Kreuzberg, Berlin
Group Exhibition
Fictional Syntheses
Kraupa-Tuskany ZeidlerLouis Eisner, Brett Ginsburg, Guan Xiao, Brook Hsu, Katja Novitskova, Carol Rhodes, Nicolás García Uriburu Fictional Syntheses features practices exploring non-canonical approaches to landscape. The exhibition builds upon the Coloration series that Nicolás García Uriburu carried out between 1968 in Venice and 2011 in Bremen. He dyed canals, rivers, fountains and lakes with Fluorescein, an organic and ecologically harmless dye developed by NASA, dramatically altering the look of the urban landscape to raise awareness of environmental crises, and consequently the connection between nature and civilization. Touching on environmental issues, natural resources, the urban infrastructure and materializing in distinguished formal resolutions by means of chemical reactions, this series of works allows for pertinent and expansive connections with the practices of positions from the gallery program such as Brett Ginsburg, Guan Xiao, Brook Hsu and Katja Novitskova, as well as those of Carol Rhodes and Louis Eisner.