Spotlight
Ulu Braun - Masked World
Amicitia, Nieuweweg 1a Leeuwarden
opening times: tue - sun 11.00-18.00h
Masked World consists of two Dutch premieres of Braun’s latest films and collages. Braun belongs to a new generation of critical romantics and shows beauty and repulsion in artificial paradises. His area of expertise is a picturesque context of German lightness and irony. Works by German artists Uwe Henneken, Neo Raucj, Kai Althof, bur also Anglo-Saxon artists such as Laura Owens and Martha Colburn manifest itself in a similar way. Heavy subjects are addressed sharply in Braun’s work through modern irony, mystique and shock effect.
SüDWEST, 1:41 min., 2006/2007
Südwest is a detailed and utopian construction of a landscape, which unites aspects of tradition and globalisation. In the 360-degree camera movement the beauty lies at the beginning of horror and at the same time loveliness is born out of abhorrence. The video combines idyllic scenes from the European tradition with the catalogue-promises of modern tourist industry to form a panorama, which thus recreates the poetic mystique of things so common to our eyes.
Rhubarber Boy, 15 min., 2007
His latest film tells the story of infantile desires. A boy alone in a rhubarb wood keeps an old comic collage. He tries to understand the colourful images, but can’t solve the riddle until the characters step out of their frame. The joy of the innocent boy of not being alone anymore submits quickly in to a state of shock. In the world of dreams the child becomes a murderer.
biography
Ulu Braun (1976 Schongrai/Germany) has been inspired by graffiti. Since 1995 his artistic ways of expression vary from drawings and paintings to collages and film. Braun’s work is full of poetry, expression, neo-primitivism and social critique, and has been shown more and more worldwide. Braun also exhibits his work from 9 September until 30 October 2007 in Gallerie Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam.
