Contemporary sport is art for everyone,
is the popular art of our time.Wolfgang Welsch, German philosopher | Kunstforum
In August 2020, German painter Martina Hamrik will be a guest at BURN-IN Gallery with her iconic, three-dimensional works. She captivates the viewer with a very special aesthetic and grace of the protagonists, manifested in the iconic moves of athletic bodies. With the unique, patented Schlaufenbildern (loop paintings) (2014), the artist wraps an enormous plasticity in the works, creating deep reliefs that provide a perfect backdrop for the dynamic athletes.
Hamrik deliberately chooses sports that thrive on aesthetics and rhythm. The choreographic, the playful is in the foreground and creates with the protagonists (power and technique) a very attractive, sensual dynamic that captivates the viewer. She transports with a unique lightness the incomparable beauty of ballet, high diving, golf, running, cycling, beach volleyball, swimming and sailing and underlines this with a highly dynamic application of paint. She thus develops sporting cult objects that allow the viewer to experience exclusively the pleasurable and aesthetic sides of sport.
Iconic Moves
In an article in Kunstforum, German philosopher Wolfgang Welsch examines common and divisive aspects of art and sport and comes to some really interesting, and for some certainly unexpected, conclusions. So he sees the contemporary sport as the art for everyone, sport as popular art of our time.
In particular, he compares sporting events with performing arts and emphasizes the uniqueness of sport through the peculiarity of the event, virtually the drama without a script, the epic sporting event, when after 5-hour match Nadal wins against Federer, Tiger Woods returns to the throne after laborious rehabilitation. The spectator identifies himself, enjoys the spectacle of the sport and succumbs to the attraction of the comparison. They love the crowd pullers and admire the stars' performances. In addition to the dramatic, the aesthetic and erotic naturally play an important role. Contemporary sport thrives on the perfectly staged bodies, which are true works of art in their own right.
Hamrik tells us with her SPORTY LOOPS stories of the most diverse sporting obsessions and manages masterfully to stop time for a brief moment to capture the dynamic movement forever.
A sensual, sporty spectacle of contemporary art.
BURN-IN will represent Hamrik beginning in August 2020.
BURN-IN ART features
In August, we additionally present work by Ares Yannakopoulos and DG Smalling (Choctaw- Indian | Exhibition Pluralism 8/2016), whom we met as part of our USA Lecture Series on Art-Branding and Creative Placemaking in Oklahoma City.
