KAETHE KAUFFMAN: Yoga : Interiore Eterno

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KAETHE KAUFFMAN, Yoga : Interiore Eterno

“…Religious art glorifies the sacred experience. My imprint is personal and through my process, it is my inner world which is revealed for all to see.” 

                                                                                                      -- Kaethe Kauffman

Hawaii-based artist Kaethe Kauffman’s exhibition Yoga: Interiore Eterno is an installation of prints on silk that documents both physical movement and meditative stasis. Using a string dipped in paint, the artist ties the filament around a hand, knee, elbow, or torso, and when the body part is flexed, the movement is recorded as an off-printing. In Kauffman’s art, the body writes itself upon its own skin in a ritual of self-revelation. This act of marking and exposure is documented by Kauffman’s photographic images, which are digitally repeated and colored, drawn upon by hand in a variety of media and the vibrant results are printed on silk much like the large banners found in Buddhist temples. In an expansion of the body’s own “speech” through movement, Kaethe Kauffman’s images combine into larger fields of replication and mirroring, until the individual body is subsumed into a larger vision.

 

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Venice, IT - Castello 925 presents a solo exhibition of new work by Kaethe Kauffman opening 15 July and running through 13 November, 2022.

 

Hawaii-based artist Kaethe Kauffman’s exhibition Yoga: Interiore Eterno is an installation of prints on silk that documents both physical movement and meditative stasis. Using a string dipped in paint, the artist ties the filament around a hand, knee, elbow, or torso, and when the body part is flexed, the movement is recorded as a kind of off-printing. In Kauffman’s art, the body writes itself upon its own skin in a ritual of self-revelation. This act of marking and exposure is documented by Kauffman’s photographic images, which are digitally repeated and colored, drawn upon by hand in a variety of media and the vibrant results are printed on silk much like the large banners found in Buddhist temples. In an expansion of the body’s own “speech” through movement, Kaethe Kauffman’s images combine into larger fields of replication and mirroring, until the individual body is subsumed into a larger vision. 

 

About Kaethe Kauffman

A long-time practitioner of yoga and body movement, Kaethe Kauffman has been the subject of solo exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad including the Rensselaer Newman Foundation, Troy, NY; Allen Gallery, Memphis, TN; Lichtundfire Gallery and Walter Wickiser Gallery in NYC, NY; Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY; Banco Gallery, Bethlehem, PA; University of Nebraska, Omaha; Berry College, Mount Berry, GA; Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague; and the Sierra Arts Foundation Gallery, Reno, NV. Upcoming exhibitions include the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and Castello 925, Venice, IT. 

 

About Castello 925

Castello 925 is a multi-disciplined gallery which serves as a crucible for the visual arts, literature and culture. Founder Luca Caldironi envisioned a space dedicated to creativity, or rather cre-activity, an all-embracing 360-degree innovative nexus offering plenty of opportunity for imagination. Castello 925 is a gallery where experimental expressions of all kinds come to meet, collaborate, improvise, produce and construct; a place to present “finished” works that were built elsewhere, yet also a space where new ideas and new co-operations come to life. Castello 925 provides room to live and breathe — not just for exhibitions, but support for the everyday life of an artist, the quietude of  a writer’s research, or the exchange between passionate art-seekers and collectors.

 

More about Kaethe Kauffman: www.kaethekauffman.com

 

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