{"id":17353,"date":"2014-10-22T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=17353"},"modified":"2014-10-22T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:00:17","slug":"arab-spring-julie-mehretu-new-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/arab-spring-julie-mehretu-new-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismay at the Arab spring and Julie Mehretu&#039;s new direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17384\" alt=\"Courtesy the artist &amp; carlier | gebauer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Mehretu_2014_carliergebauer_5.jpg\" width=\"716\" height=\"537\" \/> Courtesy the artist &amp; carlier | gebauer<\/p>\n<p>Julie Mehretu\u2019s multi-layered paintings marry oil with ink and pencil to create vortices of chaos in a new series of large-scale works are currently on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/carlier-gebauer\/\">Carlier Gebauer<\/a> gallery in Berlin. \u00a0The 44 year old painter, who hails from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and currently resides in New York, channels the war, violence and loss of hope that occurred in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings in her new works.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The chaos of the current works mirrors the chaotic conflict that has engulfed the region in the wake of the uprising: &#8220;You have these horrific situations in the war that is taking place in places like Syria. How do you maintain that idealism in the face of this? How can you invent something else? I feel like in a way these paintings come this place of retreat, from this place of dismay.&#8221; The new pictorial language reflects Mehretu\u2019s striving for a different form of expression: &#8220;I wanted it to be about the mark-making and the effort of trying to invent new language, new space,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17379\" alt=\"Courtesy the artist &amp; carlier | gebauer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Mehretu_2014_carliergebauer_1.jpg\" width=\"716\" height=\"537\" \/> Courtesy the artist &amp; carlier | gebauer<\/p>\n<p>While there is some discernible structure in the paintings \u2013 abstract landscapes, jungles and marks that take the appearance of Twombly-esque scribbles \u2013 Mehretu has mostly eradicated the orderly composition she is known for. &#8220;The mark making has always been such an integral part to the paintings. In the past, you had the architectural underpinning, which gives the social and political context to the painting\u201d. In this case, that was the Arab Spring and its promise of freedom. The works thus form a point of departure from earlier pieces, shown at d(OCUMENTA) 13 and held in the MoMA\u2019s permanent collection \u2013 the chaos has replaced orderly structure and architectural allusions. &#8220;There is this battle between earlier works and this body of paintings,&#8221; she notes. This battle is reflective of Mehretu\u2019s struggle to develop a personal voice and history in the face of the unceasing forces of destruction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text von <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/jeni-fulton\/\">Jeni Fulton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The exhibition &#8220;Half A Shadow&#8221; is on view at Carlier Gebauer until 1\u00a0November 2014 at Markgrafenstr. 67, 10969 Berlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>More art reviews and interviews in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/category\/showroom\/\">Showroom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The full interview with Julie Mehretu will be published in the forthcoming issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.sleek-mag.com\/\">Schlankes Magazin<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy the artist &amp; carlier | gebauer Julie Mehretu\u2019s multi-layered paintings marry oil with ink and pencil to create vortices of chaos in a new series of large-scale works are currently on view at Carlier Gebauer gallery in Berlin. \u00a0The 44 year old painter, who hails from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and currently resides in New&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[1293,1844,1458],"class_list":["post-17353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-carlier-gebauer","tag-julie-mehretu","tag-painting"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dismay at the Arab spring and Julie Mehretu&#039;s new direction Dismay at the Arab spring and Julie Mehretu&#039;s new direction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/arab-spring-julie-mehretu-new-direction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dismay at the Arab spring and Julie Mehretu&#039;s new direction Dismay at the Arab spring and Julie Mehretu&#039;s new direction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Courtesy the artist &amp; carlier | gebauer Julie Mehretu\u2019s multi-layered paintings marry oil with ink and pencil to create vortices of chaos in a new series of large-scale works are currently on view at Carlier Gebauer gallery in Berlin. \u00a0The 44 year old painter, who hails from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and currently resides in New...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/arab-spring-julie-mehretu-new-direction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-10-22T14:00:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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