Dans la série "Le monde de l'art selon E.T.", Monika Sosnowska à la galerie Captain et Petzel à berlin E.T. , sculpture « sociale » et nomade d'Antoine Mercier a décidé de découvrir sur son E.T. mobile électrique le monde de l'art, collectionneurs, galeries, ateliers d'artiste, monuments, musées et expositions. Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Petzel Gallery, New York opened a joint gallery in Berlin in fall 2008. The gallery, a 1,300 square meter glass-encased modernist building preserved from the Socialist Era, is located in one of the city’s historical landmarks on Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin-Mitte. The former ‘Kunst im Heim’ gallery of the GDR, is a classic example of East German Modernism, built in 1964 by architects Kaiser and Franek to house a display of fine and applied arts from the countries of the Eastern Block. Monika Sosnowska (born 1972 in Ryki, Poland) studied at the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (1993–1998), and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1999–2000. In 2003 she received the Bâloise Prize at Art Basel as well as the Polityka's Passport award given by Poland’s most prestigious weekly. Sosnowska lives in Warsaw. She studied in the painting department at Poznan, but during her final years at the academy she found that the ‘painting started to escape her canvas.’[1] She began to create works that played with both two-dimensional painting and three-dimensional space, finally giving up the canvas altogether and instead using the space itself as a sort of 3-D painting. Sosnowska treats space as a medium for her works, always designing projects to fit into a specific space. Often she modifies pre-existent architecture, transforming the physical space into mental space and playing with the viewer’s perceptions. She has explained: ‘I am especially interested in the moments when architectural space begins to take on the characteristics of mental space.’ Source Wikipédia Plus d'infos sur le site www.ame-gallery.fr et la page Facebook Ame-Gallery friends

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Le monde de l’art selon E.T. Mars 2014 Berlin
Monika Sosnowska, "Stairway"
I regret that I was not allowed to
film inside the gallery, it has "
no interest for the artist" Monika
Sosnowska , according to the
words of the representatives of
Capitain Petzel Gallery.
I took pictures through the
double-glazed window and I
apologize to the artist for the
blurred aspect of her work
Antoine Mercier
Berlin18mars2014,galerieCapitainPetzel

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Monika Sosnowska (born 1972 in
Ryki, Poland) studied at the
Painting Department of the
Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan
(1993–1998), and the
Rijksakademie van Beeldende
Kunsten in Amsterdam (1999–
2000. In 2003 she received the
Bâloise Prize at Art Basel as well
as the Polityka's Passport award
given by Poland’s most
prestigious weekly
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Monika Sosnowska lives in
Warsaw. She studied in the
painting department at Poznan,
but during her final years at the
academy she found that the
‘painting started to escape her
canvas.’[1] She began to create
works that played with both two-
dimensional painting and three-
dimensional space, finally giving
up the canvas altogether and
instead using the space itself as
a sort of 3-D painting.
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Le monde de l’art selon E.T. Mars 2014 Berlin, Monika Sosnowska
(Capitain Petzel gallery)

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Monika Sosnowska treats space
as a medium for her works,
always designing projects to fit
into a specific space. Often she
modifies pre-existent
architecture, transforming the
physical space into mental space
and playing with the viewer’s
perceptions. She has explained:
‘I am especially interested in the
moments when architectural
space begins to take on the
characteristics of mental space.
Source: Wikipedia
Le monde de l’art selon E.T. Mars 2014 Berlin, Monika Sosnowska
(Capitain Petzel gallery)

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In 2003 she took part in the 50th
Venice Biennale, contributing
The Corridor to the Arsenale
exhibition ‘Clandestine’, curated
by Francesco Bonami.
Sosnowska created an
architectural intervention that was
also an optical illusion. Her
institutional-looking corridor
appeared to stretch on a long
distance and it was only upon
entering it that the viewer realized
that the space became narrower
and lower making it impossible to
reach the doors at the end and
remain upright.
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In 2007 Sosnowska represented
Poland at the 52nd International
Venice Biennale, presenting ‘1:1’
which crammed a bent fragment
of modern architecture into the
Polonia Pavilion, a 1930s
building. Sosnowska wrote: ‘It
should look as if two buildings
have been constructed in the
same space and have to live in
symbiosis, or rather to parasite
on each other. To fight, or rather
to wrestle with each other. In
reality my intention is to create a
surreal and impossible situation.
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Other major international
exhibitions by Sosnowska include
a solo show at New York's
Museum of Modern Art in 2006,
for which she used the existing
space to create a three-
dimensional sculpture of
geometric forms; ‘Loop’ at
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in
2007, a Moebius strip-like
architectural intervention; ‘Monika
Sosnowska, Andrea Zittel.
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Other major international
exhibitions by Sosnowska include
’ at Schaulager, Basel, in 2008;
and ‘Untitled’ for K21
Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf,
a de Chirico-esque response to
the extraordinary architecture and
history of the museum, on display
until 15 April 2012.
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“Monika Sosnowska's works are
in continuous dialogue with
modernism: with its utopian
ideology as well as with the
social and political ambitions it
became a sign for. Her particular
focus is Constructivism, which
turned its gaze to architecture as
the field that pioneered
technological progress.”
Source: Nirith NelsonLe monde de l’art selon E.T. Mars 2014 Berlin, Monika Sosnowska
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”Her works relate to the Socialist
construction that was prevalent in
Communist states, a building
style that produced the
environment she herself grew up
in, and was shaped by politically-
influenced regulations. Over the
decades, this style of
construction turned into an
expression of stagnation, but by
the time the resulting harm was
evident, it was no longer possible
to destroy the mega-structures
that housed as many as a
thousand families with no options
for relocation.”
Source: Nirith Nelson
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“The circular motion, which is
integral both to the initial,
inspirational object and to the
action of squashing, creates what
Adam Budak called Sosnowska's
"performative installations." The
objects in these installations are
characterized by an inherent
dynamic force which engenders
the sculpture's unique
individuality.”
Source: Nirith NelsonLe monde de l’art selon E.T. Mars 2014 Berlin, Monika Sosnowska
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