The Best
Bogus
Botanical
Garden
heliumcowboy Artwork Pricelist | March 23 – April 13, 2017
with
GIOVANNI CASTELL (GER)
LISA CREAGH (UK)
LIZ ORTON (UK)
SAKIR GÖKÇEBAG (TUR)
JANAINA MELLO LANDINI (BRA)
JENS RAUSCH (GER)
MAREN SIMON (GER)
KATIE SPRAGG (UK)
SADIE WEIS (USA)
PRICELIST | The Best Bogus Botanical Garden
curated by Rosie Jenkins, Eline Verstegen and Chiara Villa from the Metropolitan
University and the Whitechapel Gallery from London.
featuring:
GIOVANNI CASTELL (GER)
LISA CREAGH (UK)
LIZ ORTON (UK)
SAKIR GÖKÇEBAĞ (TUR)
JANAINA MELLO LANDINI (BRA)
JENS RAUSCH (GER)
MAREN SIMON (GER)
KATIE SPRAGG (UK)
SADIE WEIS (USA)
Vernissage Thursday the March 23, 6 -10 pm
Exhibition from 24. March – 13. April 2017
Opening hours Wed, Thr & Fri 1 – 7 pm, Sa 2 - 6 pm
If you are interested in purchasing artwork or need further information,
don‘t hesitate to contact us at:
[email protected] | +49 151 1656 1663
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Exhibited Artwork:
Giovanni Castell
Giovanni Castell (b.1962, Munich) is a Hamburg-based artist who specializes in
photography and digital art. The use of virtual programming allows the artist to
grow artificial plants that compose the vibrant landscapes of his ‘In Lucem
Edere’ series (2014-2016). In this collection of ‘digital paintings’ a colourful and
luxurious vegetation comes to life in order to subvert traditional modes of
representing nature.
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Giovanni Castell
No. 3 (2016)
From the series “In Lucem Edere”
Print/Diasec, 130 cm x 130 cm, edition 1/5 + 2 AP
€ 13.000
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Giovanni Castell
No. 4 (2016)
From the series “In Lucem Edere”
Print/Diasec, 80 cm x 80 cm, edition 1/5 + 2 AP
€ 9.000
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Exhibited Artwork:
Lisa Creagh
Lisa Creagh (b.1972, Coventry, UK) is a Brighton based photographic artist
whose work centres around dialogues between the mediums of photography,
digital imaging and painting.
The exhibited works from ‘The Instant Garden’ (2014-2011) depict bold floral
patterns produced through the digitally generated combination of images of
industrially grown flowers. Inspired by the Persian practice of throwing down
rugs with rich floral patterns, Lisa took the decision to create her own ‘instant
garden’.
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Lisa Creagh
C10 (2009)
From the series “The Instant Garden“
Lightjet print on Kodak Endura paper, 30 cm x 30 cm, edition 3/15
framed € 610/ unframed € 450
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Lisa Creagh
E7.2 (2012)
From the series “The Instant Garden“
Lightjet print on Kodak Endura paper, 30 cm x 30 cm, edition 1/15
framed € 610/ unframed € 450
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Lisa Creagh
E 8.1 (2010)
From the series “The Instant Garden“
Lightjet print on Kodak Endura paper, 30 cm x 30 cm, edition 4/15
framed € 610/ unframed € 450
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Lisa Creagh
F9 (2009)
From the series “The Instant Garden“
Lightjet print on Kodak Endura paper, 30 cm x 30 cm, edition 5/15
framed € 610/ unframed € 450
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Lisa Creagh
F16.1 (2014)
From the series “The Instant Garden“
Lightjet print on Kodak Endura paper, 30 cm x 30 cm, edition 3/15
framed € 610/ unframed € 450
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Lisa Creagh
F18.1 (2015)
From the series “The Instant Garden“
Lightjet print on Kodak Endura paper, 30 cm x 30 cm, edition 1/15
framed € 610/ unframed € 450
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Exhibited Artwork:
Sakir Gökçebag
Sakir Gökçebağ (b.1965, Denizli) is a Turkish-born visual artist who lives and
works in Hamburg. He is especially well-known for his sculptures and
installations in which he manipulates different materials to change the usual
function of mundane objects, thus rendering the familiar unfamiliar.
In the work “Untitled (buckets)” (2017) cut-outs undermine the intrinsic identity
of buckets as containers while the overall shape created by chaining them
together emphasizes the formal circular quality of a single one.
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Sakir Gökçebag
Untitled (plastic buckets) (2016)
plastic buckets, 27 × 117 × 117 cm
€ 9.500
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Exhibited Artwork:
Janaina Mello Landini
Janaina Mello Landini (b.1974, São Gotardo, Brazil) creates sculptures that
simulate living active entities growing through space and time. Made from rope
and linen, they immerse their surroundings under their crawling branches that
hang, suspended, from the gallery ceiling.
