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    FOG Design+Art 2024

    January 18-21, 2024

    Jessica Silverman presents a solo booth by Claudia Wieser at FOG Design+Art 2024. On view from January 18 to 21, the booth was conceived as a total environment, featuring polished stainless steel mirrors, turned wood sculptures, ceramic tile furniture, a woven tapestry, drawings and wallpaper. Titled “Echoes of Life,” the installation flirts with functionality while being highly formal with a big-picture perspective on art history. In dialogue with the visual rhythms of Sonia Delaunay and the mysticism of Hilma af Klint, Wieser’s work spans debates in architecture, design, and fashion, making the artist a fitting choice for the 11th edition of San Francisco’s premier art fair.

    Based in Berlin and trained as a blacksmith before she studied art, Wieser’s proficiency in a range of materials from copper and gold leaf to wood and clay informs the broad-ranging tactility of her work, particularly her coupling of cool and warm, hard and soft materials. In a new tapestry, the artist uses a range of metallic threads and colors to create a complex environment of depths and surfaces.
    In a mirrored and tiled wall work, the ethereal, airy, reflective stainless steel of the top half of the work contrasts with the grounded evocation of land and sea below. Meanwhile, in a black, white and turquoise chaise lounge, for example, an ultra-glossy glaze contrasts with the invitation to recline.
    Carved wooden sculptures playfully balance atop ceramic tile furniture. Like oversized game pieces, they beg to be arranged and moved around. Their geometric forms recall domestic objects such as vases and jugs, or design elements like doorknobs.
    On the walls, spellbinding colored pencil drawings on handmade paper evoke the spiritual nature of geometries. Meticulously applied with moon leaf—a silver-toned gold leaf—geometric principles are rendered almost cosmic. In "Echoes of Life," energetic lines and arcs span various materials, metallics, and colors, enveloping the viewer within Wieser’s visionary mise en scène.

    Claudia Wieser (b. 1973, Freilassing, Germany) has an MA in Painting and Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at The Drawing Center, NY; the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; and Smart Museum, Chicago. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju; Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, LA; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design, Herford, Germany. Wieser’s work is collected by prominent institutions, including the Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany; Deutsche Bundesbank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt; Helaba Art Collection, Germany; DekaBank Art Collection, Germany; and Zabludowicz Collection, London. In July 2021, Wieser unveiled her first outdoor public installation at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York commissioned by Public Art Fund. In 2023, she presented work in collaboration with historic Yves Saint Laurent couture, designing a set within the Museé Yves Saint Laurent, Paris. Wieser lives and works in Berlin. She is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf.