ART-REVIEW: Accrochage

In the group exhibition “Accrochage” that occupies all the three levels of Galerie Karsten Greve, Lawrence Carroll, Claire Morgan and Georgia Russell participate artworks that have conceptual but also visual affinity and evolution, through their use of means of expression. The artworks of the Scottish artist Georgia Russell stand out, she creates a series of works that oscillate between sculpture and three-dimensional object in space. Russell finds the objects, that she processes with a clinical scalpel, at flea markets or antiques shops and as Russell says “Cutting out is a sort of freedom of expression. For me it’s drawing, but I draw with a scalpel”. With delicate gestures she cuts the papers from prints, newspapers or sometimes from entire old books etc… transforming them into dreamlike abstract landscapes like in “Chloros I” (2018) or in “Winter” (2018) where the white with whitish colors resembles a lake or a wave of water. All her artworks incorporate the code of transformation and transition, through minimalism, perfectly well-developed simplicity and with the transparency created between the null space and the wholeness of the cut paper. The dimensions and the way we perceive the things around us are changing, because Georgia Russell by shifting the boundaries between figurative and non-figurative, creates a parallel and charming dream world!–Efi Michalarou