Artists

Frauke Dannert

Press release

Fingers seem to reach for something elusive. Their silhouettes fall across the wall like shadows, evoking ghostly hands in negative form. They echo small-format paper collages in which graphite-coloured shapes drift, seemingly without direction. The pictorial space resembles the diffuse darkness of thought before words begin to form, or the primal chaos before physical forces came into being. Spaces where anything is possible because they resist fixed definition. Through the artistic process of frottage, real forms press themselves into the collages, flashing up as strangely familiar fragments that reassemble into entirely new constellations – a fragmented reality.

Frauke Dannert (b.1979 in Herdecke, Germany) lives and works at Cologne.

The genesis of Dannert’s practice lies in her interest in the architectural space and the medium of collage. Through this she dissects architecture, examining it as to its sculptural potential and produces creations that oscillate between the organic and the architectonic, illusion and reality. Within her collage practice Dannert creates the initial compositions and then replicates them using a photocopier. By reducing the photocopies to black, white and grey tones she distances the works from the original material reality and alienates spaces and the viewers experience of the space.

Her work can be found in many institutional collections including Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Kunstsammlung Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt; and Sammlung Kunst aus NRW (Kornelimünster), Aachen.