Melike Kara
Friday, 2 May 2014
Work from Real Sorbet at Kunstraum Ortloff.
Melike Kara’s work makes specific reference to the last remnants of modernism. Her pared back metal sculptural forms illustrate the streamlined potential for poetry within the sleek cool of industrial design. Her use of colour suggests a revisiting of 50’s America, with a nostalgic glimpse at the west coast cool of Californian chic. Her painted works, whilst acknowledging the history of painting which precedes it, alert the viewer to the action of her very specific mark making process, whilst simultaneously they hint at a freedom, cut loose from the trappings of the painting canon. Real Sorbet illustrates the intricate relationship contemporary art has to its past whilst playing with a newer, fresher vision of what we may expect to come.