Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

KATHARINA GROSSE
Ellipse
11 September, 2010 — 16 January, 2011

Berlin-based artist Katha­ri­na Grosse will ex­hib­it a large out­door piece at the Quadri­en­nale 2010 in Düssel­dorf. The painter, who stud­ied in Düssel­dorf and re­cent­ly be­came a pro­fes­sor at the city's
art acade­my, en­joys in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion in the art world.
Her work will take the form of a fu­tur­is­tic over­sized, domed el­lipse, which will be placed, as if by chance, near St John's Church in the Düssel­dorf city cen­tre. Pedes­tri­ans will sud­den­ly be con­front­ed with a bright­ly coloured, sculp­ture-like paint­ing, which has on­ly pre­vi­ous­ly been ex­hib­it­ed in­doors. The paint­ing has been spray
paint­ed on per­fo­rat­ed hard foam in Grosse's dis­tinc­tive style. Not on­ly does its wild burst of colour chal­lenge view­ers' per­cep­tions of colour, light and space, it in­vites them to think about the bound­aries of ar­chi­tec­ture, sculp­ture, im­ages and ob­jects.