The works in the exhibition from the series ‘Ciclotrama’ simulate nature’s
organic shapes through the production of sculptures that reflect upon the
fleeting state of our environment.
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Janaina Mello Landini
Ciclotrama 71 (2017)
Linen and 2800m of different lines, 240 cm x 120 cm x 120 cm
€ 9.000
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Janaina Mello Landini
Ciclotrama 72 (2017)
Linen and 3000m of different lines, 240 cm x 130 cm x 130 cm
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€ 9.000
Exhibited Artwork:
Liz Orton
Liz Orton (b.1967, London) is a London-based artist whose work focuses on
natural science and visual systems of knowledge. Orton’s practice of analysing
and reimagining archival materials supports a photographic production that
entangles artistic and scientific ways of representing botanical materials. The
series ‘Splitters and Lumpers’ (2012) was inspired by the complexities of
identifying, classifying and storing millions of specimens at Kew Gardens’
Herbarium. Witnessing various methods of preservation, the artist decided to
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capture the bundles of dried specimens awaiting classification to underline the
relationship between nature and systematic knowledge.
Liz Orton
Cortaderia selloana, Poeaceae (2012)
from the series “Splitters and Lumpers“
C-type print, 75 cm x 60 cm, edition 2/20
€ 870
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Liz Orton
Syzygium Guineense, Myrtaceae (2012)
from the series “Splitters and Lumpers“
C-type print, 75 cm x 60 cm, edition 2/20
€ 870
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Liz Orton
Asplenium nidus (2012)
from the series “Splitters and Lumpers“
C-type print, 75 cm x 60 cm, edition 2/20
€ 870
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Exhibited Artwork:
Jens Rausch
Jens Rausch (b. 1976, Fulda, Germany) works with experimental techniques and
materials to create depictions of forest settings. Referring to the digitization
of our current modern world for example, the works comment on our
disconnection with nature. The works from the series ‘Forestry’ (2015) depict
organic elements that Rausch has come across whilst on visits to the forest. In
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such a way his works bring out “the forest within us” with an uncanny depiction
of what we all recognize and at the same time strive for.
Jens Rausch
The Constant Renewing (2015)
Oil on paper mounted on wood panel and plant parts, 120 cm x 86,5 cm
€ 1.700
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Jens Rausch
Nachtschattengewächs III (2015)
Oil and fire on paper, 50 cm x 65 cm
€ 900
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Jens Rausch
Nachtschattengewächs II (2015)
Oil on paper, 50 cm x 65 cm
€ 900
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Exhibited Artwork:
Maren Simon
Maren Simon (Hannover, Germany) is a Hamburg based artist whose practice
traces, tracks and marks the paper through the use of ink and acrylic. By way
of this active mode of making, the artist produces biomorphic forms that
possess a mineral-like quality and evoke the aesthetics of microscopic nature.
In the series ‘Findings’ (2016) she applies salt grains upon layers of paint and
blotches of ink that she shifts across the surface of the paper, creating infinite
combinations of patterns and movements.
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Maren Simon
Untitled (2016)
From the series “Findings”
Ink on paper, 70 cm x 50 cm
€ 850
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Maren Simon
Untitled (2016)
From the series “Findings”
Ink on paper, 34 cm x 48 cm
€ 450
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Maren Simon
Untitled (2016)
From the series “Findings”
Ink on paper, 22 cm x 32 cm
€ 280
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Exhibited Artwork:
Katie Spragg
Katie Spragg (b.1987, UK) is a London-based artist who specializes in the
medium of ceramics. While evoking primordial feelings of communion with
nature, the artist creates new opportunities for magical encounters by
producing natural organisms from her own imagination. This tension between
the expected and the unknown is supported by her own description of the
sculptures as representations of “the conflict between our sublime fantasy of
nature and the often more mundane reality of our experience of it.” The works
from her ‘Turfs’ series (2017) follow this definition by representing crystallized
segments of nature that play with our idealised image of nature.
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Katie Spragg
Lisbon Turf (2017)
Porcelain, 20 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm
€ 580
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Katie Spragg
Loch Ken Turf (2017)
Porcelain, 22 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm
€ 580
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Katie Spragg
Seal Cove Turf (2017)
Porcelain, 24 cm x 12 cm x 12 cm
€ 720
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Exhibited Artwork:
Sadie Weis
Sadie Weis (b.1981, Kansas) is an American artist based in Berlin. Weis
describes her sculptural work as “the re-appropriation of found relics and
memories in accordance with organic processes such as crystal growth and
natural decay.” Applying a unique mixture of water and chemicals upon found
objects and organic matter, Weis grows a multitude of crystals that mutate and
interact with their underlying material form. The works in the exhibition, such
as ‘Sci-Copia’, will consist in crystallized plants, flowers and geodes, in which
the scientific medium marries the organic one.
