Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 6 p.m.
Gallery talk with the artist: Saturday, September 12th, at 2 p.m.

Duration of the Exhibition: September 11th to October 09th, 2009

Credit: Tina Berning: THE PASSENGERS III, 32 x 23,5 cm, Ink and Gouache on paper, 2009

Tina Berning
100 Girls On Cheap Paper + The Passengers

Gallery Hanahou is celebrating the release of Tina Berning’s new edition of her sold out classic book ‘100 girls on cheap paper’. At the same time the gallery is presenting the second solo show of the renowned artist in New York: ‘The Passengers’. ‘This body of works has its origins in Tina Berning’s 2009 solo exhibition in Munich titled ‘The Listeners.’ The works from that show have grown and evolved as they travel to New York, becoming ‘The Passengers’.

With ‘The Passengers’ Tina Berning continues to explore the relationships between conditioned aesthetics and supposed subjective ambition in the canon of contemporary visuals. The drawings formulate the artist’s own images of the human body, its inadequacy and its fundamental relation to self-determination. Tina Berning releases figures out of their heteronomous, medial contexts and shifts them into an interplay between voyeurism and exhibitionism. She uses her paintings and drawings as carriers to extricate subjects from the contemporary alienated incapacitation. Codes and matrices blanket faces, streaks of colour lie like shadows over the delicate silhouettes. Interventions that follow Tina Berning’s study to open the plainness of shemes into the ambiguity of expression. She makes subtle corrections to the standard, uniform face and figure, enabling a look of physical expressiveness to return. Even when they appear fragile and vulnerable, the faces and images of the people take on a form that is more resistive.

gallery hanahou is delighted to welcome you to the exhibition opening on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 6 p.m.

gallery hanahou will also host a talk with the artist open to the public on Saturday, September 12th, at 2 p.m.

More of Tina Berning’s new artistic work may be found at: www.galleryhanahou.com

gallery hanahou
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