Glazed Paradise : Sculptures and Photography by Mark Jenkins

Current Exhibition

Jan
19

Glazed Paradise

Sculptures and Photography by Mark Jenkins

Date: January 19, 2012 - March 4, 2012

Location: Gestalten Space, Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Sophienstraße 21, 10178 Berlin

Featuring a talk by the artist

Gestalten is proud to present the first solo show in Germany by the renowned American artist Mark Jenkins, who uses ordinary packing tape to create life-size human or animal forms. Jenkins is best known for his clever installations of these startlingly lifelike tape sculptures in urban and natural spaces as well as indoor environments such as cafeterias, toilets, and art galleries. This expert staging of his work, especially his clothed human figures, provokes various—often strong—reactions from passersby and expands his interventions into powerful performances.

“Glazed Paradise” will feature new sculptures specifically conceived for this show and made by the artist in Berlin, which will be unveiled at the January 19th opening. These will be complemented by a limited edition of smaller tape sculptures. In addition to Mark Jenkins’s sculptural work, “Glazed Paradise” will include photographs of select installations that reveal how compelling the interaction between his artwork and its environment can be.

To coincide with the show, Gestalten is releasing the artist’s first monograph The Urban Theater: Mark Jenkins. A limited number of signed copies will be available for purchase at the show and from shop.gestalten.com.

Please join us for the opening of “Glazed Paradise” on January 19, 2012 at 18:30 and don’t miss the opportunity to hear a talk by Mark Jenkins in which he will give personal insight into the origins of and creative process behind his tape sculptures.

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Upcoming Events

Mar
1

Opportunities (and Dangers) of Visual Storytelling

A Talk by Reif Larsen

March 1 at Gestalten Space

Date: March 1, 2012

Time: 19:00

Location: Gestalten Space, Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Sophienstraße 21, 10178 Berlin

Language: English

Gestalten proudly invites you to an evening with Reif Larsen, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Die Karte meiner Träume). The book is widely admired for its beautifully imaginative storyline and unique visual narrative that features illustrated maps, diagrams, and sketches, which mirror the protagonist’s obsession with cartography.

Larsen will explore the ways that visuals can tell stories, and in particular the sometimes fraught relationship between text and image. Drawing upon diverse sources including the marginalia from his own book, airline safety cards, hand drawn maps, illuminated manuscripts, and the current cultural obsession with information graphics, Larsen will unpack the opportunities (and dangers) of visual storytelling, a field of increasing prominence in today's visual-heavy world.

The talk will be followed by a conversation with Gestalten’s Sven Ehmann, our in-house data visualization and infographics enthusiast. Ehmann is co-editor of Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language and Data Flow book series.

Reif Larsen's debut novel, The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet, was a New York Times bestseller and is currently being adapted for the screen by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie). Larsen's essays and fiction have appeared in Tin House, one story, The Millions, and The Believer. He is currently the writer-in-residence at the Dutch Institute for Advanced Study and working on another novel about puppets and the uncertainty principle.

This talk will take place in English.
As with all of our talk events, this event is free.

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About Gestalten Space

Conceived as an outlet to materialize the world that we publish and bring it to life, Gestalten Space opened its doors in our home city Berlin in April 2011. Here at Gestalten, we are not only thrilled to present our comprehensive collection of books that we have published to date—both new, as well as coveted, hard-to-find archive titles but also to present a striking selection of handpicked and thematically-arranged products by the designers and artists that we have presented through our publications.

Doubling as a platform for exchanging ideas and further enriching and fostering emerging creative processes at the nexus of design and art, the gallery offers an engaging program of exhibitions, lectures, and surprise events.

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