ART COLOGNE 2024

COLLABORATIONS: GÜNTER BRUS  ANYA BELYAT-GIUNTA  ZENITA KOMAD

ART COLOGNE 7. – 10. November 2024

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The proposed collaboration “Writing Through Drawing” builds off Günter Brus’ concept of the “Bild-Dichtung” a synthesis of language and image, in which the two forms of expression are not mutually dependent. The text does not explain the image and the drawing is not an illustration of the text. Brus’ inspiration was William Blake’s „Illuminated Manuscripts “ which became the model for his own work.

For Art Cologne Collaborations, we join Brus’ literary approach to drawing with Anya Belyat-Giunta & Zenita Komad two artists from the gallery program who also use similar image/text approaches to their work.

Komad is known for her collages that merge images and text by reframing historical or everyday pictures into a complex dialogue in what she refers to as „moments of correction, as recipes and instructions for happiness”.

Belyat-Giunta’s drawings hover between reality and myth, past and present, matter and the invisible, the word and the figurative. She traces a dream-like world where the unknown is reflected in shifting faces and landscapes. When using text in her drawings she often shifts between Russian and English, perhaps the languages she dreams in.

Both Belyat-Giunta and Komad’s drawings and collages are full of bodies and the psychological dreams and traumas that contain them and circle back to Brus’ early performative Actions. The body is a sacred vessel containing a multiplicity of histories and symbols.