Tape Modern is pleased to announce our biggest event to date:
Earthly Delights a group exhibition Opening, Friday September 25th and a big after party for the art fair weekend.
Earthly Delights, Tape Modern No.11
Curated by Anna Erickson
In cooperation with Heidestrasse galleries and Halle am Wasser
Opening: Friday September 25th 6pm-3am
Exhibition duration: Saturday September 26th and Sunday September 27th 11am-6pm.
Location: TAPE, Heidestrasse 14. 10557 BERLIN S-BHF
Featuring the work of 13 artists, Earthly Delights takes its name from Hieronymus Bosch’s iconic painting from 1503, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which depicts across three panels God presenting his creation of Adam and Eve, a bacchanal orgy of humans, hybrid creatures and otherworldly animals and, finally, a hellscape in which eternal suffering and damnation are portrayed in terrifying scenes of torture
and anguish. Considered by many to represent a sequential narrative of mankind’s initial state of purity in Eden, subsequent corruption and ultimate punishment in Hell, Bosch’s work builds on symbolic systems that reference alchemy, astrology, heresy and the recesses of the human psyche to form a complex pantheon of desire and depravity that is consistently acclaimed as one of the most significant artistic
achievements ever created. The painting is viewed as a moral warning against lust and worldly pleasure and has been described as "an erotic derangement that turns us all into voyeurs."
The work presented in Earthly Delights is a contemporary interpretation of the prevailing themes encompassed by Bosch’s masterpiece. The Berlin-based artist duo Awst & Walther invoke original sin with their piece Temptation, while Hannes Bend’s
life-size candy sculpture, a composite of both male and female anatomy, references the hybrid forms rendered in Bosch’s central panel. Torsten Solin’s absurd dream-like landscapes are both sexually provocative and utterly grotesque, while Vincent Wenzel presents Freakfries, a masterpiece large-scale painting depicting the chaos of
the subconscious. John Miserendino creates a modern day and abstracted version of The Triumph of Death from 1562 by Peter Brueghel the Elder which resides in the Prado Museum directly across from The Garden of Earthly Delights. Angela Liosi creates tiny diorama scenes of violence and murder and Antonio Santin and Sophie Reinhold portray the darker side of humanity in their paintings. Kenno Apatrida will produce a performance specifically for the exhibition during the opening on Friday September 25 using death masks and the nude female body in a bacchanalia tribute to Hieronymus Bosch.
The main hall of Tape will be specially transformed into an exhibition space and burlesque club with a bar. In addition to the exhibition there will be a separate party in the club starting at 11pm.
Earthly Delights will feature work from the following artists; Kenno Apatrida , Awst & Walther, Hannes Bend, Amir Fattal, Nir Hod, Filippos Kavakas, Angela Liosi, John Miserendino, Cornelia Renz, Sophie Reinhold, Antonio Santin, Torsten Solin, and Vincent Wenzel.
The exhibition is curated by Anna Erickson, private art dealer living and working in Berlin and New York, former sales director for Gagosian Gallery, New York and former Director of Yvon Lambert, New York. Erickson has a BA in Art History and MA in Art Administration.
