Frauke Dannert | Art Düsseldorf

Dannert's formal language is based on the artistic process of so-called paper cut-outs. For this purpose, the artist collects - similar to the cinematic found-footage principle - images of architectural concrete buildings, plant scans or natural objects, which she fuses with each other from a bundle of her own photographs as well as various photographic material from print media and the internet. Dannert works on the image material in a process of reproduction and deconstruction, destabilizing spatial regularities and alienating the original objects. 

 

The resulting forms are reminiscent of the "Objet Trouvé" of the French architect Le Corbousier, who in the 1930s began to build up a constantly growing collection of unclassifiable and ambiguously readable objects. Like Le Corbusier, Dannert is interested in an alternative world of forms that raises questions, provokes assumptions and playfully challenges the eye. 

 

For the transfer onto various image carriers, consisting of paper, raw cotton or the bare wall, Dannert uses a graphite process, which connects her works beyond the image carriers. Dannert's works not only break with the limits of the material and technical processes, the artist also defies given spatial structures by appropriating forms, light and shadow and thus creating new spaces of perception and experience.