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Sadie Weis
Baltica (2017)
Crystalized Amonium Di-hydrogen Phosphate Flint from Baltic Sea
14 cm x 12 cm x 10 cm
€ 500
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Sadie Weis
Blue Kryptonite (2017)
Copper Sulphate crystalized sytropore, crystalized sound installation sponge
16 cm x 17cm x 12 cm
€ 400
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Sadie Weis
Sci-Copia (2015)
Various crystalized plants and flowers of Potassium Dichromat, Copper
Sulphate, Potassium Aluminium Sulphate, Ammonium Dihydrogen Phosphate,
melted plastic, holographic glitter, silicon,
70 cm x 40 cm x 40 cm
€ 2.500
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Sadie Weis
Ultraintraference (2017)
Crystalized Amonium Di-hydrogen Phosphate Sound Absorber, Styropor,
Interference Pigment
13 cm x 47 cm x 19 cm
€ 600
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Sadie Weis
Ultrametric (2015)
Crystalized Potassium Di-Chromat, Stryopor, Interference Pigment,
14 cm x 12 cm x 10 cm
€ 130
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Sadie Weis
Eclipsed (2017)
Crystalized Amonium Di-hydrogen Phosphate shells from Thailand,
Interference Pigment, Polystyrene
10 cm x 43 cm x 20 cm
€ 700
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Sadie Weis
Sea Urchin (2017)
Kalium Alum Sulphate, crystalized styropor,
58 cm x 19 cm x 9 cm
€ 420
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Sadie Weis
Khamali (spirit protector) (2017)
Kalium Alum Sulphate, crystalized styropor,
17 cm x 8 cm x 10 cm
€ 400
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Sadie Weis
Flora 2 (2017)*
Kalium Aluminium sulphate, Crystalized Paradise Flower,
110 x 21 x 6 cm
€ 300
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Sadie Weis
Hot Pink Orchid (2017)*
Kalium Aluminium Sulphate crystalized artificial flower,
50 cm x 15 cm x 11 cm
€ 350
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Sadie Weis
Geode 2 (2017)
Crystalized Amonium Di-hydrogen Phosphate Styropor, Interference Pigment
12 cm x 21 cm x 26 cm
€ 500
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Sadie Weis
Geode 3 (2017)
Crystalized Kalium Aluminium Sulphate, Styropor, Interference Pigment
5 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm
€ 450
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Sadie Weis
Matter (2017)
Crystalized Amonium Di-hydrogen Phosphate, Car Air- conditioning Filter,
Spray Paint
42 cm x 30 cm x 12 cm
€ 600
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Sadie Weis
ParaDyst (2017)
Dimensions variable, app. 130 cm x 50 cm x 50 cm
Various Kalium Aluminium Sulphate crystalized real and artificial flowers and
plants, Ammonium Di-hydrogen Phosphate crystalized real and artificial flowers
and plants, Copper Sulphate crystalized plants, cactus, Styropor, Polystyrene,
crystalized flint stones from the Baltic Sea, defunct fireworks, plastic cups,
plexiglass, metal wire, Interference pigment, spraypaint, neon light
€ 2.500
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Sadie Weis
ParaDyst Installation (2017)
comprising of eleven individual sculptures of variable sizes, see details above
€ 5.000
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The Best Bogus Botanical Garden
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
heliumcowboy artspace is delighted to present ‘The Best Bogus Botanical Garden’, a group
exhibition curated by emerging London-based curators Rosie Jenkins, Eline Verstegen and
Chiara Villa, postgraduates from the Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design and
Whitechapel Gallery, featuring works by Hamburg and international artists who explore
humans’ engagement with nature.
Participating artists: Giovanni Castell (GER), Lisa Creagh (UK), Sakir Gökçebag (TUR), Janaina
Mello Landini (BRA), Liz Orton (UK), Jens Rausch (GER), Maren Simon (GER), Katie Spragg (UK),
and Sadie Weis (USA).
Influenced by digitization, urbanism and ecological awareness, human ways of relating to the
natural environment have changed significantly throughout recent years. As a response to this
condition a vast amount of contemporary artists have started to investigate this changing
relationship by simulating the very nature we have become disconnected from. The Best Bogus
Botanical Garden then aims to look at art practices that seem to recreate nature, either by
manipulating organic elements in new forms, or by inventing their own materials. To further
enhance the illusion of the simulacra, the exhibition takes the experimental form of an
immersive environment, literally transforming the white cube gallery space into an artificial
botanical garden.
