Exhibition view EVA-FIORE KOVACOVSKY
Exhibition view EVA-FIORE KOVACOVSKY
Exhibition view EVA-FIORE KOVACOVSKY
Exhibition view EVA-FIORE KOVACOVSKY
Exhibition view EVA-FIORE KOVACOVSKY
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky Blattkiste, 2013
MDF, painted, plant parts
130 x 30 x 30 cm
Unique piece
EVA-FIORE KOVACOVSKY
Transmutations
7. September 2013
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26. October 2013
Transmutations
In her artistic work, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky is dealing with the phenomenon of flora which is collected and used by her as material for her photographs and collages. She abstracts, manipulates, arranges and reproduces plant parts, generating artworks that question our subjective perception. The artist gets inspired by old reproduction techniques, scientific classification systems, the photographic experiments of the 19th century and contemporary methods, such as the inkjet printer and the photocopy, which are introduced into her work in a playful way.
For her new series of Photograms (2011-2013), Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky had collected leaves in Emmental in Switzerland, Lithuania and the Netherlands and exposed them like negatives in an analogue colour darkroom in Berlin. In doing so, she manipulated the prints by varying colour screen combinations, double exposures and movements of the paper. The leaves, perforated by beetle attacks, were partly enlarged so much that these holes emerge as abstract forms. This results in images on the verge of recognisability which, at the same time, have a performing aspects as they reveal their own origin. The darkroom gives room to experiment and chance. The artist is interested in the way how these associative working processes generate new ideas and change the picture language constantly. She examines the formal language of the leaves and transforms them to almost psychedelic enhancements of her consciousness: "I want the obsessive that ist very much part of the Photograms to be clearly perceptible by the viewer."
Presenting them in combination with 'botanical showcases', in which the plant models of her Photograms are staged as objects, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky creates her own universe of orientation by nature, abstraction, wilderness and fragility.