October 2001
Geometrical Affairs
New acquisitions and works from the collection
Sylvie Fleury
John Armleder
Josef Albers
Gottfried HoneggerCamille Graeser
Gail Haistings
Karin Sander
Karin Sander
b.1957 Bensberg/DBreak Room, Room 38 / House 136 Untertürkheim,1992
Wall paint on wood-chip wallpaper, on wood, 130 x 130 x 4.5 cm
Karin Sanders interventions into existing situations - outdoors or indoors, affecting walls or floors - are minimal, and subtle in their effect. These works, which are derived from the existing space in every respect, open up surprising perspectives for viewers in terms of the place they are in, or in relation to what a picture actually is. When the artist covers the surface of a picture with the piece of wallpaper that was originally behind the picture, thus inevitably obscuring it completely, then the hidden background to the picture or the wall is shifted into the foreground, and becomes the picture.
Sander's works go beyond mere conceptualism and mark out remarkable intermediate areas between things that are there and things that are not there, inside and outside, front and back.