{"id":11334,"date":"2015-09-10T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2015-09-10T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T08:01:13","slug":"interview-anke-weyer-about-that-constant-crisis-management-called-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/09\/10\/interview-anke-weyer-about-that-constant-crisis-management-called-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Anke Weyer about that \u201cconstant crisis management&#8221; called painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11334 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/09\/10\/interview-anke-weyer-about-that-constant-crisis-management-called-painting\/aw004\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AW004-376x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11336\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11336'>\n\t\t\t\tAnke Weyer, Emulsified, 2015; oil and acrylic on canvas\n213,4 x 167,6 cm.\nCourtesy the artist and Office Baroque, Brussels.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/09\/10\/interview-anke-weyer-about-that-constant-crisis-management-called-painting\/aw002\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AW002-384x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11335\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11335'>\n\t\t\t\tAnke Weyer, ASAP Already, 2015;\u00a0\noil and acrylic on canvas, 203,2 x 170,2 cm. Courtesy the artist and Office Baroque, Brussels.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Along with the contemporary art fair taking place in April, the <\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">Brussels <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">gallery weekend in September is with no doubt the most important yearly celebration of the city<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">s art world branch. Started off with only a number of the galleries opening the season at the same time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brusselsartdays.com\/2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brussels Art Days<\/a> (this<\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\"> being<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> the name of the event) has grown in size<\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\"> &#8211;<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> now including conferences, curated programs and non-for-profit art spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">It is for this occasion that we reached Anke Weyer, an emerging artist based in New York whose paintings will be on show through November 7th at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officebaroque.com\/artists\/30\/anke-weyer\" target=\"_blank\">Office Baroque<\/a>, one of the leading galleries in town. <\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">Moved by our fascination<\/span> <span lang=\"it-IT\">for <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">her abstract compositions of oil and acrylic paint, for the way they seem to embody both self-conscious traces (or expressionism) and the <\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">disappearance<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> of those very marks<\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">,<\/span> <span lang=\"it-IT\">w<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">e asked her a few question just before the opening of her show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is your first solo show in Europe, do you have any expectation on how the public will react to your art here compared to the response you normally get in the US?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"en-US\">I do not anticipate any particular emotion or response. On the contrary, I hope the works leave room for any possible interpretation. <\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">S<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">howing a painting is <\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">rather<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> like throwing my contribution into a dialogue than stating an aphorism.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The title of the exhibition<\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\"> (T<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">wo Islands Are Better Than One<\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">)<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> has this very romantic and sentimental overtone while some of the paintings are called with more mundane expressions like <\/span>\u201c<span lang=\"en-US\">ASAP already<\/span>\u201d<span lang=\"en-US\">. Can you tell us how you come up with your titles?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>When I give titles I sometimes use fragments of expressions that have an already established meaning like abbreviations or proverbs and take them out of their original context to give them a new meaning, which should remain ambiguous and rather accompany what is visible on the painting than describing it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In a previous interview you sa<\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">id<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> it was hard to just enjoy painting while you were studying in Frankfurt and that that struggle ultimately went into the canvas. Do you still find yourself in bad terms with painting sometimes? If so, does this artistic conflict take form in forms other than the canvas?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"en-US\">I think painting is a constant crisis management, I can<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">t stand it when a painting looks as if its just a past time. It is serious work and comes loaded with so much history and responsibility, which is what makes it so interesting.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you ever picture your paintings outside the white cube? Perhaps next to the work of another contemporary artist or old master you really appreciate?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"en-US\">I have to admit that I do enjoy seeing the work taken out of my personal space and on a white wall. Whatever the environment is, it always effects the perception of a viewer<\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\"> even <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">or maybe especially in a white cube. <\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">S<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">omething interesting happens there because you get confronted with how you feel when you stand alone in front of a painting. B<\/span><\/em><em><span lang=\"en-US\">ut also, with painting in particular<\/span><span lang=\"it-IT\">,<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> there are not so many options of how to present it, the material is simply too fragile to show anywhere else than a room that is designated to this purpose.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">From modernism and abstract expressionism to post-modernism, some generic art historical terms can be mentioned to describe your practice. We<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">d rather ask if you feel any sense of belonging to a contemporary artistic current? Or perhaps a specific scene in New York City, the city where you live?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"en-US\">It would be pretentious of me to say that I am part of a scene.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What are your plans after the exhibition at Office Baroque?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Holiday!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the contemporary art fair taking place in April, the Brussels gallery weekend in September is with no doubt the most important yearly celebration of the city\u2019s art world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-dialogue-with"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}