BETTINA KRIEG

Abysse

Thomas Andrae, Moritz Kaufmann

Bettina Krieg’s complex and obsessively detailed pen-and-ink drawings reveal fragments of human existence, countless layers of ideas, images and feelings. This slim but elegant exhibition catalog includes multiple fold-outs and mylar inserts to accurately reproduce the young, Berlin-based artist’s extraordinary “narrative clouds,” as curator Christian Ganzenberg describes them in one of several outstanding texts. He lauds the artist’s “exuberant richness of detail” and the “precise, almost Old Master-like alignment and the unusual saturation of the depths.” Scrap-metal yards, destroyed cars, insects, birds, waterfalls, exploding machines, fish scales, tentacles, cells, cables: Krieg herself can barely describe her inspirations for these works which are at once abstract and figurative.

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MAIDER LÓPEZ

Polder Cup

Spanish artist Maider López is becoming an international star with her unusual projects involving droves of community volunteers in captivating public interventions. Polder Cup combines the Dutch love of soccer with the characteristic feature of the Dutch landscape, the polder – a reclaimed marsh protected from flooding by dikes. López painted soccer fields right across the polders, ditches and dikes, forcing players to negotiate endless new rules and tactics to keep the matches going. These unique games brought together everyone from soccer players to art lovers, all of whom were at the mercy of the unprecedented setting. This extensively illustrated book captures the joyous, improvisatory spirit of the tournament in brilliant color photographs, and ends with two-page presentations of seven previous interventions by López.

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