abc (Art Berlin Contemporary) begins this week, bringing together over 60 galleries from Berlin and further afield. Ahead of Thursday’s opening, we select some of the highlights.
Sean Snyder at Galerie Neu, Berlin
Sean Snyder presents 1.618033987, 5, 25, 99, 747 with Galerie Neu. The work is an exploration of our current modes of receiving information, considering 21st century screen ratios and the Golden ratio via algorithms. The American artist distorts images and examines the idea of the ‘perfect ratio’, looking at the pyramids of Giza, Marcel Broodthaers’s slide projection Bateau Tableau and footage of rough and stormy waters.
Daniel Knorr at Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
For his solo presentation with the Austrian gallery, Knorr will move an original WWII bunker from Brunswick Harbour to the fair for Solo – Bunker (2016). Enterable within the fair, the small bunker offers a sense of solace, and an unusual outpost to view the surrounding bustle.
Saâdane Afif at Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
New works from Afif’s L’Eternité series will be shown by Mehdi Chouakri. The series takes its cue from Arthur Rimbaud’s 1872 poem, with a mix of images, lyrics (commissions of artists’, curators’ and friends’ poetic responses to his works) and an original curtain from a previous performance by the French-born, Berlin-based artist at IAC Villeurbanne.
Laure Prouvost at Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
Winner of the 2011 Max Mara Art Prize for Women and 2013’s Turner Prize, Laure Prouvost will be shown by Carlier Gebauer. The artist French artist will perform From the Sky at 5pm on Friday in the restaurant of the fair. She will also present two multimedia installations, and a video installation with the German gallery.
Simone Gilges at KM Galerie, Berlin
Simone Gilges will show Appropriated physical landscape (as a result of social landscape in art) with Berlin’s KM, creating a ‘pseudo-romantic setting’ via landscape photography and textiles. The artist works with distortion using chemicals, and mixing black and white and colour processes, turning her landscapes into something ‘other’, sections of which are destroyed entirely.
‘abc‘ runs from 15 until 18 September at Station Berlin
