First Solo Show of Xenia Fink in USA
05/14/2011, 6pm to 9pm
Galerie Schuster Miami
2051 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
www.galleryschuster.com

Galerieschustermiami
Galerieschusterberlin

drawings
Xenia Fink
07 May – 31 May 2011

Galerieschustermiami is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Berlin based artist Xenia FInk. The “ drawings” opens 14.May. during the Wynwood Second Saturday . The exhibition will be open one week before the official opening. All drawings are done during the ISCP Grant 2010 in New York.

Xenia Fink (born 1979 in Sao Paulo, Brazil) was raised in Brazil and Mexico before moving back to Germany to study Illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and finished with the Master in Painting at the UDK in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include group shows at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Galerie Schuster, Berlin and Miami; and solo shows at the Galerie Volkspark and Halle and Galerie Schuster, Berlin. and now Galerieschustermiami.

Xenia Fink provides the figures in pictures with contradictory character traits. They are never reduced to being good or evil but are full of nuances. She succeeds in creating droll figures doing crazy things. Thus the limit between fiction and reality dissolves. Sometimes this becomes threatening, sometimes it sets you free and sometimes it is just wonderful. The artist’s tableaus are also infused with a repertory of stylistic and formal elements of the modern pop culture. Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch are perceptible as are the framing of the images which overall are reminescent of cinematography.

Xenia Fink`s bold croppings and close-ups show figures, scenes and objects that are of such vividness as if she had photographed them with pencil and brush. For the viewer it is a foolhardy game of illusion and reality and there is the danger of totally losing one`s footing.

Manon Bursian, directorin of the Sachsen-Anhalt Art Foundation