{"id":30187,"date":"2016-04-04T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T08:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=30187"},"modified":"2016-04-04T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T08:55:51","slug":"performing-the-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/performing-the-vortex\/","title":{"rendered":"Performing the Vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Devotion.jpg\" alt=\"Devotion, from 'Purpose' by Anna Conway\" width=\"716\" height=\"458\" \/> &#8216;Devotion&#8217; (2015), image courtesy of Collezione Maramotti<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nA recent concert brought me to the opening of an exhibition by Anna Conway at the Collezione\u00a0Maramotti in the small town of Reggio Emilia. The Maramotti family are the owners of the Max Mara fashion brand, and house their expansive art collection in their former factory, a magnificent Fifties building built with a mixture of Modernist Industrial styles. Most untypically for Emilia-Romagna\u00a0in early March, it was pouring it down, the town square huddled against the onslaught.<br \/>\nThe opening evening commenced with a musical programme of 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century music inspired by a Conway\u2019s works, which are simultaneously photo-realistic yet convey a sense of emptiness, playing with scale and proportion to interweave domestic interiors, city- and landscapes.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Its-Not-Going-To-Happen-Like-That.jpg\" alt=\"It's Not Going To Happen Like That, from 'Purpose' by Anna Conway\" width=\"716\" height=\"547\" \/> &#8216;It&#8217;s not going to happen like that&#8217; (2013), image courtesy of Collezione Maramotti<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Perseverance.jpg\" alt=\"Perseverance, from 'Purpose' by Anna Conway\" width=\"716\" height=\"459\" \/> &#8216;Perseverance&#8217; (2015), image courtesy of Collezione Maramotti<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nOperating on the post-Leipzig School principle of the ambiguous space and the ambiguous figure within that space, her protagonists appear exhausted by the demands of 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century society. Her landscapes owe a debt to early 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century surrealists such as De Chirico and Magritte, their absurd contrasts \u2013 battleships on a frozen grass sea, a bathroom sink against a landscape wallpaper, outsize hoardings abutting a kitchen \u2013 a calling card for the possibilities of the image. The works\u2019 titles, Devotion,\u00a0Determination,\u00a0Perseverance,\u00a0Potential are derived from motivational posters and through their unlikely subject matter imply a deadpan critique. However, just as one is never sure of Conway\u2019s subjects, this critique too remains ambiguous. Is it a reference to the painterly process, or a form of social commentary?<br \/>\nAchille Maramotti, MaxMara\u2019s founder, began collecting art during the 1960s, and the collection includes Arte Povera, including an impressive early Jannis Kounellis and Mario Merz. The Italian Transavantgardia is also well-represented, as is the 1980s New York painting scene. In addition to the aforementioned Kounellis, stand-out works include Francis Bacon, Huma Bhabha and Peter Halley \u2013 well worth a detour from Milan.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Determination.jpg\" alt=\"Determination, from 'Purpose' by Anna Conway\" width=\"716\" height=\"439\" \/> &#8216;Determination&#8217; (2015), image courtesy of Collezione Maramotti<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Potential.jpg\" alt=\"Potential, from 'Purpose' by Anna Conway\" width=\"716\" height=\"481\" \/> &#8216;Potential&#8217; (2015), image courtesy of Collezione Maramotti<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Purpose&#8221; is on display at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collezionemaramotti.org\/en\/work-in-progress\/201636\/Anna-Conway-\/1634\" target=\"_blank\">Collezione Maramotti<\/a>\u00a0until 31 July 2016<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo-realistic works in &#8216;Purpose&#8217; play with scale and proportion while interweaving domestic interiors, city- and landscapes<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30222,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4180,38,4181,4182],"class_list":["post-30187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-anna-conway","tag-art","tag-collezione-maramotti","tag-maxmara"],"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>Performing the Vortex Performing the Vortex<\/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\/performing-the-vortex\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Performing the Vortex Performing the Vortex\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The photo-realistic works in &#039;Purpose&#039; play with scale and proportion while interweaving domestic interiors, city- and landscapes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/performing-the-vortex\/\" \/>\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=\"2016-04-04T08:55:51+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\" \/>\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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