Dreams save us. Dreams uplift us and transform us. And by my soul, I swear ... Until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice are a reality we all share ... I will never stop fighting. Always.
BURN-IN plays from October 2022 to January 2023 for the fourth time the traditional department store Gerngross in Vienna. This time they guest on the 2nd floor and show three fixed stars of the gallery, the protagonists Ellen Semen (A), Tiziana Trezzi (I) and Aurora CID (E). Three strong, highly authentic artists, three superwomen who relentlessly hold up a mirror to society. Trezzi focuses on women and their position in society, CID links the beauty and relevance of nature and geometry, and Semen analyzes global conflicts, emerging as a sensitive, seismographic storyteller.
Cyberwoman, Ellen Semen
Opening by gallery owner Sonja Dolzer. BURN-IN is pleased to welcome artist Ellen Semen.
Ellen Semen's large format in oil on canvas It goes no more Superman must her from 2007 describes the current mood in clear visual language. Full of longing, it flirts with the hero and presents a modern Robin Hood, who fights for the good and acts as a tireless troubleshooter. If you fathom the history of the character, it also reveals itself as an exponent of the free world during the Cold War - keyword Justice League. What a parallel to the current political situation. Only one striking difference remains: the shifting of the blocks. With the two nature-loving avatars Cyberwoman and Cyberman Semen already anticipated the metaverse in 2010 and provokes since then with her figurative painting, in which she superficially says veles through the flower, but in essence always shows developments with sharpness and clarity.
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Already in 2019, Tiziana Trezzi showed at BURN-IN the exhibition Imprints of life - the female perspective. The master of chromatology inspires with her surrealist and hyperrealist works. She skillfully conceives formal spaces in evocative paintings and underpins them with expressive messages. Parallels to Frieda Kahlo open up. Both tell of the very personal imprints, the traces of life and those of society on the protagonists. In this way, both describe with stylistic confidence the beauties, but also the cruelties from their own personal, female perspective. Both suffer threatening illnesses and strokes of fate, master them with bravura and enter strengthened new artistic terrain. This is particularly well demonstrated in the extant works Serenity, The Two Ages, and The Newcomer. Trezzi draws the female perspective with a high degree of painterly sophistication and represents the proud Italian version of Superwoman.
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With the Spanish Aurora CID, a master of sculptural extraction completes the exhibition. She came from architectural geometry to natural geometry, affirmed for herself the transition from computational geometry to random geometry. The artist oscillates between the geometry in architecture and the geometry of nature, playing with sameness and difference, calculation and chance, continuity and variation, dynamics and tension, creating a unique S extraction the exhibition. She came from architectural geometry to the geometry of nature, affirmed for herself the transition from the geometry of calculation to the geometry of chance. The artist oscillates between geometry in architecture and geometry in nature, playing with sameness and difference, calculation and chance, continuity and variation, dynamism and tension, creating a unique mood that is impossible to escape. Mandelbrot's fractals are an elementary part of her work. In the exhibition, CID shows us musical geometries at their best, presenting the works Symphonies 1 - 4 and the sculptures Los Pliegues del Tiempo and Plegados I + II. An eloquent superwoman with a sense of mathematical purism and an interdisciplinary thinker in the field of art and science. A Spanish role model of a very special kind.
There is a superhero in each of us, we just need the courage to put on the cape.
