Julia Gruner: Universal Azo Fizz – Eine Dekonstruktion

Bombastic views

If you want to paint, you need colour, it could be as simple as that. Julia Gruner (*1984, Lüdenscheid), who graduated from the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2015 as a master student of Katharina Grosse, uses a different palette in her "Domestic Paintings", such as Bilou shower gel Sweet Galaxy, Dontodent mouthwash Junior Lerneffekt, Dresdner Essenz bath concentrate Ruhe Pur, got2b hair gel Kleber wasserfest, Rewe Beste Wahl Creme mit Aceto Balsamico di Modena IPG, Rewe Bio Steirisches Kürbiskernöl and treaclemoon Cremedusche one ginger morning. This creates structure, is blurred, squeezed on top of each other and reacts chemically with each other. The artist spreads it out on a scanner on cling film, so that there are also a few folds. The effects range between bombastic views, interstellar spaces and childish-looking drivel. In other words, the ephemeral images captured in the scan make us curious about the industrially manufactured products that we deal with every day, which are also perfectly tailored to every life situation and about whose ingredients and manufacturing process we basically know little. The Kienbaum Artists' Books are the ideal place for such experiments, so the publication consists of four elements: a poster folded into a cover that shows a complete scan of a work and three booklets: in the first, Julia Gruner shows details of several works, in the second she lists the product information in detail and in a third booklet the colours used in the food and their properties are recorded in detail.