The idea of Carte Blanche is to provide a platform for contemporary art now. Local and International creatives and artists will be given the opportunity to show their works in a virtual gallery online and a gallery space at the Aurora premises.
july 2022
Mischa Sanders
& Philipp Putzer
MISCHA SANDERS was born in 1994 in the Netherlands.The artist lives and works between Germany and France and is currently based in Dakar, Senegal. As a visual artist, she studied at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Besançon, France, and at the Hochschule für Bildende Küste in Dresden, Germany. In 2018 she went as an exchange student at INSAAC, Abidjan, and stayed six months at the Ivory Coast. Sanders has shown her artworks in the following solo exhibitions: 2019 Flying circles in your mind, Ex14. Dresden, Germany and in 2021 at the Biennale de Mulhouse, France. She has participated in numerous group exhibition and has realized two Duo Shows together with Philipp Putzer.
PHILIPP PUTZER was born in 1994 in Innsbruck, Austria and grew up in Italy. The artist lives and works between Germany and France and is currently based in Dakar, Senegal. The Italian artist studied sculpture at the Kunsthochschule in Dresden, Germany and did his master with Prof. C. E. Wolff. In 2018 Putzer went as an exchange student at INSAAC, Abidjan, and stayed six months at the Ivory Coast. In 2016 he did Rally Dresden Ostrava, in Dul Michal, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 2017 he went to Raizvanguarda, Residency, Gois, Portugal. In 2018 he did Bowebird Fliptric, in Alta Art Space und Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden and in 2019 Pearl, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany as well as Mountains of the Moon, mit Mischa Sanders, INSAAC, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. In 2020 Putzer took part in the exhbition Atomic, curated by Schimmel Projects, Bressanone, Italy and D ́autres terres en vue, Museum Belfort, France as well as Existenz, Kapitel 2, Oktogon, Dresden, Germany. In 2021 Putzer works have been shown at Tape, Oberüberkarger, Dresden,Germany (Soloshow), VRAOM, online exhibition with Mischa Sanders, mit OH Gallery Dakar, Senegal, Görlitzer Art, Art in public space, Görlitz, Germany. Open Atelier, Atelier Menore, Menoux, France, Suffle Azimuth, mit Mischa Sanders, OH Gallery, Dakar, Senegal, Realisme onrique: habiter le réel, mit Mischa Sanders, OH Gallery, Dakar. Musee sous-marine, Underwater Museum with Mischa Sanders, NGO Oceanium, Dakar, Senegal.
In 2021 the artist Duo realized the exhibition Le Musée sous-marin, ONG Océanium de Dakar, Oh Gallery in Dakar, Senegal as well as VRAOM, Rockefeller Center Dresden, mit OHGallery in Germany and Ouverture d’atelier, Atelier Menore, Menoux in France.
„Creativity takes courage“
About
Mischa Sanders & Philipp Putzer
SUN
The 5th edition of Carte Blanche welcomes Mischa Sanders and Philipp Putzer as its protagonists. The two 1994 born visual artists form a duo of contemporary sculptors and work with multiple mediums. By reinventing ways of investing space through historical and ancestral techniques, they pose, together, new views on the questions of urbanism and ecology of our time. No question of stopping at the mastery of a technique or a material: whether it is pouring concrete, plaster, giving shape to wood or even earth, moulding ceramics and bronze or polishing polyester it is a real dialogue that takes place between palpable realities and ideas. Something raw emerges. Going back to the origins, to the so-called primitive constructions represents for the artists a continuity between times. Paradoxically, with their apparent calm, Mischa Sanders and Philipp Putzer have chosen to inscribe their artistic practice in the pulse of modernity, following the movement of West African megacities as the duo currently lives and works in Dakar, Senegal. The selection of works shown at Carte Blanche #5 with its title SUN is an overview of recent works some done as individuals some as a duo. Interesting to understand how the different approaches on some works and topics seem to vanish in others where the artists worked with four hands. Works in ceramic by Mischa Sanders recall the depth of the sea and its inhabitants.
Mischa likes to work with materials that first began by drawing. Through the medium she picks up, she includes the process of creation in her works. For example, her clay pieces, which are very rigid, were initially worked using the modeling properties of moistened clay. The outdoor sculpture that resembles an enormous flower is made of concrete, clay, and fiberglass and many parts are inscribed in the material, that appeal to us. Hammered, filed, sawn - the works of the artist duo vibrate under the weight of the transformations. The works of Mischa Sanders and Philipp Putzer have a sonic allure, exuding a certain roughness.
