Reverberate6.9.–26.10.2019Stampa Gallery, Basel (CH)

The artistic medium of Sabine Hertig (*1982) is the analogue collage for which she uses contemporary information media and, above all, the classic print media as image sources. For the past 10 years the artist has been studying her seemingly inexhaustible stock of images, both intensively and meticulously, in search of new contexts and exciting dialogues, paradoxically knowing that this artistic appropriation and alienation means preservation at the same time: “I’m driven to enter this flood of images and respond to it by my fascination with images themselves. It’s also an attempt to give value back to historic, archived images by integrating them in a new whole and thus drawing them back into being contemporary."

In her third solo exhibition at STAMPA, Sabine Hertig is continuing this visually stunning dialogue in the form of new, even more painterly-looking collages in colour as well as an extensive number of black-and-white compositions. The latter includes the monumental work Landscape Nr. 16 which follows her Landscapes Nr. 13-15 from the work series of the same name and – in the sense of the exhibition title "reverberate" – echoes back on them. That is true both figuratively and spatially, as her ruin landscapes are contemporaneously presented at Kunsthaus Baselland as part of the group exhibition “Zeitgeschichten“.