UPSTAIRS: Andrea Büttner

13 Jan-10 Feb 2018

Overview

Painted Stones, 2017, is a series of 37 black and white gelatine silver prints depicting images of painted stones made by artists such as David Hammons, Annemarie von Matt, Kurt Schwitters and Fahrelnissa Zeid, as well as late Palaeolithic age cave stones, amongst others. The images were found during Andrea Büttner’s research into painted stones, drawn from online catalogues, museum websites, auction sites etc. Büttner often makes direct references to other historical cultural figures and artists as a means to acknowledge that artists are implicated within a set of ideologies and contexts. The series also brings to the fore a re-evaluation of marginal and undervalued materials and techniques, continuing Büttner’s interest in the concepts and affects of fallibility, littleness and humility.