STOCK 'n' WOLF

"comic! live!"

Performance

What happens when an artist does not see herself as an individual, does not see herself in the singular unless she can be seen in relation to others? At best this can be called modesty. Communication and cooperation are important to Tinka Stock, because they allow her to participate in the true sense of the word. For her debutante exhibition she asked other artists she knew to send her designs for tattoos, which she then executed on models formed of Fimo (“invited,” 2005). Some of the designs she transferred onto these figures are roughly sketched, others reminiscent of paintings or sculptures. The result is not only a group of “little guys” about 35 cm tall, but also a collection of affectionately crafted portraits of friends as a double form of self-characterization. A wide spectrum of human self-understanding and hypothetical existences comes to light not only in the motifs of the tattoos, but also in the posture of the individual figures and the settings in which they are placed.

Tinka Stock will invite her friends to join her in her work at the Kunstvereinsheim. Clad in self-made costumes, she will treat us to short comic-like scenes – lonely and non-conformist “little guys.”

Tinka Stock, born in Essen in 1976, studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe with Professor Stephan Balkenhol in his master class. Tinka Stock lives and works in Karlsruhe.

Curator: Bernhard Balkenhol

STOCK 'n' WOLF, "comic! live!", Performance, Kasseler Kunstvereinsheim, 2007, Fotos: Stefan Daub

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