AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos will soon present the exhibition Botanical Body Bliss of Hadassah Emmerich, her first solo show at the gallery. For the exhibition Emmerich created new paintings, vinyl collages and a mural design. She will mount an immersive show in which the visitor steps into a colorful erotic jungle. As in her recent exhibitions at Bonnefanten and Kunsthal Kade, an ornamental fusion world is presented through the work, in which body parts and plant motifs merge into new species. Botanical Body Bliss is running from January 28 through March 5, 2023.
On Saturday January 28th, 2023 the gallery will be welcoming guests to the official opening of the exhibition. During the opening, Mirjam Westen (Former Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum Arnhem) will tell us more about the works of Hadassah Emmerich, who had one of her first solo exhibitions at Museum Arnhem in 2003.
A Short Background
The fusion of flowers, plants and body parts; the amalgamation of forms and colors takes center stage in Emmerich’s work. Other important themes covered by the artist are exoticism, eroticism and cultural exchange: how we project these onto tropical fruits, plants and bodies, and how this gaze is intertwined with desire and commodification. Emmerich’s interest in these topics is a result of her mixed heritage of Dutch, Indonesian, Chinese and German, as well as a sense of being different while growing up in a small town in the Dutch province of Limburg. Now, Emmerich has been living in Brussels for seven years and everything falls into place. The multilayered and international character of the city is an ongoing source of fascination and visual inspiration for Emmerich, which resonates in her new works.
Hadassah Emmerich (1974, Heerlen, NL) obtained her Masters degree of Fine Arts in the famous Goldsmiths College in Londen. Her work is shown internationally in musea and art fairs. She is represented in the collections of Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; Federal Government, Brussels; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Kunstmuseum Den Haag; Schunck, Heerlen; Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Anrhem; Rabobank Nederland, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Muzee Ostend, amongst others.
