Kompass K

Name: Kompass K - Katinka Bock
Brand: Keijiban
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Katinka Bock

2024

Hammered copper sheet

18.2 × 25.7 cm

Edition of 20 copies (all unique) numbered and signed by the artist on a certificate.

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The edition

This edition is part of a large series of works entitled Kompass, a German name suggesting that notions of orientation and direction are involved. The series investigates the way in which objects and bodies find their point of equilibrium and indicate the gravity exerted on them. Each of the twenty sheets in Kompass K is pierced with an increasing number of holes, defining its position in the series. From each hole, a line is drawn in the metal, indicating the vertical position when the sheet is suspended through this hole. As the series progresses, the lines of gravity multiply, reflecting the different points of temporary equilibrium found by the sheet. A network of lines is created, whose subtle shimmer is only perceptible at certain angles. In this way, each piece reveals its own specific equilibrium as well as the orientation of the light at any given moment, anchored in the here and now. Produced on a sheet of bronze hammered using the tsuchime craft technique, in a B5 format standard in Japan, the work also expresses its place in the material and sensitive Japanese sphere. But while affirming the significance of such singularities, it also addresses a form of universality. These twenty sheets appear as pages pierced by empty letters, the pages of a universal correspondence, governed by the language of gravity and the structure of constellations.

The artist

Katinka Bock was born in 1976 in Frankfurt, and currently lives in Paris.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Katinka Bock has used materials such as leather, wood, stone, fabric, ceramics, and found objects to explore the physical, temporal, and mental outlines of spaces. Her practice is located at the intersection of sculpture and installation. The inner properties of the shaped materials are as important as their relation to the environment in which they are displayed; their physical presence is inseparable from their capacity to define or challenge a space.

In the wake of post-minimalism and arte povera, Katinka Bock applies simple gestures and processes (such as folding, wrapping, molding, and imprinting) to the materials to produce artworks that bear witness to the passage of time, the interaction between body and matter, a precious and precarious balance. The artist also uses the medium of photography, which she considers as existing at the “periphery” of her practice, as a tool for extending her artistic investigation through a close, familiar point of view. Just as her three-dimensional works embody a certain fluidity or indeterminacy, her photographs often express an apparition, the emergence of a phenomenon, the beauty of serendipity.

In 2019, Katinka Bock was among the artists nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. She was artist-in-residence at the Villa Medici in Rome (2012-13) and received the 14th Fondation Pernod Ricard Prize in France and the Dorothea von Stetten Prize in Germany (2012).

Recent solo shows include Common People, La Loge, Brussels, Belgium, 2022; Katinka Bock, Cahn Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland, 2022; Katinka Bock, 303 Gallery, New York, USA, 2021; Logbook, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 2021; Rauschen, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, 2020.

Katinka Bock is represented by Meyer Riegger (Berlin, Karlsruhe, Basel), Galerie Greta Meert (Brussels), 303 Gallery (New York), and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (Paris).

The exhibition

Katinka Bock’s exhibition took place at Keijiban from September 15 to October 14, 2024.

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Kompass K

Katinka Bock

2024