Umstülpungen
Alfredo Ramos, the photographer and Katarzyna Badach, the painter thematize in their exhibition “Umpülpungen” the inner states of urban landscape between figuration and abstraction, photography and painting.
The exhibition Umstülpungen (EN: Inversion) thematize the inner states of the urban landscape between figuration and abstraction, photography and painting.
Alfredo Ramos and Katarzyna Badach, the photographer and the painter, juxtapose their own perception of urban space with that of the other. Apart from the primarily different media and visual languages, seemingly opposing positions are brought into a dialogue with one another. For both artists the transformation or turning inside out of an inner state into an outer one is in the foreground. The exhibition, designed as a dialogue, reveals the similarities in how Badach and Ramos perceive and view space.
Katarzyna Badach describes her work as
…a Strategy against a state of mind in which the dogma of efficiency, profitability and monotony in consumer behaviour develops instead of complexity and adventure.
Katarzyna Badach
Badach’s oil paintings are based on in situ aquarelles. They are created in urban transition zones and niches which have not been planned by urban planners and which are generally not considered desirable. The main focus of her works is the possibility to change the object of perception just through the regard, whereby a new reality is created.
Alfredo Ramos uses pre-fabricated concepts of beauty to delude the viewer and to draw attention onto manifestations of collective meaninglessness in public spaces. Point of origin are moments in which the border between the individual and the public are melting together. Ramos shows masses on their search for satisfaction. His guiding motifs are foredoomed rituals of modern people on the run from their inner emptiness and narrowness of their own existence. He portraits the traces of these attempts to escape and captures the underlying Illusions by playing with rhythms of repetitive forms and figures in his photographs.
