Simone Schardt
Simone Schardt, Untitled (An idiosyncratic relationship to Conceptual Art, to the Unconscious structured as language and Self), 2008, typewriter and pencil on paper, 21 x 14.5 cm
Simone Schardt (born 1971 in Spremberg, Germany) lives and works in Zurich and Berlin. She obtained her MFA at Berlin's Universität der Künste and the Royal College of Art, London. Since 2003 Schardt and Wolf Schmelter organize Kinoapparatom, an instant cinema on the move.
Simone Schardt’s drawings precisely displayed on museum tables and showcases seem strangely cryptic and are in their formal astringency reminiscent of Conceptual Art. On small yellowed papers, Schardt meticulously arranges diagrams and rhomb patterns. Often a typewrite is used to place single letters or words into these quasi-mathematical equations. Consequently, an untitled 8 x 4 inch drawing shows two interlaced circles known from arithmetic intersections. With typewriter, Schardt has written “SEIN - SUBJEKT” (existence - subject) into one circle and “SINN - DAS ANDERE” (sense - the other) into another circle, while she titles the intersection area in-between them as “NICHT-SEIN” (non-existence). Each individual drawing is placed in a complex array with other sketches. Thus, Schardt creates a system of symbols referring to Conceptual Art, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, and linguistic. (Excerpt from text by Raphael Gygax)
Past Exhibition at SCHAU ORT:
Simone Schardt & Mariana Castillo Deball, April 17 - May 29, 2010
Simone Schardt’s drawings precisely displayed on museum tables and showcases seem strangely cryptic and are in their formal astringency reminiscent of Conceptual Art. On small yellowed papers, Schardt meticulously arranges diagrams and rhomb patterns. Often a typewrite is used to place single letters or words into these quasi-mathematical equations. Consequently, an untitled 8 x 4 inch drawing shows two interlaced circles known from arithmetic intersections. With typewriter, Schardt has written “SEIN - SUBJEKT” (existence - subject) into one circle and “SINN - DAS ANDERE” (sense - the other) into another circle, while she titles the intersection area in-between them as “NICHT-SEIN” (non-existence). Each individual drawing is placed in a complex array with other sketches. Thus, Schardt creates a system of symbols referring to Conceptual Art, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, and linguistic. (Excerpt from text by Raphael Gygax)
Past Exhibition at SCHAU ORT:
Simone Schardt & Mariana Castillo Deball, April 17 - May 29, 2010