Selina Trepp at ART FORUM UTE BARTH Gallery for Modern & Contemporary Art Zurich

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Selina Trepp     1973 geboren in Zürich, lebt und arbeitet in Zürich und Chicago USA

Installation "CAMOUFLAGE"  2007

also known as cryptic coloration, is the method that allows an otherwise visible organism or object to remain indiscernible from the surrounding environment.

Camouflage is a suspended sculpture/installation made of metal pipe, yarn and mirror shards, which physically reconfigures the space, while at the same time camouflaging it by flattening and fracturing the environment and thus abstracting it. Spatially the installation is conceived to take up a major part of the space, its mass focused in the center of the space allowing the viewer bypass it around the edges to access the backend of the sculpture, where the mirrors are recessed towards the center and form a cave like environment.

Mirror shards are glued back-to-back hanging of a delicately crochet camouflage yarn string attached to the pipe structure installed across the top of the stall. The mirrors slowly gyrate. They flatten and fracture their surroundings. The reflective surfaces form an exquisite corps of the space as the sculpture camouflages itself with its environment. Although it is shiny and attractive in motion, it is made of sharp shards and hangs form a delicate yarn string; a dangerous object. This juxtaposition creates tension between the desires it taps into and the fears it evokes. The yarn works both as a mounting device and as the grammar to the piece. Its camouflage pattern reminiscent of the army does not do in this context what it is designed to do, it functions as a title, a read, on the piece. In the white gallery space it is the most visible element of the sculpture. The mirrors render themselves invisible by reflecting their environment. The light reflecting in the mirrors bounces from the floor and the walls and creates another pattern of lights and shadows covering the surrounding surfaces, moving as the mirrors are turning.

Selina Trepp 2007

Education / Ausbildung

1989-94 Matura Liceo Artistico, Zurich, Switzerland

1996-98 BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

2005- ... MFA University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)

Exhibitions (selection) / Ausstellungen (Auswahl)

2006
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich, Switzerland
Nova Art Fair, Chicago, USA

2005
Let's Play, University of Illinois Chicago
Helmhaus Zurich, Switzerland
Galeria La Rebeca, Bogota Colombia
Esther Eppstein message salon @ Encuentro Internacional de Espascios Independientes, Valparaiso, Chile

2004
Swiss Art Awards, Art 04, Basel, Switzerland
open-end Gallery, Chicago, USA

2003
Esther Eppstein message salon, Zurich, Switzerland
Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
open-end Gallery, Chicago, USA

2002
Swiss Art Awards, Art 02, Basel, Switzerland
version02, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA
Matrix of Collaboration, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine

2001
Kunstraum MODO, Wintherthur, Switzerland
Esther Eppstein message salon, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Art Awards, Art 01, Basel, Switzerland
Kiefer Hablitzel Stipendien 2001, Switzerland

2000
Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
message salon @ Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
message salon, Zurich, Switzerland
Butchershop, Chicago, USA
message salon @ Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Performances as Spectralina (collaboration with Daitney)

2005
Helsinki Klub, Zurich, Switzerland

2004
Rodan, Chicago. USA
open-end, Chicago, USA

2003
Dannys, Chicago, USA
Sonotheque, Chicago, USA

2002
version 02, Museum for Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, USA
summer solstice, MCA, Chicago, USA
Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA
Double Door, Chicago, USA
Esther Eppstein message salon, Zuerich, Switzerland
Platte, Zuerich, Switzerland
30/30, Chicago, USA
Empty Bottle, Chicago, USA
Select Mediafestival 02, Chicago, USA

Performances with Tortoise

2003
metro, Chicago
5 city westcoast tour

Performances with Cushicle (Jeff Parker, Jason Ajemian, Nori Tanaka)

Oct 2003 -
weekly sessions at Rodan, Chicago,USA

1995-98 Treppstein, a collaboration with Esther Eppstein
2005 MUSÉE CoCo, Museum of Accomplices and Collaborators, Gallery Les Complices, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 MUSÉE CoCo, Museum of Accomplices and Collaborators @ Kunsthaus Thun

Screenings (selection)

Videotaxi, Zurich, Switzerland

"old habits die hard"message salon
@ Art in General, New York, USA
@ Kunstnernes Hus, Olso, Norway (2005)
@ Norwich Gallery, GB
@ Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turky
@ Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Berlin, Germany
@ Museum for Contemporary Art Syndey Australia

Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Senef2001,Seoul, Korea
Impakt 2001, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Pandaemonium 2001, London, UK
VideoEx 2001, Zurich, Switzerland
Intimate Technologies Parnu New Art Museum, Talin, Estonia
Vancouver Underground Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Netmage 2000. Bologna, Italy
Film Festival Split, Croatia
Viper, Basel, Switzerland
LA Filmforum, Los Angeles, USA
La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico
Anthology Filmarchives, New York, USA

Television Broadcasts / Funk und Fernsehen

2000
Kick Some Soul shown in Squeaky Wheel Media Art Show Cable Access / Buffalo Media Resources, Buffalo, NY

2001
Kick Some Soul shown in Metropolis, RTVE, Spanish National Public Network and ARTE

Publications / Publikationen

MUSÉE CoCo, Museum of Accomplices and Collaborators, les complices Édition / JRP/ Ringier
CD/VCD Fred Anderson Hamid Drake "Back together Again" Thrilljockey, 2004
Select, issue 3 and 5
Link Project Netmage, Piccola Biblioteca Oscar Mondadori
message salon , Andreas Zust Verlag, Zentralstrasse, Edition Patrick Frey
Material 5, Migros Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst
Freie Sicht Aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zurich
The Artist and her Bodily Self: Self-Reference in Digital Art/Media (Laurie Anderson, Selina Trepp, Char Davies) Christina Ljungberg, Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany

Awards / Stipendien und Preise

2005
Art Award Stadt Zurich, Switzerland
Cameron Award, University of Illinois Chicago

2004
Swiss Art Award 2004, Art Basel 2004

2003
Art Award Stadt Zurich, Switzerland

2000
Special Award for Video, Split Festival for new Film and Video, Croatia

1999
Review VideoArtPrize, Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Switzerland

LINK
3 Generations - 3 artists
3 Generationens - 3 Ausnahme-Künstlerinnen

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