Isa Genzken

Gemma:
To be honest I really didn't feel like reading journals this week, due to headaches ETC. So after about a hour of flipping though them and not really liking anything much I was ready to go home. I had one last look around the shelves and one of Isa Genzken's sculptures caught my eye on the cover of ArtForum November 2005. I forgot to look up what it was called but it was fairly junky, basically just a pile of found objects. It took me a while to figure out why i liked it and i think it was because everything was really simply unified. The other works featured in the article had a similar appeal. All these objects which functionally seem totally unrelated come together and work together some how. Sometimes it's colour, transparency, size, shape, whatever. There is something quite delicate about it even though the final products are completely chaotic.

When i had a look at some more of her stuff on the internet i realised how eclectic her art actually is. I couldn't even find a good example of what i was talking about before. But i really like what she's done with most of her stuff. She has some really messy looking sculptures and then she does some really neat and contained stuff which is sometimes really abstract but sometimes more realistic like these ones i found.

also i really like this one

which is from a huge series she did called Empire Vampire which included the middle photo of the three above. I think it's an interesting example of how much her work varies in style even within the same series.