Sensual Sadness Amie Dicke

Peres Projects is pleased to present Sensual Sadness an exhibition by Amie Dicke at the gallery in Los Angeles. 

 

Like shameless eruptions, it begins to flow, greedily, incessantly, bodily fluids.

 

For her first solo exhibition in the US, Dutch artist Amie Dicke will be presenting a new body of work consisting of "cut-outs" and drawings. Dicke uses photos of movie stars and fashion models that appear in posters and magazines as her source material. In a slow and laborious process, she snips away at the bodies and faces of her subjects, parasitizeing on their beauty until there is a gossamer-thin web of contours. Most of the glamour from the original advertisements is changed into a stream of lines as a result of a very demanding and almost fluid technique where the paper is delicately cut-out. The silhouette of the ideal beauty remains as a fragile, disturbing or even a bit frightening figure. From eyes, mouths and noses flow threads of desire, craving and passion - all of which she does by applying layers of ink lines and drawings. 

 

Amie Dicke (b. 1978, lives/works in Rotterdam) earned her BFA in 2000 from HBO, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dicke’s work has recent ly been exhibited in various museum shows in Holland, including Museum Het Domein, Sittard (2003), Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (2003), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2002). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem and the City of Rotterdam Collection through the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.

 

Sensual Sadness will be on view at Peres Projects, Los Angeles (969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012) through December 30, 2003. Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, from 12:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M and by appointment.