Martina Jenne

"The horse and the flies"  

Duration: 4.2. - 27.2.1998 

one of many flies

The cuba foyer presents a special challenge for the young artists who exhibit there, in that it is not a place that is immediately "suitable" for art exhibitions. It is certainly not a white cube, has absolutely no museum atmosphere, and is therefore not the perfect room for for the perfect exhibition of autonomous artworks. Therefore, we're so much the luckier that young Münsteraner artists accept the challenge of using the foyer not as a place to simply put their already-finished works on display, but instead, as an opportunity to find their own, individual answers to the spatial situation.

After the fragile photography of Jürgen Mack in December of last year, Münster-based Martina Jenne will show a contrast-rich photography exhibit in February, 1998. For her conceptualized interior, Jenne uses stark black-&-white photos of flies and other insects, contrasted with a color-drenched poster of a horse. Together, they create the illusion of a stall -- a  typical scene familiar to most Münster residents. However, the familiar becomes strange and almost threatening, through the artist's choice of "wrong" proportions, exaggerated contrast, and her mixture of nightmarish black-&-white objects and dream-like colors. The space becomes not an illusion of a horse-stall, but its hallucination.

Martina Jenne, born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1973, has studied since 1994 at the Kunstakademie Münster. She took part in Professor Bandau's class exhibition at the Herz Jesu Church in Cologne (1997), and the Förderpreis Exhibition at the City Exhibition Hall at the Hawerkamp, Münster (1997).

The reception accompanying the photo installation "The horse and the flies" by Martina Jenne will take place on Wednesday, February 4, at 7 p.m. in the cuba foyer. The exhibtion will run from Feb. 4 - 27, and is open daily from 10 a.m. through 6 p.m.

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