Mandy Wiesener
Mandy Wiesener, an artist living in Frankfurt am Main, Germany deals with decontextualisation in her work. For this purpose, she is constantly on the lookout for mundane everyday objects, which she tears out of their original context and puts to a new purpose.
The artist carefully makes each individual object of her ceramic works by hand. First, she roughly sanded them. Afterwards, she meticulously polished them under a magnifying glass, and if they are presented in a shadow gap frame, she additionally varnishes them with car paint.
In order to intensify the play of light and shadow and to increase tension and dynamics, all objects are also produced at different angles of inclination.
By deliberately dispensing with colour, the solitary objects merge into a new compositional unity. The artist wants to provide the viewer with the opportunity to escape this sensory overload, away from the rush of colours and the flood of digital images and give them a moment of stillness and calm - in order to then experience the power, fascination, and beauty of structured, geometric forms. The ZERO movement, concrete art, serves as inspiration and a creative force.
