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The artwork features a striking visual composition with bold, contrasting colors and shapes. The backdrop is a vibrant purple hue, evoking a sense of movement and fluidity. Prominent in the center is a large, irregularly shaped red form, resembling a map or landmass. Resting atop this shape is an intriguing, organic object, its rugged texture and warm tone creating an intriguing juxtaposition. The overall style is abstract and conceptual, inviting the viewer to contemplate the interplay between the elements and their potential symbolic or political meanings, as suggested by the title "Europa: Integrationspolitik (1945-1975)." ...
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Olga Balema
B.1984, Ukrainian/BritishOlga Balema’s artworks are an investigation of form. They are characterised by a tense relationship and contrasts in materiality, often comprising a hard framework with soft, fragile innards. Balema frequently employs latex which, especially in Bread for Life (2016), is held taut and barbed by jagged steel rods, or perhaps armatures, recalling Eva Hesse’s postminimalist practice and the slow sagging of the material over time. The notion of tension – perhaps most commonly, representations of the contrast between the hard bones of a human skeleton and the flesh that furnishes it – are further echoed in the rubber bands and shoelaces plotting a geometry across the gallery floor in brain damage (2019), the teetering globules of latex, moulded to look like breasts, protruding from the globe in 2016’s Globe, tacked on unsteadily, and the soft PVC sacks filled with steel rods and water, ready to burst, in Threat to Civilization 2 (2015). ...
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Hannah Hoffman Gallery
Los AngelesHannah Hoffman, Los Angeles opened in May 2013. The gallery maintains a program of international contemporary artists alongside historical exhibitions with a particular focus on feminist and conceptual practices.