Shannon Bool, D-Frankfurt a.M. (*1972)
In her drawings, collages and architectural interventions, Shannon Bool combines, much like a musician, different representation systems drawn from the history of art. She addresses issues that are not only repeatedly debated in art but also in architecture, in the development of new materials and in the progress of digital technology. In many of her works, the focus is on the interplay between space, perspective, perception and reality. She refers to discourses of philosophers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
For her wall piece Liquid Pizzeria (2004), she took wallpaper with a mural-like, ornamental pattern and first commissioned an architect to build a visual disturbance into the wallpaper pattern on the computer. She then integrated this disturbance in the wall piece by cutting out small elements of the same wallpaper and pasting them in a collage-like way on the papered wall. The starting point of this work also included the many never-realised sketches of the Futurists with which they intended to depict motion.
Schrägraum is a platform set up by Shannon Bool in 2005 which replicates the wooden platforms on the outside premises of the T-Online building in Frankfurt a.M. It is covered with a photographic reproduction of a laminate floor, the perspective of which is distorted, thus supporting the perception of three-dimensionality. Because Bool translates the references into her own, unique language, the construction always remains evident. Situated between analytical reflection and emotional fascination, her works demonstrate the option of image spaces that are yet unknown. Bool searches for subtle ways out of the traditional, figurative systems of representation in art so as to create new possibilities of defining our environment.
Shannon Bool: liquid pizzeria 2004, wallpaper Installation view, schnitt raum, Köln
Curriculum vitae
lives and works in Frankfurt a.M. and Berlin
Shannon Bool: use their illusion: van eyck vs. petrus christus, 2005, wall drawing in pencil and goache, l aminate sculpture dimensions variable
Shannon Bool: six or seven wolves (cut version), 2005 photogramm, 161 x 112 cm
Shannon Bool: Elektra, 2005 ink and watercolour on paper, 30 x 60 cm
exhibitions, festivals (selection)
solo exhibitions
"Wet Buildings", mit Edwin Schaeffer, Fahrradhalle Offenbach, Offenbach
group exhibitions
"Heute", Hessisches Ministerium für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Wiesbaden
publications (selection)
Christoph Schütte: Die Cowboys sind friedlich. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mai 2002
awards and grants
Ernst and Young Prize, Städelschule Frankfurt Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe Stipendium