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OBJECT-HUNTER
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Isabel Ott collects flotsam from the shores of our conciousness. Her favored hunting grounds are beaches after a stormy night, urban industrial ruins, abandoned farmhouses and the flea- and supermarkets of the world. She captures the trash of consumer society, cadavers, discarded artifacts of everyday life, wood left-overs, animal bones, kitsch, ect. They are fragments in the area of the conflict between nature and civilisation, magic and modernism. |
They speak to her: „Take me, tell my story, I am not yet finished.“ Isabel Ott gives these apparently worthless or doomed things a new significance. The findings are combined associatively, decorated aestheticly and thereby brought to new life. |
Her Materialcollages, so called Wolperdinger, are silent witnesses of the history of an animal, an individual, or a society. They document the tracks of degeneration as an expression of life. The 1. Generation of Wolperdinger „Generation of Godparents” are on a touring exhibition since August 1st. The actual show presents 11 hunting trophies of a new kind — colorfull, playfull and anarchic. |
The exhibition guests are welcome to apply for a godparenthood for a limited time period. The godparents become part of a competition in which they appoint the destination of the Wolperdinger - and by doing this, they become a part of the artwork themselves. Documentation, further pieces of information and current stations to be found on this webpage. Production: Unique Karma Association Accompanying the exhibition, a limited edition of numbered and signed prints have been published by the artist. Further exhibition cycles are in process. |
ISABEL OTT |
Born 1967, lives and works in Berlin. Since 1995 freelancer as a setdesigner for feature films, music videos and advertisment in cooperation with Zoran Bihac, Detlev Buck, Buddy Gioninazzo, Ralf Schmerberg and many more. |
1996 Examination on the theme: „Art & Coincedance”, 1995 Scholarship at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain. 1989–1996 Studies at the HDK Berlin, major in sculpture. |