Edition Antae (brimstone / light blue)
Madeleine Boschan, Berlin / Los Angeles 2016
silkscreen on handmade paper
75 x 55 cm cm
comes in hand-finished white painted wooden frame (76,6 x 56,6 cm)
Edition of 25 pieces
signed and numbered
Madeleine Boschan’s sculptures may seem timeless, but for her they’re about the here and now. A neon light, or a thermometer, integrated into the sculptures embodies this. And some issues never get old. “How to live together?” the artist asks à la Roland Barthes — one of the challenges with which she confronts herself. She discovers the relevant utopias for the future in Greek antiquity, where philosophy and science were granted time and space to explore the essence of things. For the artflash edition Antae (Brimstone / Light Blue), she found her inspiration in the proportions and colors of the Greek antae temples: sky blue for the antechamber known as the pronaos, from which one entered the sanctuary of the naos, rendered here in vibrant yellow. The result is a silkscreen print on watercolor board reduced to the essentials, in whose structure the coloration subtly breaks and thus becomes something other than a simple surface. One curator attributed a “spiritual allure” to Boschan’s works, all hand-made and often rising from the floor to the ceiling. They encourage our movement—within the room and within ourselves. And thus, ultimately, they offer us the chance to forge new paths in order, perhaps, to find solutions during our travels.