Eröffnung: 11. November 2023, ab 18 Uhr
Vanessa Conte (*1977) ist eine US-amerikanische Malerin, Autorin und Comiczeichnerin, die in Los Angeles, Kalifornien, lebt und arbeitet. Sie nutzt ihre Malerei und visuelle Erzählkunst, um komplexe Beziehungen zum menschlichen Körper darzustellen, indem sie extreme Bewegungen und Verzerrungen des Fleisches visualisiert. Conte erhielt ihren Master of Fine Arts an der University of California, Los Angeles. Ihre Gemälde und Zeichnungen wurden international ausgestellt, unter anderem im Kunstmuseum Baden, der Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, dem Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, und HESTER, New York City. Ihre Comics wurden von Random Man Editions, New York, innen, Zürich und der Kunsthalle Lüneberg veröffentlicht.
Zu sehen sein werden Zeichnungen und Malereien, die in den vergangenen drei Jahren entstanden sind. Die großformatigen Ölmalereien wurden von Vanessa Conte eigens für den kunstbunker entwickelt. Die Ausstellung wird von Eva Raschpichler kuratiert. Eine kleine Publikation erscheint Anfang Dezember.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Kulturreferats der Stadt Nürnberg, der zumikon-Kulturstiftung und der Kost-Pocher’schen Stiftung.
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Opening November 11 2023, from 6pm
Vanessa Conte (*1977) is an American painter, writer, and comics-maker who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She uses her painting and visual storytelling practices to present complex relationships with the human body, visualizing extreme movements and distortions of the flesh. Conte received her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has exhibited her paintings and drawings internationally, including at the Kunstmuseum Baden, Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, and HESTER, New York City. Her comics have been published by Random Man Editions, New York, innen, Zürich, and Kunsthalle Lüneberg.
On display will be drawings and paintings created over the past three years. The large-format oil paintings were developed by Vanessa Conte especially for the kunstbunker. The show was curated by Eva Raschpichler. A small publication will be released in early December.
With the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Nuremberg, the zumikon-Kulturstiftung and the Kost-Pocher`sche Stiftung.
I am attracted and embarrassed by the playful and detailed style of your pencil drawings and your self confident and sensitive way of showing these scenes that confuse me. For me your depictipon of domination, force, deformation of the body and desire alongside brutality is very powerful because the offender is an unknown character. I can well imagine your work at the kunstbunker because of the function and character of the space. As a former WW II Bunker and NBC shelter it was used to provide protection against a faceless force. But it is not an intimate hiding place: With its 500 m2, thick concrete walls, heavy steeldoors and facilities of the Luftschutz it is an impersonal place. It Is situated directly under a large parking lot and in use as a center of activities and exhibitions since the early 90s.
Saaltext von Moritz Scheper (pdf)