The use of virtual means to recreate nature is a common feature among Hamburg-based artist
Giovanni Castell and London-based artists Lisa Creagh and Liz Orton. Similar to Giovanni
Castell’s ‘In Lucem Edere’ series, where he grows entirely artificial ecosystems through the use
of virtual programs, are Lisa Creagh’s works from ‘The Instant Garden’. The use of digital
imaging allows the artist to transform mundane photographs of industrially grown flowers into
intricate floral patterns that are reminiscent of ancient Persian rugs. A less visible display of
digital manipulation characterises Liz Orton’s photographic series ‘Splitters and Lumpers’.
Still, the digital isolation of the cross-section shots of the archives at Kew Gardens’ Herbarium,
plays a central role in underlining the interconnection between systematic knowledge and
natural growth.
The inventiveness to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary is taken to the extreme in
the installation art of Turkish-born but Hamburg-based artist Sakir Gökçebag and Brazilian
artist Janaina Mello Landini. While Gökçebag gives common objects a new existence by
combining and rearranging different materials, Landini reproduces nature’s organic shapes
through the manipulation of strings, threads and ropes. Gökçebag’s ‘Untitled’ by undermining
the intrinsic identity of the buckets as containers, shows an unexpected affinity to Landini’s
‘Ciclotrama’, where the precarious position of the hanging ropes emulates the fleeting state of
our environment.
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Remaining faithful to traditional media, German-born artists Jens Rausch and Maren Simon
and London-based artist Katie Spragg do not refrain to offer unexpected twists in the
execution of their works. As an attempt to reach “the forest within us”, Rausch uses
experimental compositions and techniques to produce oil paintings that express a more
intimate approach with the materiality of the canvas. This interest in materiality is particularly
tangible in Simon’s ‘Findings’ series, where the addition of granulated salt on the works’
painted surface is complemented by the quasi-performative act of tracing, tracking and
marking the sheet of paper with ink and acrylic. While using a more naturalistic approach,
Spragg’s reinvention of the ceramic medium is comparable to previous explorative practices.
Playing with our own idealized image of the wilderness, the artist’s sculptures from the series
‘Turfs’ represent a crystallized nature emerging from human memory and fantasies of
alternative ecosystems.
The fascination with natural elements is exacerbated in the work of Berlin-based artist Sadie
Weis, who uses nature’s own means as the starting point of her practice. Through submerging
plants, flowers and geodes in an unique mixture of water and chemicals, Weis creates intricate
sculptures that explore organic processes of natural
growth and decay. The works included in this
exhibition are prime examples of the artist’s
exploration into the fragility and ephemerality of
natural organisms.
The Best Bogus Botanical Garden is curated by
Rosie Jenkins, Eline Verstegen, and Chiara Villa,
three postgraduates from the MA Curating the
Contemporary, organized jointly by the Sir John
Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design of
London Metropolitan University and Whitechapel
Gallery.
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IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ANY WORK, PLEASE CONTACT US AT:
[email protected]
+49 151 1656 1663
ABOUT HELIUMCOWBOY:
A pioneer among a new breed of galleries, heliumcowboy opened 2002 in Hamburg St.
Pauli. The aim was to discover exciting young artists with the ability to blow away
boundaries and to establish nothing less but the future aesthetics of art.
Since the beginning, our motto (and ethos) derives from an old 70ies song: „A
cowboy‘s work is never done“. This in mind, we quickly expanded the gallery’s reach by
showcasing artists from around the globe, organizing exhibitions abroad and in
unusual places, and taking part in acclaimed art fairs in New York, Miami, Basel,
Cologne and Berlin.
heliumcowboy tirelessly supports artists by giving them the space and opportunity to
fully explore and showcase their talent. Jointly, we have been getting our hands and
minds dirty, achieving a shared goal: to establish a new breed of artists within the field
of probably the „most contemporary“ form of fine art today.
Almost 15 years, more than 200 shows and art fairs and several locations later,
heliumcowboy disposed of the traditional gallery concept with a regular exhibition
schedule. We are focusing on supporting a very small and exclusive selection of artists
only, developing and executing art projects and organizing off-site and on-site
exhibitions as well as exhibiting at renowned art fairs.
Pricelist information for “THE BEST BOGUS BOTANICAL GARDEN “,
MARCH 23 – APRIL 13, 2017. by heliumcowboy artspace GmbH,
Bäckerbreitergang 75, 20355 Hamburg. Subject to change.
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