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Silke Otto-Knapp

SILKE OTTO-KNAPP

North & South Galerie Buchholz 29 June–25 August 2012 Berlin
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In her third solo exhibition at Galerie Buchholz Silke Otto-Knapp presents new paintings and works on paper. The title of the exhibition North & South is taken from the poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) who titled her first published collection of poems in 1946 like this. For her new works Silke Otto-Knapp uses dark grey tones and combines, amongst others, images of North American coastal landscapes with seascapes, sailing ships and a model ship from the Lane House Museum in Tilting, Newfoundland, with winter landscapes, pictures of the dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin’s (*1920) Mountain Home Studios stage, and stage designs by Natalia Goncharova for the ballet “Le Coq d’or (The Golden Cockerel)” from 1914 and Pablo Picasso for the ballet Parade from 1917.

‘Topography displays no favorites; North’s as near as West. More delicate than the historians’ are the map-makers’ colours.’

(Elizabeth Bishop ‘The Map’, from North and South, Boston 1946)

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About the Artist

Silke Otto-Knapp was born in Osnabrück, Germany, and lived in Los Angeles, where she served as professor of painting and drawing at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. She earned an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, in 1996, and a Degree in Cultural Studies at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, in 1997.

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About the Gallery

Galerie Buchholz is an art gallery specializing in international contemporary art, with exhibition spaces in Cologne, Berlin and New York City. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christopher Müller.

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Berlin Fasanenstraße 30
Galerie Buchholz contemporary art gallery in Berlin Germany
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30, Berlin, Germany
+49 30 8862 4056
http://www.galeriebuchholz.de

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10am – 6pm
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