Kewenig Gallery presented Sandra Vasquez de la Horra in the "New Talents" section (formerly known as "Förderkoje" of Art Cologne 2006. Wolfgang Schöddert talks about the gallery, its two venues in Cologne and Mallorca, and the work of Sandra Vasquez de la Horra. Art Cologne, November 2, 2006.
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00:00 I'm Wolfgang Schürrath and I'm working with Jule Kiefernisch since 20 years when she opened her gallery in Frechen, close to Cologne.
00:09 It was a place in an old manor house, very beautiful landscape and there we had the possibility to do exhibitions very close in relation to a special kind of architecture and also to a very beautiful garden, made in the style of the 18th century.
00:27 So it was an exhibition space, very different from what was usually found in Cologne in the city during the 80s.
00:37 Did you also have sculptures in this gallery?
00:40 We also had sculptures and very early aim was to build up a sculpture garden in relation to the nature we had. Part time it worked, we had Rue Crine, we had American artists and we had Ian Hamilton Finlay very early.
00:58 During that time when he was invited to design the garden for the bicentenary for the French Revolution. So it was a good situation there.
01:10 So now you have two galleries, one here and one in Mallorca.
01:14 We have one gallery in Cologne and one gallery in Palma and the Palma branch is based on or was based on the offer of a very beautiful space there.
01:26 So it is not the nearest possibility to open up a gallery in Palma but the offer for the space was quite nice and interesting.
01:41 So we thought it could be good to install the galleries there and to try what is possible with our artists on the Spanish market and especially in the place where people met from a lot of different situations.
01:57 The Spanish market is important for you because you also said that you are at ARCO next year?
02:03 We are very close to ARCO as well as we have been at ARCO this year and we have been at ARCO very early in the 80s and it is always a try.
02:15 So the market is very international and it nearly makes no difference if you are in Cologne or in ARCO or in Paris because very interested collectors go to every fair and one is nearer and one is a bit more far away.
02:33 But they are always looking for a certain kind of atmosphere and to be in ARCO in the spring is more nice than to be in Berlin in November.
02:45 We are in a special booth here.
02:49 It is a so called new talent. Here on the art fair it is called a new talent. Formerly it was known as Förderkohle and we have Sandra Vazquez de la Hora, a woman that was born in Chile in 1967.
03:09 She grew up in Chile and came 10 years ago to Germany. She studied in Dusseldorf at the academy by Rosemarie Trockel.
03:21 What she is doing, she is making as drawings as you can see, pencil on paper and after this drawing she is putting it in wax and this gives a certain special surface.
03:41 She told me she has some images in her mind and at a certain point she is sitting down and bringing the images on the paper.
03:51 How is this made? For example this vase here?
04:00 As far as I know it has to do with the waxing. The wax is more or less hot and more or less wet and it is going like this.
04:12 It has to do with the quality of the pencil. When the pencil is more smooth you have it also like this a little bit more washed.
04:27 It is quite personal.
04:30 Absolutely. Here she makes a difference between the good ones, good situations and erotic situations and harder ones and these ones that are more impressed by violence and war.
04:46 The border is in the middle. This is the peace and this is the war.
04:54 Are the pieces sold separately or are these three rooms?
05:00 We sell them separately. The installation is her work so the arrangement has to be in this way. It is part of her artwork but we sell and this is also intended. The works as one piece.