KATINKA PILSCHEUR

source: boell-brandenburgde

Katinka Pilscheur works with a variety of materials to create her installations, which are often large three-dimensional objects. These tend to be a group of combined ready-mades – usually where found objects are linked to one another. In this way, Katinka Pilscheur builds spatial collages from the seemingly banal, tearing everyday things out of their context and creating new sculptural objects. Her sculptural works also integrate the exhibition space. Depending on position and lightning, the glossy painted monochrome surfaces of her works reflect objects and beholders in constantly changing forms, making them hard to classify as the installations themselves. For this reason, the work’s intimate relation to the exhibition space is just as important as the act of choosing the objects. The artefact coalesces with its presentation to form an overall artwork, and the act of creating the work is immanent with a status equal to the finished work of art itself.

Katinka Pilscheur has designed a three-dimensional collage for the smoking room in Schloss Marquardt. A copper rod, creating a strong diagonal across the room, pierces a painted surface that is nearly ceiling-high. The painting’s matt white surface is set to the front, while its high-gloss black side faces the interior of the room. The beholders and the room are reflected equally on the polished surface and, in this way, a new space is created. The artist plays with the dimensions of a given space and dissolves them. The painting functions like a mirror, taking away the beholder’s sense of orientation. As a classical symbol of power equivalent to Wotan’s spear, the copper rod pierces the image and simultaneously offers it the support needed to stand freely in space.
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source: katinkapilscheur
I was drawn to Katinka Pilscheur at the very beginning; I knew we had something in common. From the moment I saw power tools and materials piled in wait, I knew: this was my childhood. The soft metal memories of mine, bent into an arc of energy; the suffering of hard labour but the joy and understanding of a true days work. The destruction and rebirth of Berlin’s scenes of construction. The wait for something spectacular and the result of something mundane. As we up look at the ivory tower of glass and metal only to feel dismay, lower your eyes; change lies at the very core and center of being. Change is more than the world
building up around us. Pilscheur captures still shots of seemingly benign pieces of the whole and cages them. She is tempting the viewer to irritate these faux animals to see what they are really made of. She will create an unease in our legs; hand painted white steel forms a perfect cube with 480 hand drilled holes. Upon installation the cube will be set tilted and the perfectly symmetrical space will be transformed. From a solid state underfoot to one of a nameless liquid form; Midnight blue refracting light from a self-bent neon arc. Pilscheur has created something of stature from the pieces of everyday norm and viewing, but pieces that will test the very balance of the minds equilibrium.
This will not be the work for the faint hearted, so while Pilscheur steps back to breathe and admire a pinnacle in her career.
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source: katinkapilscheur
I was drawn to Katinka Pilscheur at the very beginning; I knew we had something in common. From the moment I saw power tools and materials piled in wait, I knew: this was my childhood. The soft metal memories of mine, bent into an arc of energy; the suffering of hard labour but the joy and understanding of a true days work. The destruction and rebirth of Berlin’s scenes of construction. The wait for something spectacular and the result of something mundane. As we up look at the ivory tower of glass and metal only to feel dismay, lower your eyes; change lies at the very core and center of being. Change is more than the world
building up around us. Pilscheur captures still shots of seemingly benign pieces of the whole and cages them. She is tempting the viewer to irritate these faux animals to see what they are really made of. She will create an unease in our legs; hand painted white steel forms a perfect cube with 480 hand drilled holes. Upon installation the cube will be set tilted and the perfectly symmetrical space will be transformed. From a solid state underfoot to one of a nameless liquid form; Midnight blue refracting light from a self-bent neon arc. Pilscheur has created something of stature from the pieces of everyday norm and viewing, but pieces that will test the very balance of the minds equilibrium. This will not be the work for the faint hearted, so while Pilscheur steps back to breathe and admire a pinnacle in her career.
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source: artparasites
Katinka Pilscheur: born in Herdecke an der Ruhr and now lives and works in Berlin. An artist not afraid to go big, her work has seen her take architectural inspirations from Cuba and her everyday surroundings.