Olivia van Kuiken – Losing looking leaving | Caprii | Ed. 7

Name: Olivia van Kuiken – Losing looking leaving | Caprii | Ed. 7
Brand: Sies + Höke
Price: 10.0 EUR
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• English, Softcover
• 32 pages
• 16,8 x 23,5 cm
• Text: Reilly Davidson
• Editing: Nina Weimer
• Design: Thomas Spallek
• ISBN 978-3-932729-47-8
• Published by Sies + Höke, 2024

Published on the occasion of the exhibition:

Olivia van Kuiken
Losing looking leaving
Aug 30th – Sep 28th, 2024
Caprii by Sies + Höke, Orangeriestr. 6, 40213 Düsseldorf.

Each of the solo and group exhibitions composing the dynamic, playful programme of Caprii is accompanied by a booklet, which offers an extended plane for holistically encountering the praxis of the respective artists.

The seventh edition presents a series of Olivia van Kuiken. Olivia van Kuiken (b. 1997) is a New York-based contemporary painter, engaged primarily in the underlying mechanisms of the alienated experience. Her works upend traditional notions of representation and dislocate language, seeking to push forms, shapes and symbols to the edge of their meaning. Subjects are immersed within wayward panels and fractured landscapes, as gestural marks, pools of colour and overlaid motifs coalesce fragmented compositions. Drawing upon myriad literary references, van Kuiken pursues the complexity of language, linguistically as much as visually, in painterly considerations on how the history of the medium may relate to and open the space beyond this system of communication.
The booklet series is designed by Studio Thomas Spallek and is made using remnant paper stock sourced from Druckerei Kettler.

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Olivia van Kuiken – Losing looking leaving, 2024, Caprii, Düsseldorf

Olivia van Kuiken frequently refers to her strategy as “elliptical,” which is demonstrated both formally and in subject. Her practice is marked by this plurality as she surfs around in a universe populated by Sadian violence, technological sympathies, and lyrical poetry. The work lingers around associations and disrupted trains of thought, the bedrocks of linguistic play. Imaginal complexes are thus achieved through the abstraction and repetition of van Kuiken’s chosen forms. Her research heavy field of vision is constantly renegotiated, though she’s inclined to represent familiar subjects that echo from the past. After all, images belong to no one, it’s all a mere shuffling between artists and generations alike. […]