KATI HECK – INS BURO!
2015-11-16Born in Germany, Kati Heck is based in Antwerp, Belgium. With an intense and provocative sensibility that draws on historical precedents from Surrealism to Social Realism, Heck is a painter of astonishing facility, with an alchemical sensitivity to the human form and a devilish ironic streak. Her paintings incorporate strange scenarios, often sustained for a body of work, involving particular characters based on folks she invites into her studio. The resulting images constitute their own, highly unusual and particular world, a fantasy state, some of which is crafted in dreams. Arms are transparent, strange beasts enter the scene including an ostrich serving coffee to a couple on a futon; a young man’s pronounced varicose veins are matched by the other leg, which seems to be frozen; an animated man in a rocking chair holds a ball of light in one hand, the other submerged in a jar of pickles. This new group of works, which includes a mural-sized painting with a full range of haunting and haunted characters, conjures the supernatural in various ways, invoking a spiritual and material ecosystem as singular and peculiar as it is wondrous and open.
Opposite – Der süssliche Erinnerungsmehrwert, 2015
Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2016
Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Ave.
3rd Floor
Chicago
IL 60622
