im Haus mitten auf dem Weg - by ZULTSETSEG Narantsogt
09 - 24 April 2022
B Contemporary Art Gallery
09 - 24 April 2022
B Contemporary Art Gallery
House in the middle of the road - solo exhibition by Zultsetseg.N
Замын Дундах Байшин - Н.Зулцэцэгийн бие даасан үзэсгэлэн.
Замын Дундах Байшин - Н.Зулцэцэгийн бие даасан үзэсгэлэн.
im Haus mitten auf dem Weg
The art of printmaking can be dated back to the period of the great Renaissance, and one of the earliest candidates such as Albrecht Durer who pioneered the art of printmaking by using wood- block and copper plates made various religious altars as well as portraits in the late 15th century A.D. Then in the early 17th century the masters such as Van Dyke or Rembrandt reached the cli- max of the given medium with considerable technical accomplishments.
Zultsetseg Narantsogt multidisciplinary contemporary artist who focuses on painting, printmaking, and collages. In her recent work, she uses printmaking mixed media techniques such as wood- block, engraving, etching, and plate-lithography combined with various materials such as sand and acryl, which she combines in a conceptual as well as process-based way.
The exhibition title “Im Haus Mitten Auf Dem Weg” House In The Middle Of The Road was her graduate diploma exhibition at the Angenwandte University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. Her second solo exhibition in Mongolia provides an insight into the collectible memoir of her experi-
ence in Austria and the work of the artist today. Zultsetseg!s works evoke associations with her personal experiences, but also with the metamorphosis of mental changes during her expectancy of experiencing motherhood. Her intimate works on paper, on the other hand, are reminiscent of the depth-psychological procedure of the Rorschach test. In many cases, various emotions and multiple identities seem to populate her works.
Zultsetseg’s sources of inspiration condense natural images to their essentials and employ ab- stract yet rhythmic lines to construct a self-referential world with vividly composed elements. Ori- gin, awaiting, expectancy, and re-birth genres are just as important to her as the subversive spirit of one's life story narratives. The lively, colorful and humorous characterize Zultsetseg’s work as much as the archaic, dark, and mysterious. And it alludes not only to the fact that Zultsetseg transfers traditional techniques of printing into the present but also to her constant testing of the boundaries between abstraction and the figurative. It offers a glimpse of an artistic oeuvre that is characterized by precision, pleasure in experimentation, and unconventionality. Zultsetseg devel- ops her prints and mixed media works with the technique of plate-lithography, in which flexibility of drawing and printing from aluminum plates. Drawing using greasy materials, crayons, and tusche, images can be further developed using techniques of photocopy transfer, toner transfer, and monoprint transfer. It allows using offset photo plates that can also provide possibilities for integrating photographic material.
Due to the varying medium of the plate and their delicacy, the soft sketches mix and form a relief- like surface on which lines and colors flow into each other. Form, line, and material combine to create a pictorial experience in which the recognisability and blurriness of the contours are in an effective field of tension and give free rein to associations. Both the color and the material capti- vate with their independence and affect their very own substance. The works seem like mysteri- ous relics of an unknown culture and unfold both a strong physical and sensual presence. Her prints allow figures and abstract formations to appear and create a playful and absurd at- mosphere. Placenta, these seemingly animalistic figures appear in her works, questioning one's preconceived view on leaving behind attachment and expulsion of ourselves from aloof mundane frustrations. The magic of Zultsetseg!s hybrid figurations is hidden in their ambiguity, their beauty lies in their irritation.
On the border of the "uncanny” (Sigmund Freud), the strange can be discovered in the supposed- ly familiar; a printed image becomes an animistic figure or we indulge as a viewer to regain our consciousness. Are they abstract forms or anthropomorphic beings? Are they preconscious, con- scious, or unconscious? And finally: are we observing or being observed?
The art of printmaking can be dated back to the period of the great Renaissance, and one of the earliest candidates such as Albrecht Durer who pioneered the art of printmaking by using wood- block and copper plates made various religious altars as well as portraits in the late 15th century A.D. Then in the early 17th century the masters such as Van Dyke or Rembrandt reached the cli- max of the given medium with considerable technical accomplishments.
Zultsetseg Narantsogt multidisciplinary contemporary artist who focuses on painting, printmaking, and collages. In her recent work, she uses printmaking mixed media techniques such as wood- block, engraving, etching, and plate-lithography combined with various materials such as sand and acryl, which she combines in a conceptual as well as process-based way.
The exhibition title “Im Haus Mitten Auf Dem Weg” House In The Middle Of The Road was her graduate diploma exhibition at the Angenwandte University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. Her second solo exhibition in Mongolia provides an insight into the collectible memoir of her experi-
ence in Austria and the work of the artist today. Zultsetseg!s works evoke associations with her personal experiences, but also with the metamorphosis of mental changes during her expectancy of experiencing motherhood. Her intimate works on paper, on the other hand, are reminiscent of the depth-psychological procedure of the Rorschach test. In many cases, various emotions and multiple identities seem to populate her works.
Zultsetseg’s sources of inspiration condense natural images to their essentials and employ ab- stract yet rhythmic lines to construct a self-referential world with vividly composed elements. Ori- gin, awaiting, expectancy, and re-birth genres are just as important to her as the subversive spirit of one's life story narratives. The lively, colorful and humorous characterize Zultsetseg’s work as much as the archaic, dark, and mysterious. And it alludes not only to the fact that Zultsetseg transfers traditional techniques of printing into the present but also to her constant testing of the boundaries between abstraction and the figurative. It offers a glimpse of an artistic oeuvre that is characterized by precision, pleasure in experimentation, and unconventionality. Zultsetseg devel- ops her prints and mixed media works with the technique of plate-lithography, in which flexibility of drawing and printing from aluminum plates. Drawing using greasy materials, crayons, and tusche, images can be further developed using techniques of photocopy transfer, toner transfer, and monoprint transfer. It allows using offset photo plates that can also provide possibilities for integrating photographic material.
Due to the varying medium of the plate and their delicacy, the soft sketches mix and form a relief- like surface on which lines and colors flow into each other. Form, line, and material combine to create a pictorial experience in which the recognisability and blurriness of the contours are in an effective field of tension and give free rein to associations. Both the color and the material capti- vate with their independence and affect their very own substance. The works seem like mysteri- ous relics of an unknown culture and unfold both a strong physical and sensual presence. Her prints allow figures and abstract formations to appear and create a playful and absurd at- mosphere. Placenta, these seemingly animalistic figures appear in her works, questioning one's preconceived view on leaving behind attachment and expulsion of ourselves from aloof mundane frustrations. The magic of Zultsetseg!s hybrid figurations is hidden in their ambiguity, their beauty lies in their irritation.
On the border of the "uncanny” (Sigmund Freud), the strange can be discovered in the supposed- ly familiar; a printed image becomes an animistic figure or we indulge as a viewer to regain our consciousness. Are they abstract forms or anthropomorphic beings? Are they preconscious, con- scious, or unconscious? And finally: are we observing or being observed?
Exhibition Details
Title: im Haus mitten auf dem Weg - by ZULTSETSEG Narantsogt
Address: B studio of the Union of Mongolia's Artist's
Dates: 09 - 24 April 2022
Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday, 10:30am to 6pm
Admission: Free
For press information and images please contact:
Email: info@artavenue.mn
Title: im Haus mitten auf dem Weg - by ZULTSETSEG Narantsogt
Address: B studio of the Union of Mongolia's Artist's
Dates: 09 - 24 April 2022
Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday, 10:30am to 6pm
Admission: Free
For press information and images please contact:
Email: info@artavenue.mn