Insect of the year  (Ameisenlöwe)

Jonathan Penca

Insect of the year (Ameisenlöwe), 201034.7 x 23.5cmSign in to view price
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gouache and ink on cardboardDeborah Schamoni
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This artwork features a unique and captivating visual style. The dominant colors are a soft mint green and a striking yellow, which create a vibrant contrast. The central figure appears to be a stylized, abstracted insect or other creature, with a bulbous body composed of numerous small, dotted patterns. The overall composition has a sense of balance and symmetry, drawing the viewer's attention to the central motif. The artist's use of textured and layered elements suggests an exploration of materiality and process. The work likely examines themes of nature, metamorphosis, or the relationship between organic and inorganic forms, reflecting the artist's distinctive contemporary visual language. ...

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Jonathan Penca
Artist
Jonathan Penca
B.1988, German

Jonathan Penca works in diverse media such as drawing, sculpture, performance and video. Penca’s interest in stage and costume design and dramaturgy resonates in his artistic practice in the negotiation of boundaries between reality and staging. Influences from and deliminations between natural science, pop culture and science fiction offer subjects to reflect on the relation between queer and fluid embodiment as subversive moment and late-capitalist individualization. His sculptures are at times animated, also in collaborative settings. Penca’s manifold approaches have in common that they defer oppositions between the natural and the artificial, or the actor and the represented, until their dissolving. In his works, the artist – also through excessive scales – opens up double-edged, ambiguous spaces, within which the dilemma between in- and hyper visibility are negotiated playfully and the viewer is invited to partake. ...

Jonathan Penca: Artworks
Insect of the year  (Ameisenlöwe)
Jonathan Penca
Insect of the year (Ameisenlöwe), 2010
34.7 x 23.5cm
Insect of the year  (Steinhummel)
Jonathan Penca
Insect of the year (Steinhummel), 2005
33.6 x 26.7cm
Insect of the year  (Silbergrüner Bläuling)
Jonathan Penca
Insect of the year (Silbergrüner Bläuling), 2015
37 x 26.5 x 13.5cm
T.B.A (Wespen blumen)
Jonathan Penca
T.B.A (Wespen blumen), 2019
30 x 24cm
Ammophone
Jonathan Penca
Ammophone, 2022
44 x 34cm
Orb
Misplacing the 13th Century
Jonathan Penca
Misplacing the 13th Century, 2024
61 x 46cm
Znout
Monitor Q
Jonathan Penca
Monitor Q, 2024
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Monitor T
Jonathan Penca
Monitor T, 2024
27 x 19cm
Terrore nello spazio
Jonathan Penca
Terrore nello spazio, 2024
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Slupan
Autonomous, connected & sustainable
Jonathan Penca
Autonomous, connected & sustainable, 2024
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Fossil barn protecting in situ displays
Jonathan Penca
Fossil barn protecting in situ displays, 2024
23 x 31cm
Reticulated Siren
Jonathan Penca
Reticulated Siren, 2024
23 x 31cm
Delivery
Fish-lizard
Jonathan Penca
Fish-lizard, 2024
34 x 27cm
Deborah Schamoni
Gallery
Deborah Schamoni
Munich

Deborah Schamoni is a contemporary art gallery based in Munich, Germany. Situated in a 1970s villa, the gallery is able to offer its artists a spacious white cube, flooded with daylight and opening up to a greened outdoor area, as well as an independent smaller room. Since its founding in 2013, the gallery has focused on showing and supporting emerging international artists and it presents an exceptional program that unites international positions with a subversive and self-reflexive approach to art making considering the complexity of human coexistence. The gallery often stages the first shows of upcoming international artists in Germany. The program is developing a distinct profile with artists like Maryam Hoseini, Yong Xiang Li, and Flaka Haliti, who investigate the sociopolitical conditions of queer identity and gender, and share a diasporic experience in their works. Beyond its international focus, the gallery has been playing an important part in establishing Munich as a prominent destination for contemporary art and its discourses. ...

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