Caroline Kryzecki

KSZ

„Für jede Zeichnung gibt es einen Code.“

The drawings of Caroline Kryzecki (b. Wickede/Ruhr, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) resemble calligraphic exercises with a ruler and ballpoint pen. The fine lines in the classic ballpoint pen colors blue, black, red, and green fill her often large-format sheets with shimmering visual patterns. They visualize conceptual appropriations and variations of an aesthetic practice that initially developed out of a production error, the moiré effect. Kryzecki turns this originally digital malfunction into an analog production method. The structures drawn on paper are the result of her meticulous plans and intuitive drawing studies. More important than the effect, however, is the method of construction, which the artist documents, especially for the more complex grid structures, through a system of notation called codes that she developed herself. Thus the abstract networks always evoke social, psychological, and organic dimensions. Kryzecki also transforms her large-format drawings into monumental site­specific installations.

KSZ is the first comprehensive monograph on the artist’s ballpoint pen drawings. The starting point for the series of works, which now comprises over 240 drawings, was a six-month residency in Istanbul in 2012. Eva Meyer-Hermann wrote the essay. With a conversation between Oliver Zybok and the artist.