YUDI NOOR

This venue & Hales Gallery are the first art exhibitions that I've visited where a member of the team or security don't rush up to you to check your credentials and motives for visiting. Unlike DegreeArt.com on Vyner Street, a busybody did not rush to get my autograph, startled at seeing... a bearded Muslim in visiting. I was buzzed in and allowed to get on with it. I made sure my snow covered footwear made extra squishy noises in a silly tactic designed to allow the artists know I wasn't sneaking around. All in all it was a thoroughly enjoyable twenty minutes.Nettie Horn is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Yudi Noor, featuring a new body of sculptural works in the form of an installation as well as a new series of collages.

 

Through the use of diverse sourced materials and objects, Yudi Noor creates arrangements in a minimalist form of language exploiting notions of symbolism issued from cultural, religious, social and political fields. Noor’s work can be seen as a reaction to the themes and tendencies of our society, exploring questions of spirituality, belief, myths and their contexts within individual and collective notions of life practice.  
 

Born in Indonesia, Noor's origins in a culture which advocates religious pluralism and the idea of "unity among diversity" is a main characteristic which influences his practice. “Between the Bars” presents a new series of assemblage and collage, relating the history of Islam through visual story telling. Materials and elements from diverse origins and eras translate these re-imagined stories; sacred wood, stone, formed metals, and neon, are organized in compositions which reveal themselves through orders of a colourful and abstract nature. Here, Noor reflects on the origins and foundations of cultures as possible interpretations to the orders of complexities in contemporary thought.

 Generated by a spontaneous and semi-autonomous approach to a daily ritual, Noor’s pieces are inhabited by a range of elements which have followed their own journey according to their histories and context. As Noor states “in a process of space and time, of proportion and direction, materials are brought together”. Determined by conditions of given origins and qualities, each object composing these sculptures and installations contributes to the way each work develops.

Noor’s collages reflect on memory and collective experience, presenting elements collected in places he has visited, such as embroidery, ornamental glass, ink-jet prints, and tape. These collages are manifest to the fragmentary nature of today’s daily situation, geometric shapes symbolizing elements of the fundamental human condition.  

Yudi Noor was born in 1971 in Java, Indonesia. He lives and works in Berlin. 
Exhibitions include, “Mixed Opera”, Brigit Ostermeier, Berlin (SOLO SHOW) (2010); “Inkonstruktion”, Art Biesenthal, Germany (2010); “We have time”, Kunstverein Arnsberg (SOLO SHOW) (2009); Galerie Brigit Ostermeier, Berlin (SOLO SHOW) (2009); Let's go home, S-Kai, Am Sandtorkai 50, Hamburg, 2009; EINZUEINS RÜGEN - Skulpturensommer, Rügen, Germany (2008).