Angela de la Cruz
Barricade / Berlin
16 MAR until 13 APR 2024
Opening – Saturday, 16 MAR, 6 to 8 pm
Angela de la Cruz, „Barricade (Sofa)“, 2023, Sofa, armchair, 116 x 160 x 113 cm | 45 5/8 x 63 x 44 1/2 in
Angela de la Cruz, “Barricade (Chairs)”, 2023, Armchair, 101 x 100 x 97 cm | 39 3/4 x 39 3/8 x 38 1/4 in, Courtesy Galerie Krinziger
Incorporating paintings and furniture in pictorial installations that reshape and punctuate the space, “Barricade / Berlin” presents a recent body of work by Angela de la Cruz. In the exhibition at Galerie Thomas Schulte, de la Cruz continues to draw on the languages of minimalist painting and found objects in corporeal, emotionally weighted works that reveal processes of destruction and transformation. Here, they are characterized by defensive postures, unrelenting and firmly grounded, yet fragmentary and vulnerable—suggesting an exertion of power that could produce a shift at any moment.