PIROUTTE - the art of spinning wind versus time - click to see show
FRESCA
Devon Dikeou
Orpheo Winter
Viach
Yang Qiuyi
This show brings together a veteran US femal artist, DEVON DIKEOU who just finished her PRIX DE ROME stipend for the USA. She for sure would have understood the new American Pope who openly dares to criticize the current 47th US president who weakens not only Europe but the alliance of countries that defend human rights, dignity and the rule of law according to the constitutions TO BE upheld at least in the USA for 250 FOR AN EXPERIMENT called DEMOCRACY Some famous people said, "the best of all horrible ways for ruling people - self rule" - self rule ? - do people know what they want and what they get ? Sorry, before I talk about fine ART but this 250 year old struggle with the best interpretation of the law of the land that wants to be self-governed ..... at least they defeated thankfully the German Austrian Italian aliences and a few years later the hitler alliances of fascists, anti-semits, racists und along the same lines.
Personal and historical memory is painful and can cost you your head. So why should we believe that art is a protection against totalitarianism when we have a current US president who orders the falsification of USA history? How can we defend basic freedoms from arbitrary rape and killings when the head of this democracy has pardonned neo nazis and jannuary 6th criminals who wanted to have people in the congress hanged. Piroutte jumping - is a neck breaking sport - but a very fine art that has a traditon to belong to the oldest and most enchanting way to please a court, a king, the street.
Pirouette dancing and thinking are beautiful acts of long training and learning and believing in an art that is called classic but without words. We are happy that Devon contributed this very personal and her own family concerning piece to this show. I simply want to point out, Daumenlutscher is a creation by artists for artists against the abuse of any system, any promise, any form of forcing. The founder and owner Rilke is a New York male but a person who escaped postwar brutality and landed where he landed and wants to point out - Devon’s work shows a family story of excellence related to her one year stay in Rome when a family member who is a real ballerina dancer for a world renowned company came to perform in Rome. The remainder of the meaning of this work might be found like so many in the current MOMA exhibiton of Marcel Duchemp and his ready made.
Viach is an artist in her 20s who studied media, writing and videography and has works with text and paintings, so far falling throught many cracks she prefers we do not address. The young larger NYC based artist is part of a land of immigrants and those who had problems at home finding a reason to leave the place of origin. People who work in home lands will may be never understand those consequences. She can sing various real songs of harassments and is unable to give a second name given our times but ours editing department intervenes: no last name - do not give away details.
Daumenlutscher is proud to present people who really are borderline but being borderline is not a condition to show since nobody needs to know what really goes on. Some ask what borders, what limits, what rules? For daumenlutscher, our times are characterized by abuse, by new forms of fascism or neo nazism and activities that are sinister on every socio-economic level and include authorities, institutions and also what is called AI.
The only German artist in this show, Orpheo Winter, has a brilliant artistic sounding name depending from what educational background you are coming. He has helped to co-organize Daumenlutscher affairs and we are thankful. He shows his own wall paper he fabricated with the background of a German art academy and knows well to articulate what and why he is doing what he is producing for this show. Daumenlutscher is not a commercial gallery but a place where like minded people meet to discuss and perform against disgust and hope to produce really, really good art. Needless we struggle to be respected by even the artists who work with us.
Yang Qiuyi is a Chinese artist who will not be able to attend due to her task of being a young mother in a foreign land that is not Germany. Her work is dealing with two dimensional space called oil on canvas. Simply from staring at the canvas anybody can tell, somebody here is overwhelmed with too much.... to do. The human body here is slashed on a grid of vibrant colors and all chiaroscuros give you rather a hint of what a life of an artist and mother in a land where your language is not spoken might be all about when resources are rare and family support is rather absent. Academic is her back ground nontheless but in these days nothing stands for quality and even a signature is a fiction that can be broken or start to hunt you.
Lets talk about the freedom to dance, to twist and to paint to excape the poltics of our lives and our borders and our rulers that is so burdensome when war and even nuclear peril in all fomrs is constantly in the news.
Fresca is a collective of women artists that started in 2020 and prefers to stay ananomous as life of female artists are complicated and underrepresented. This time, the gallery will present a sculpture work - unsigned and rescued from the spleen and ideal of fine art again in foreign lands. Daumenlutscher is representing FRESCA and this is their first representation with the gallery.
One of the founding members of the space, Rainer Ganahl will present a poem based on one of his works “selling the library” also presented during one of the Venice collateral events but not this year.
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DEVON DEKIOU * front floor - Piroutte
Yang Qiuyi - BACKGROUND
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FRESCA
installation view.. FRESCA - DOORHANDLE
DEVON DIKEOU - BACK GROUND - PIROUTTE
FRESCA 
VIACH
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ORPHEO WINTER