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For Immediate Release Kim Lieberman Exhibition Dates: Catalogue available Contact Information: Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm |
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Jennifer Bacon and Filippo Fossati are pleased to announce the opening at Esso gallery of the second solo show by South African artist, Kim Lieberman. “The mystery of co-existence and interdependence is a key concept in Lieberman’s current body of work, which grapples with the idea of Human Currents. "Current is the carrier of energy. A current can pass from person to person, it can be received gently or wildly, it can attract or repel" she says. "Human interaction is like a live wire of crisscrossing currents/circuits, pushing, pulling, feeding off each other." In her earlier work, Lieberman uses the white postage stamp sheet as a canvas. She depicts silhouette figures on the postage stamp paper with her signature silk thread woven and stitched through the perforations of the paper. Inspired by Victorian patterns and William Morris textile and wallpaper designs, she delicately applies arabesque or the branch-like lines around the figures, which apparently acts as the metaphor of the human currents and auras interacting across the time and continent. In her latest work the postage paper sheet is now replaced by a puzzle. The puzzle as the medium of her work has a strong relation with the potage stamp sheet. She states, “As with the potage stamps, in which the perforations link and separate the individual stamps and puzzles are also individual bits that are part of fitted whole.” If one fragment of the event is missed out, the story will lose the whole meaning of it. Lieberman’s work encompasses the elements of mystery, alchemy, spirituality, a human disposition, science, a natural phenomenon, numerology and aesthetics. Whatever Lieberman tells a story in a visual content, her essential concern, the connectivity of human currents, is evident in every single work. Her work brings awareness that nothing can be separated from each other. Everything in the world from a human being to an insect, from winds in one land to raindrop in the other land is all connected. In the show, Human Currents, Lieberman’s sensitivity to see the mystery or forgotten truth greatly resonates. Kim Lieberman lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds an MA (Fine Arts Degree) from the Witwatersrand University (2001). She has had solo exhibitions at Esso Gallery, New York City, NY (2004), the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2003), Camouflage Art Culture Politics, Johannesburg (2000), the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town, South Africa (1997), the Civic Gallery, Johannesburg (1995) and has been included in numerous group exhibitions internationally. Four catalogues / monographs have been published on her work and her exhibitions have been widely reviewed. |
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