Art
Silke Otto-Knapp: Interiors
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - Saturday, February 20, 2010
In Silke Otto-Knapp’s new works rooms, screens (partitions, windows,paintings within paintings) and stages together form a picture of what painting could be as a space of appearance: spaces become screens; screens become paintings; paintings become stages. As figures and their backdrops emerge from colours and surfaces these painted forms reveal themselves to be exactly what they are, while exploring the settings in which women have appeared and performed throughout the history of modernity.
A figure around which a number of the scenarios converge is Florine Stettheimer: painter and host to salons in the apartment on West 58th Street shared by her and her sisters in the 1920s and 30s.
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