RELIEF

RELIEF can be located between sculpture and painting. Created from a surface or a body, it stands out plastically from the background, figurative or abstract-ornamental. The group exhibition RELIEF at "B-Part Exhibition" shows various current groups of works with reliefs, which show references to architecture, to the urban, to spatial concepts, but which also refer to each other through the material and form used. The play of light and shadow as well as apparent movements in the works, generated by their own change of position in the exhibition space, allow the relief to emerge as a contemporary form of artistic expression. Through the serial presentation, through the interplay of the works, RELIEF explores new definitions of the genre, distinguishing itself from sculpture or expanding it. A frieze emerges:

In her works - often wall reliefs -Amalia Valdés investigates, among other things, geometric and space-producing aspects of grids. In the encounter with her works, which are here matt, there shiny, then reflective, the viewers become active observers who perceive changes in form, color, and light according to their perspective and the position of their bodies - as in her "inverted" mirror relief "Morgenstern," which expands space into an "inside."

Rüdiger Lange

(loop - raum für aktuelle kunst). Curator and artistic director of the B-Part Exhibition.