Silke Otto-Knapp: Bühnenbild (sitzen, stehen)

Silke Otto-Knapp Bühnenbild (sitzen, stehen), 2021 Silkscreen Print on Yamada Hanga handmade paper 25.6in. x 32.3 in. (65 cm. x 82 cm.) Signed Edition of 30 Following Silke Otto-Knapp’s Spring 2020 exhibition, In the waiting room, the artist has created an edition for the benefit of the Renaissance Society: Bühnenbild (sitzen, stehen), 2021. In the waiting room featured a group of six large-scale watercolor paintings by the Los Angeles-based German artist, situated in an arrangement of free-standing structures to form a kind of multidimensional stage set within the gallery. In some of Otto-Knapp’s works, silhouetted bodies stretch, ambulate, and contort, in the midst of a performance or preparing for one. Others introduce more scenic elements, reminiscent of the painted backdrops used on proscenium stages to ground actions within a particular setting. Rendered in grayscale with a single black pigment, each carries a certain enigmatic quality, the seeming simplicity of their reduced com