Image: Manuel Pfeiffer, New England Morning, 2021. Mixed media on canvas, 31 x 41 cm. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Image: Manuel Nildottie, 2021. Mixed Media, 44.5x32 framed.
Gallery 2
Manuel Pfeiffer & Eva Van Gorsel.
Friday 5 November - Sunday 21 November 2021
congruent /ΛkΙΕΙ‘rΚΙnt/
adjective
1. in agreement or harmony.
2. GEOMETRY
(of figures) identical in form; coinciding exactly when superimposed.
With climate change and pandemics hitting globally, we feel that our lives have changed and that harmony has been disrupted. Congruence - Incongruence. Many of us have been striving for balance more consciously - a new balance in our friendships, in our workplace and in how we interact with our environment.
Manuel and Eva creatively investigate the concept of Congruence and Incongruence. They explore balance - tension, harmony - disharmony, symmetry and asymmetry. They also introduce the mathematical concept of Congruence (or lack thereof) in their work.
Humans tend to perceive congruent images as aesthetic. We like symmetry, repetition of shapes and forms. But often a little tension is the spice that is needed to keep us interested.
Manuel and Eva have created two sets of works that play off each other. Both sets of images are made up of diptychs.
Congruent
Evaβ s body of work is in itself congruent. She has an interest in how landscapes are shaped by colour and geometry and explores moods created by warm and cold colours, directional light, changes of light with time, gradients of colours painted on the sky or reflected in the water. All her images are based on photography.
Incongruent
Manuelβs body of works, on the one hand, is based on incongruence: every diptych, in itself partly congruent, is different in technique and used materials, reflecting the great variety of possibilities the world provides; on the other hand all works are of the same size and mounted the same way, in the mathematical sense of the word βcongruentβ.