Bella Knemeyer

Experiments in landscape architecture II 
Experiments in landscape architecture III

Tell us about the works Art Gazette has acquired from you

The works are a series of monotone paper landscapes that take their cues from built and natural contexts. Mixing and plastering paper as groundwork, they stage surface tension and probe thresholds of going too far, close, deep etc.

Can you explain your working process?

Lately, I’ve been exploring paper sources at the end of their material cycle, ‘obsolete’ car and printer manuals, a tax return and phonebooks. I mulch and roll out these substrates using landscape architecture techniques of raking, levelling and contouring.

The Japanese House Exhibition, The Barbican

Which exhibition has left a lasting impact on you?

The Japanese House at the Barbican, for the ways it seamlessly crossed and held together so many practices and disciplines.

Tell us about an artist you admire from the Art Gazette inventory

Unathi Mkonto, for the way his work is architectural, sensual and pressing.

Name a few artists whose work you admire

Oh, so many!

Isamu Noguchi, Michael Rakowitz, Bronwyn Katz, Carol Bove, Cooking Sections, Bonolo Kavula, Daniel Buren, Mawande Ka Zenzile, Jared Ginsburg, Cameron Platter, Mitchell Gilbert Messina, John Baldessari.

And a few architects should be included here too, Lina Bo Bardi, Ilze Wolff, Rozana Montiel, Tadao Ando.

Why do you choose to work with Art Gazette?

It‘s an interesting space to explore possibilities. I especially enjoy seeing my work in regular dialogue with others through the various collections Art Gazette curates.

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