Darren Almond's work examines recurring themes of time, memory, human labor and exploitation. Published for Almond's solo exhibition at London's Parasol Unit, Index is a book in two parts. The first catalogues the exhibition, while the second provides a retrospective of the artist's work to date. Almond is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Der Katalog präsentiert Kunstwerke von zwölf internationalen Künstlern, die sich in ihrem Schaffen von Paraden und Prozessionen inspirieren lassen. Die Arbeiten reichen von Skulpturen, Installationen, Filmen und Videos. Sie stellen kraftvolle Ausdrucksformen dar, die jeweils unterschiedliche historische, kulturelle oder politische Zusammenhänge zu erkennen geben.
on the occasion of the exhibition Streifzüge : Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art 21 June-29 July 2006
The up-and-coming Leipzig painter David Schnell (b. 1971) employs elements of landscape in all of his edgy, large-scale canvases, but he is by no means a traditional landscape painter. A younger contemporary of Neo Rauch and Tim Eitel, Schnell uses oils, tempera and acrylics to render obsessive spaces that often feel as if they might engulf the viewer. Relying on very strong linear perspective and vanishing points to create his idiosyncratic pictorial order, where even the trees are perfectly straight vertical forms, he often seems to counteract that very order with a subliminal, hyperactive energy that buzzes through the paintings--perhaps suggesting a critical stance towards our treatment of nature in contemporary society.