The Galleries
dal 16/9/2014 al 24/10/2014
Segnalato da
16/9/2014
The Galleries
Soy capitan, Berlin
"We never heard a male player roaring and grunting like Monica Seles. Women have always played their game harder than the ancestral line of male super artists, players or collectors".
The rear of the shirt remains white, no matter what the style! And so does art. Hard, edgy and without compromise - but always white on its backside.
We never heard a male player roaring and grunting like Monica Seles. Women have always played their game harder than the ancestral line of male super artists, players or collectors.
And there they were: women! Eccentric, flamboyant, politicized. This was definitely hardball. While male players were more focussed on diving volleys, histrionic rages or designing underwear, the ladies‘ singles, on the other hand - the backhand, as it were - was nothing less than a fight to the end.
Likewise with the ships. Daddies‘ cruise ships were falling asleep, whilst the collectors’ yachts at the quay of the Arsenale looked like the big white teeth of an omnivorous oligarch. Shiny shiny super-moneyed dentistry.
Therefore, they called their boat „Guilty“. Changing the dazzling white into world war camouflage, knowing ‚occupy‘ means ‚copupy‘. Go for it. Get your gun.
And this again was another form of gender shifting. You were left looking at the canvas, searching for punctum and studium, while at the same time you totally missed the big picture: This definitely wasn’t the men‘s singles! The old elites have fallen. Return to Jutta Koether‘s „Inside Job“.
Opening: 17 Sept, 6-10pm
Soy Capitán. Heike Tosun
Prinzessinnenstraße 29 - 10969 Berlin
Wednesday to Saturday 12-6 pm
and by appointment