Kinsey/DesForges is delighted to welcome Düsseldorf-based artist Angelika J. Trojnarski to Los Angeles for her second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will open on September 12th with an artist’s reception from 6-9pm, and will continue through October 10th.
Variegated decay and abandonment are the protagonists of Trojnarski’s work—dissolving dwellings and orphaned amusement parks, rusted ship hulls and the rickety edifices of a civilization desperately denying its own condition and fate. Focusing on the architectural remains and industrial excess of an economic fall-out, Trojnarski examines how humanity’s true strengths can be dwarfed by the greed and myopia of a dominant few, leaving those affected clinging to their residual past and wondering what went wrong.
In this investigation, Trojnarski creates a certain Baudelairean beauty; fractured planes propel outward, sustained by unfaltering scaffolds and solid foundations, all brilliantly illuminated under a wash of radiant light. A heroic optimism motivates the apparent wreckage, demonstrating the vast potentiality for change and regrowth. She explains, “This exhibition is a dichotomy of attraction and rejection, temptation and redemption.“ These “seductive still lifes of destruction,“ caught in arrested motion like a neglected construction site, hauntingly bear witness to the traumas within our collective memory. Like skeletons of their former selves, the images seem to lament an irrevocable loss while implicitly calling for an effort to move forward and rebuild the twisted spine of social conscience.
Born in Poland in 1979, Trojnarski lives and works in Düsseldorf, currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Kunstakademie). Her works have been shown in Germany and the U.S. as well as in London and Basel, Switzerland.
In this investigation, Trojnarski creates a certain Baudelairean beauty; fractured planes propel outward, sustained by unfaltering scaffolds and solid foundations, all brilliantly illuminated under a wash of radiant light. A heroic optimism motivates the apparent wreckage, demonstrating the vast potentiality for change and regrowth. She explains, “This exhibition is a dichotomy of attraction and rejection, temptation and redemption.“ These “seductive still lifes of destruction,“ caught in arrested motion like a neglected construction site, hauntingly bear witness to the traumas within our collective memory. Like skeletons of their former selves, the images seem to lament an irrevocable loss while implicitly calling for an effort to move forward and rebuild the twisted spine of social conscience.
Born in Poland in 1979, Trojnarski lives and works in Düsseldorf, currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Kunstakademie). Her works have been shown in Germany and the U.S. as well as in London and Basel, Switzerland.
