{"id":185,"date":"2020-03-17T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transfiguring.net\/?post_type=artiste&p=185"},"modified":"2020-04-07T19:09:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:09:33","slug":"ulrike-bolenz","status":"publish","type":"artiste","link":"https:\/\/www.transfiguring.net\/en\/artiste\/ulrike-bolenz\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulrike Bolenz"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0kaleidoscopic depths of the image<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0We\u00a0live in a commercial visual culture in which competitors\u00a0struggle for the attention of viewer and consumer. The artist is\u00a0no longer a privileged producer\u00a0of images. What is the point\u00a0in his isolating himself and keeping aloof or trying\u00a0to vie with\u00a0an industry of fake experiences that is only too happy to make use\u00a0of senseless and super-fast sequences of images? The spectacular\u00a0takes precedence\u00a0and the unusual and odd, which until now have\u00a0been visual resources\u00a0used specifically by artists, are being\u00a0abused. The latest digital technology\u00a0means fiction far surpasses\u00a0any reality: there are no longer replicas of a reality\u00a0but\u00a0simulacra in a virtual world which have granted themselves the\u00a0status of\u00a0reality.<\/p>\n

Ulrike Bolenz, who is thoroughly aware of\u00a0this topical question of the\u00a0image, has developed a highly\u00a0individual body of work that lies somewhere between\u00a0tradition and\u00a0experiment. Her works are extremely fascinating to look at\u00a0because\u00a0they show and conceal themselves simultaneously. This visual strategy\u00a0is the result of a very personal process of realisation in\u00a0which a variety of\u00a0visual resources play a part. The\u00a0starting points are usually what she herself has\u00a0captured in\u00a0photos or, in most cases, on video. These images are chemically and\u00a0digitally manipulated and only assume a definitive form when\u00a0they have passed\u00a0through a complete cycle. The artist\u00a0ultimately transfers them onto transparent\u00a0supports, some of\u00a0which can be distorted, and preferably presents them in a\u00a0spatially specific setting. The initial record is not only\u00a0fragmented and brought\u00a0to a standstill, but also seems to\u00a0have been eroded by time, with both sharp\u00a0and hazy sections, and\u00a0ultimately appears like volatile a ghostly image that lies\u00a0somewhere between order and chaos, and shouts out its\u00a0powerlessness in utter silence. Ulrike Bolenz offers us fragments\u00a0of stories, but she speaks in halfwords,\u00a0erasing traces as if she\u00a0wanted to keep an unspoken secret concealed.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Florent Bex<\/em><\/p>\n

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To know more about\u00a0Ulrike Bolenz’s work \u00a0><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0www.ulrike.bolenz.de<\/a><\/p>\n

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Works presented here:<\/span><\/p>\n

Installation\u00a0Cloning<\/em>, Ulrike Bolenz,\u00a02011,\u00a0techniques photographiques sur verre acrylique, couleur\u00a0acrylique<\/span>
\n250 x 250 x 100 cm<\/span><\/p>\n

Installation\u00a0Frauenraub-Rubens-kontrair<\/em>, Ulrike Bolenz, 2012,\u00a0techniques photographiques sur verre\u00a0acrylique, couleur acrylique<\/span>
\n200 x 250 x 30 cm<\/span><\/p>\n

Installation\u00a0M\u00e4nnergruppe<\/em>, Ulrike Bolenz, 2013,\u00a0techniques photographiques sur verre acrylique,\u00a0couleur acrylique<\/span>
\n250 x 250 x 100 cm<\/span><\/p>\n

Installation\u00a0S\u00e4ule<\/em>, Ulrike Bolenz, 2013,techniques photographiques sur verre acrylique,\u00a0200 x 150 x 30 cm,\u00a0<\/span>
\net\u00a0Geh\u00f6rnt, Ulrike Bolenz,\u00a02013,\u00a0peinture<\/span><\/p>\n

Peinture\u00a0Mensch-Fossil<\/em>, Ulrike Bolenz, 2011,\u00a0techniques photographiques, couleur acrylique<\/span>
\net installation\u00a0Kariatiden, Ulrike Bolenz, 2012,techniques photographiques sur verre acrylique, couleur acrylique<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0kaleidoscopic depths of the image \u00ab\u00a0We\u00a0live in a commercial visual culture in which competitors\u00a0struggle for the attention of viewer and consumer. The artist is\u00a0no longer a privileged producer\u00a0of images. What is the point\u00a0in his isolating himself and keeping aloof or trying\u00a0to vie with\u00a0an industry of fake experiences that is only too happy to make use\u00a0of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":174,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transfiguring.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transfiguring.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transfiguring.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artiste"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transfiguring.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.transfiguring.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste\/185\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transfiguring.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transfiguring.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}