HUA International
Hua International is pleased to announce The Texture of My Memory, an exhibition of Emmy-award winning filmmaker and artist Dennis Scholl, in the upstairs showroom of the Berlin Gallery
The exhibition, organized by gallery artist Rafael Domenech, introduces the artist’s hybridized visual arts practice of collection and creation, remapping the porous boundary between art-making and authorship, and inviting a conversation on individual and collective memory, the relationship between value and context, and what it means to create and keep.
Featuring nearly 20 works created out of acquired cultural ephemera that are arranged into a dodecagon shape, a serialized landscape of image, time and space, the show embarks upon a typological voyage through the traditions of the readymade, assemblage, and Pop. Having spent 45 years collecting, Scholl’s material list is an archive of historical headlines, iconographies, and personal references, including rare materials like the original tabloids broadcasting Marilyn Monroe’s death, 1971 royalty statements addressed to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and a series of Civil War-era love letters sent to a Union captain from his soon-to-be bride, along with items from Scholl’s personal archive—vintage Hermès scarves, his very own Emmy awards, and the baseball cards he began collecting at ten years old.
Also featured in one of the works are photos of United States President John F. Kennedy, along with a dozen coins which state “Ićh Bin Éin Berliner” to commemorate his speech given on June 26, 1963.
The exhibition also involves a series of his geometric drawings, which veer toward abstract expressionism, using thousands of repetitive markings inscribed with micron pens. In a repetitive and meditative rendering of a 12-sided geometric pattern in pencil, the result is the dodecagon’s vortexed shape referenced throughout the exhibition.
