Capitain Petzel is thrilled to present Center, an exhibition of works by Sanya Kantarovsky, made in 2021 and the first third of 2022.
Responding directly to the Soviet era modernist architecture of Kunst im Heim, Karl-Marx-Allee 45, Kantarovsky alters the space with a symmetrical arrangement of walls that evoke both religious architecture and anatomical symmetry. This intervention sets the stage for motifs of anatomy, biology and spirituality that recur throughout the paintings. The viewer is invited into a synesthesia in which the realms of experience, thought, form and materiality are violated, overlapped and disordered. The notion of self is fragmented in both object and image. Locating one’s center, the commonly proclaimed goal of Western contemporary wellness and self-help literature is demonstratively absent. There is no center.
28 April - 11 June 2022
Video by MONA
Produced by Monica Salazar
Filmed and edited by Frank Zerban
