Katinka Bock
born in 1976 in Frankfurt a. M., Germany; lives in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France
Untitled, 2021
bronze cast
25 × 25 × 15 cm
Acquisition evn collection 2021
Inv. No. 0445
This small object is an add-on to the wallpaper Alex Pompeii by Katinka Bock. Commissioned in 2021 by the evn collection, it features an abstract motif of fleeting contours and lines. In fact, the wallpaper is based on a black-and-white photograph of a T-shirt taken in Pompeii in the summer of 2021. When optically enlarged, however, the non-representational folded elements evoke marble paintings, trompe-l’œil depictions of “real” marble—thus establishing a connection to the ancient city, so deeply imbued by history The object continues the wallpaper’s motif of imprint. Katinka Bock pours bronze into the shell of a lemon from Capri—the mold burns away, leaving the fruit’s body as a unique imprint full of traces of the organic. When viewed, the form becomes an artifact outside of any temporality: Traces of embers evoke the Italian summer heat, but also the many thousands of artifacts and human lives buried under ash in Pompeii in 79 AD. The Visualization of time, traces of the unique, but also the precise observation and arrangement within space are among the essential elements of Katinka Bock’s artistic practice.continue reading
Text: Heike Maier-Rieper, 2021
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