Remain Elegant About Survival?
Reduce It Down To Skeletal Movements
Make It More Ergonomic
Customize, Decorate To Fit
Stretch, Flex, And Xtend
Show Up Fresh, Stay Fluid
It Works In Liquid Impressions
XEVIA AND AQUAHYDRATE COMBINE TO FORM AQUEVIA XHYDRATIA
Head Toward The Horizon Together
Grip The Ground With TalonFlux
The Best Of Soft-Shell And Hard-Shell
Orca Killer Compression Core
Second-Skin
Stimulastine
The Ability To Detach And Reattach
Your Friend Ssaleikha Just Posted A New Photo On Zorpia!
In A Closed But Very Powerful Ecosystem
Not Just A Network, It’s An Attitude
Also Comes In Clay, Clear, Blue, White, Iridescent
Until Everything Is A Mandala
Everything Is A Compass
Everything Is A Virus
Everything Is A Sun
It’s A Big World, Go Run It
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If you are in Dublin, make sure to view Xomia (Return Home, Realflow, All Terrain) at Ellis King before it closes on May 2, 2015.
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ps. FLEXIA XLE III (2015) one of the videos presented in the exhibition is on view on wfw, watch it here!
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