Skin and Desire | Alfons Knogl & TG

Alfons Knogl & TG

Skin and Desire

24. June – 31. July

mental space HR1

Skin-And-Desire Alfons-Knogl installation view

Alfons Knogl, Precondition (Marker), 2021, Polyester

Alfons Knogl, Precondition (Shaver) 2021, Polyester

Alfons Knogl, Pool (Black)

Alfons Knogl, Pool (Black) 2022, Polyester, print on sandals, 30×30×10 cm Alfons Knogl, Sleeveless (Black) 2022, Polyester, print on forex, 29×19×3 cm

Alfons Knogl, Pool (Black) 2022, Polyester, print on sandals, 30×30×10 cm

Alfons Knogl, Pool (Black), detail 2022, Polyester, print on sandals, 30×30×10 cm

TransGena, Insane Virtuality, 2004, analogue photo collage, 59,5×42 cm

TransGena, Happiness and back.., 2004, analogue photo collage, 59,5×42 cm

TransGena, Sands play Sole ., 2004, analogue photo collage, 59,5×42 cm

TransGena, untitled, 2006, analogue photography, 10×15 cm

Alfons Knogl, Precondition (Lighter), 2021, Polyester

Skin & Desire installation view

TransGena, untitled, 2006, analogue photo collage, 50×70 cm

TransGena, untitled, 2004, analogue photo collage, 59,5×42 cm

TransGena, nothing... NOTHING is worth dying!, 2004, analogue photo collage, 59,5×42 cm

Alfons Knogl

Alfons Knogl, Precondition (Marker), 2021, Polyester

Alfons Knogl (detail)

Photo Credits: Courtesy mental space gallery & the artists

Press release
‘Skin and Desire’ exhibition at mental space HR1, includes a body of small-scale polyester sculptures that were born out of a period of production during 2021 at Alfons Knogl studio in Cologne. Amorphic shaped objects are connected to the casted objects of use. The appearance of these sculptures is reminiscent of totems from the future. The strong figurative presence of the human body in a modified condition dominates the current presentation. TG’s never before shown pornographic photo collages are mixed with earlier works from 2004, which are at once comic and dark, perverse and serious, grotesque and simply sexy.

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