Philipp Putzers sculptures (helmets) made of polished polyester with the title "Say goodbye to the wind“ recall motorbike helmets, the insides taken out, the shell polished like a pearl, the visors speckled as a symbols of speed, made to pause, reduced to their essentials, their form. Collages transformed in to digital prints show pages with advertisements for torn out of glossy magazines, covered with kinesio tape. Kinesio tape as a hint to the fast-moving life slowed down in its fleeting moment and captured in the moment. Philipp Putzer plays with apparent opposites in his works, reduces creative chaos to its essence without depriving it of the freedom of being. The freedom of being, on the contrary: the artist allows the material he works with to unfold its own individual characteristic whether paper, plastic, wood or concrete, everything eventually takes on its own direction at some point. Philipp's artistic practice is related to arte povera in its use of raw materials such as plaster and clay, but also in the statement of his works. He aims to ensure that the messages emerging from his work are open to discussion and to various interpretations, but above all are accessible to all.
The collaboration of the two artists consist in a process of understanding and balance led by their single practices. Some pieces fit together and are found naturally, others, from their birth, are made to form a harmonious whole. Committed to a path that leads them to draw on the roots of humanity, the artists transcribe a precise vision of current issues. Whether urban or ecological, it is in a whisper that the alchemists of matter turn brutality into a suspended sweetness.
The work shown at the Aurora
All prices are without VAT. They are sold directly by the artist to the customer with a certificate of authenticity and invoice.
Philipp Putzer
Say goodbye to the wind
Motorradhelm, Polyesterharz, Pigment. 30cm x 25cm x 20 cm
Euro 1.500
Philipp Putzer
Tape
Digitaldruck auf Papier, 40cm x 29 cm
Euro 200-380
Mischa Sanders
Pinna nobilis 1
Keramik mit Glasur. 82cm x 30cm x 8cm
Euro 1.500
Philipp Putzer
ohne Titel
Polyesterharz, Glasfaser, Pigment. 35cm x 25cm x 20cm
1.500
Mischa Sanders
No Title
Tinte, Kreide, kohle, auf Papier
72 x 52cm, with frame
700 Euro
Mischa Sanders
No Title
Tinte, Kreide, kohle, auf Papier
72 x 52cm, with frame
700 Euro
Mischa Sanders
Mischa Sanders
Pinna nobilis 2
Keramik mit Glasur. 70cm x 28cm x 8cm
Euro 1.300
Philipp Putzer
ohne Titel
Fiberglas, Schwarzes Pigment, Polyesterharz, 50cm
1.500 Euro
Philipp Putzer
Say goodbye to the wind
Motorradhelm, Polyesterharz, Pigment. 25cm x 20cm x 20 cm
Euro 1.300
Philipp Putzer
ohne Titel
Tinte auf Papier. divers
Euro 200-380
Mischa Sanders
No Title
Tinte, Kreide, kohle, auf Papier
72 x 52cm, with frame
700 Euro
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Event Photos
THE IDEA
The aim is to curate the Hotel’s art specifically - we want there to be good stories and a lasting wellbeing for the guests as well as try to make them have a unique and distinctive experience. The interplay of art design and the Hotel Aurora’s architecture is what characterizes this special place in South Tyrol. The historic hotel in Merano is marked by art treasures and designer pieces that one can find throughout the hotel as well as in every room and this is what makes the Aurora so outstanding. Carte Blanche will host about 6 art exhibitions per year and is keen on giving artists the opportunity to also create site specific works for the hotel that will be shown permanently. The shown art works as well as art editions of works on display will be available at the Hotels Aurora’s own art corner.
THE CURATOR
The upcoming exhibitions will be curated by the freelance curator Eva von Ingram Harpf. Curator Eva von Ingram Harpf, 1987, after graduating from Bocconi University in Milan with a thesis in Art Banking worked at Johann König Gallery in Berlin, as well as Ghetta Gallery, Ortisei and holds a Master´s degree in Contemporary Art from Sothebys London. Since 2012 she works as an independent curator and art adviser and is based in Bolzano, Südtirol, Italy. She is a member of the board of ar/ge Kunst Bozen and founder of y-contemporary platform.