Julia GrunerUniversal Azo Fizz – Eine Dekonstruktion/ A Deconstruction

Bombastic Views! Anyone who wants to paint needs paint – it could be as simple as that. Julia Gruner (*1984, Lüdenscheid), who graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2015 as a master student of Katharina Grosse, relies in her “Domestic Paintings” on a different palette: on Bilou Duschgel Sweet Galaxy, Dontodent Mundspülung Junior Lerneffekt, Dresdner Essenz Badekonzentrat Ruhe Pur, got2b Haargel Kleber wasserfest, Rewe Beste Wahl Creme mit Aceto Balsamico di Modena IPG, Rewe Bio Steirisches Kürbiskernöl and treaclemoon Cremedusche one ginger morning. This produces texture, is smeared, squeezed one layer over another and reacts chemically. The artist spreads it all out on a scanner on a sheet of cling film, so that a few folds are sometimes part of the picture. The effects lie somewhere between bombastic views, interstellar spaces and childlike-looking daubing. Put differently, the ephemeral images held fast in the scan awaken our curiosity about the industrially manufactured products we handle every day, products that are moreover perfectly tailored to every situation in life and about whose ingredients and manufacturing process we in fact know very little. The “Kienbaum Artists’ Books” are the ideal place for such experiments, and so the publication consists of four elements: a poster folded to form the cover, which reproduces the scan of one work in full, and three booklets – in the first Julia Gruner shows details of several works, in the second she lists the product information in full, and in a third booklet the colourings used in the foodstuffs and their properties are recorded in detail.