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The Works of Rafael Springer at iKe
iKe welcomes on its premises during one year the works of Rafael Springer, a Luxembourgish artist of international renown.
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Rafael Springer is a resident artist at Schäifmillen, the vestige of an important textile factory of the nineteenth century on the territory of the city of Luxembourg. This high industrial location is today transformed and shelters one of the oldest, but also one of the most active, independent artistic collectives in Luxembourg. It is here where Rafael Springer achieved the great majority of her works. Through her current work, Rafael Springer reinterprets her existence in Luxembourg and reinvents the world that surrounds her daily. |
| The works retained to be installed on iKe’s premises are part of two collections of design. |
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A first section of the designs of Rafael Springer is a selection of collages achieved through the use of the process of décalage. Through a systematic cutting into vertical bands of the same size for each work, the original image is dislocated and the reconstitution is applied according to a particular visual rhythm.
This “cut-up” technique is employed to contruct a visual sum where all oppositions are resolved in an ocean of visual particles which, if they do not form a unique image, regroup in a rhythmed order that emerges in a surprising way. |
| The second section presented is an extract from the series "Too many stories I don't wanna talk about" (TMSIDNWTA) and "Electric Message". The TMSIDNWTA series is composed of groups of panels devoted to the meditation of horizontals. Lines in soft relief, interrupted by their colors, continuous in their movement. They bring to mind the subtle tapestries conceived according to the same principle, but each one possesses its own characteristic. One delights in the fresh declension of mauve, pale yellows, nuanced greens and blues; or of an other, where reds, clear and deep blues, oranges and whites joyously mix with each other. Through an other manner of playing with rhythm and the agitation of the world, the painting "Electric Message", visible in the meeting room, composed of a multitude of black and white points, forces you to examine it with more and more precision, but as soon as your effort is raised, the image becomes more and more indecipherable. It is a voyage from the normality of rhythm to the omnipresent chaos that Rafael takes us to embark on the edge of these few works.  |
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Commentary from Christian Mosar, Claudine Muno and Hilda Van Heel.