„Imagine that you are a raindrop. It begins to rain and you hit the ground and flow across streets, parking lots, yards, construction sites, farm fields… Along the way, you pick up litter, oil, grease, metals, rubber, dirt, fertilizers, pesticides, animal waste, and other things left behind. All of these pollutants mix with the rain and flow away as nonpoint source pollution. » (Illinois Environmental Protection Agency).
In Hendrik Czakainski’s previous exhibition at Urban Spree Galerie, « Switch Over » (2018), the famed „invisible hand“ of Adam Smith finally achieved its predictable self-strangulation and hinted towards the obliteration of the age of Anthropocene. His powerful works laid bare the rusted skeletons of what was once qualified as habitat. A post-architectural world – and beyond -, in which life subsided on the fringes, a derelict, abstract and borderless Universum, morbidly fascinating.
For „Nonpoint Sources„, his 4th solo show at Urban Spree, Hendrik Czakainski fills his large wall sculptures with the particles and raindrops of our contaminated civilization, building his imaginary constructions only to let them succumb to the invisible and poisonous streams that run through it. Huge fracture lines dislocate high density environments, Earth is scorched beyond repair, structures are flooded with colored poisons that irrigate the veins of our industrial civilization.
We do not only see the structures, we see the flooding and the elements, we see how the artist skillfully paints and distorts the structures he so patiently erected.
Hendrik Czakainski
Nonpoint Sources
Solo Show
Berlin Art Week Opening: Wednesday 09.09.2020 at 18:00 in presence of the artist
Exhibition Dates: 09.09.2020 – 10.10.2020
Wed-Fri 14:00-19:00 (Sa: 12:00-19:00)
Urban Spree Galerie
RAW Gelände
Revaler Str. 99
10245 Berlin
S+U Warschauer Str.
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