Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Kicking Sawdust 19th February, Berlin 09

Invitation to Kicking Sawdust Berlin 19th February 09

BACCARASMART – KICKINGSAWDUST
OPENING: 19 February 2009, 7 p.m., the artist will attend
INTRODUCTION: Prof. Dr. Jo Groebel, Berlin
EXHIBITIONDATES: 20 February – 18April 2009
The British artist Baccara Smart is a reflective dreamer who conducts a dialog between the worlds of private biography
and collective memory.Through her paintings we are immersed in a strange world of masks, dresses, secrets, magic,
feats, transformations, gestures, mimic forms of expression, pathos, laughing and crying. There are images, some
drawn, some painted, with overstated, collaged compositions, exaggerated as in a comic book, and forms of action,
circumscribed in dance or acting, which reveal to us a private view of the world of the circus, the trained trans-
formations, the enigmatic, the second reality of being. We feel a close affinity with the works of Frank Stella, Sigmar
Polke and Martin Kippenberger. In her painting, Baccara Smart uses the creative power of collective memory to confront
us in multi-layered and combinatory collages with the primal fears, desires and joys of human existence.