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Jutta Kallfelz, Kun Zhang, Seet van Hout

Seductive flames
Seductive, fiery, and flaming are the pieces of the three artists spotlighted in this exhibition. 

The series of works by the Dutch artist Seet van Hout (1957 - Nijmegen) is inspired by a colorful version of the Martin Luther bible from 1534, published by Taschen, with woodcuts from the painter's workshop of Lucas Cranach. This Luther Bible marks the beginning of Protestantism and the prints are full of criticism of Rome and the Pope. The series of paintings by Seet van Hout After L.C. is a contemporary, free translation of elements and motifs from this bible. Seet van Hout links flames and conflagration, beauty and Biblical scenes with embroidery and paint into contemporary seductive paintings.

Jutta Kallfelz’s (1975 - Arnsberg, Germany) fire is at least to be sensed through her photos. This new group of brooches represents seven rabbits with names of people and flowers: Richard, Aster, Black Lilly, Fiver, Rupert, Roxy, and Paula. Like medieval altar and saints statue masters, Jutta Kallfelz carves her refined images by hand; no other than human energy involved. These seven rabbits are very much realistic, with beautifully shiny, smooth, soft skin. At the same time, these animals have chopped bodies without heads, legs, and tails as if they had been slaughtered or partially fled into the earth they normally jump around in. Jutta Kallfelz confronts us with beautiful borders and limits.

The Chinese Kun Zhang (1990 - Beijing, China) is the youngest, but not the least fiery of the trio. Her small scale sculptures are, in all ways and from all perspectives, constructed by antithesis: massive form & transparent parts, flat & curves, movement & stillness, sharp & soft, polished & frayed. Kun Zhang makes fantastic abstract sculptures where solid pedestals and fragile pins play the first fiddle. This artist forces us, the audience, the beholder, to focus on both the presence and the absence of material.

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