- Sophie Ko
Sunday Art Fair
Oct 3-6, 2019
Booth 7
Ambika P3
University of Westminster,
35 Marylebone Road, London
NW1 5LS
Sophie Ko’s Temporal Geographies incarnate the idea of an artwork eternally suspended between creation and destruction, the image is generated and re-generated over and over again through a slow and relentless collapse of the material/matter. Made of thick blocks of pure pigment, these works present themselves as both unanimated abstractions and dynamic entities subject to a physical transformation over time. Emerging from a formal and conceptual negotiation between painting and sculpture, Sophie Ko’s works define/indicate a metaphor of the transience and mutability of the subject. The title of the works recalls a landscape, the image of a geological stratification defined by its own temporality.
Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale, 2019Pure pigment, 150×70 cm
Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale, 2019Pure pigment, 100x70 cm
Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale, 2019Pure pigment, 140x80 cm
Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale, 2019Pure pigment, 100x70 cm
Sophie Ko (Tbilisi, 1981) lives and works in Milan. At the core of her artistic practice lies the concept of time, which is explored in its intense symbolic interaction with the materials she employs – mostly ashes of burnt images and pure pigments – and the images created. The change and instability of materials in relation to the flow of time are some of the constants of her artistic research. The Temporal Geographies, for example, provide an exemplification of a series of works eternally suspended between the act of creation and that of destruction, where the image is constantly subjected to a continuous process of modification through the slow and relentless collapse of the material of which it is made. Conceived through a conceptual and formal negotiation between sculpture and painting, these works stage “a bond made of weight, pressure, gravity, and the destruction of time on images, but also of formation, depth, return, and rebirth with respect to the passage of time.” Meaningful metaphors of the caducity and mutability of existence, her works recall the trajectory of life that we trace, parallel to a slow but persistent collapsing movement.
Recent solo shows include: Renata Fabbri, Milan (2015, 2018 and 2023); Contemporary Locus, Bergamo (2023); Postmasters Rome, with Marta Kucsora (2023); Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2022); EAST Galerie, Strasbourg (2022); Galleria de’ Foscherari, Bologna (2016 and 2021–22); BUILDINGBOX, Milan (2021); BUILDING Gallery, Milan (2020); Ca’Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice (2019); The OpenBox, Milan (2018). She has participated in group exhibitions at Palazzo Ducale di Gubbio (2022); Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso (2021); Albergo delle Povere, Palermo (promoted by RISO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily, Palermo) (2021); Palazzo Barbò Torre Pallavicina, Bologna (2021); MAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone (2021); and Renata Fabbri, Milan (2020), among others. In 2016, Sophie Ko won the Lissone Prize for Painting organized by MAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone.
Sophie Ko (Tbilisi, 1981) lives and works in Milan. At the core of her artistic practice lies the concept of time, which is explored in its intense symbolic interaction with the materials she employs – mostly ashes of burnt images and pure pigments – and the images created. The change and instability of materials in relation to the flow of time are some of the constants of her artistic research. The Temporal Geographies, for example, provide an exemplification of a series of works eternally suspended between the act of creation and that of destruction, where the image is constantly subjected to a continuous process of modification through the slow and relentless collapse of the material of which it is made. Conceived through a conceptual and formal negotiation between sculpture and painting, these works stage “a bond made of weight, pressure, gravity, and the destruction of time on images, but also of formation, depth, return, and rebirth with respect to the passage of time.” Meaningful metaphors of the caducity and mutability of existence, her works recall the trajectory of life that we trace, parallel to a slow but persistent collapsing movement.
Recent solo shows include: Renata Fabbri, Milan (2015, 2018 and 2023); Contemporary Locus, Bergamo (2023); Postmasters Rome, with Marta Kucsora (2023); Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2022); EAST Galerie, Strasbourg (2022); Galleria de’ Foscherari, Bologna (2016 and 2021–22); BUILDINGBOX, Milan (2021); BUILDING Gallery, Milan (2020); Ca’Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice (2019); The OpenBox, Milan (2018). She has participated in group exhibitions at Palazzo Ducale di Gubbio (2022); Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso (2021); Albergo delle Povere, Palermo (promoted by RISO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily, Palermo) (2021); Palazzo Barbò Torre Pallavicina, Bologna (2021); MAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone (2021); and Renata Fabbri, Milan (2020), among others. In 2016, Sophie Ko won the Lissone Prize for Painting organized by MAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone.
- Sophie Ko
Contemporary Locus 15, Bergamo
Sept 16 – Nov 5 , 2023
Opening Sept 16, 5 pm
Curated by Paola Tognon
- Sophie Ko
Sept – Oct 24, 2022
Museo Marino Marini, Florence
Curated by Marcella Cangioli and Antonella Nicola
- Sophie Ko,
- Serena Vestrucci,
- Lulù Nuti
Feb 3-5, 2023
Main Section
Pav. 25 – Booth B27
- Sophie Ko,
- Matthieu Haberard,
- Lulù Nuti
Nov 4-6, 2022
Main Section
Hall Red – Booth 11
