Georgia Russell

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X93;Cutting out is a sort of freedom of expression. For me it’s drawing, but I draw with a scalpel.”0Georgia Russell works with surgical precision, the clinical scalpel turned into an artist’s tool. With delicate gestures, she cuts her sculptural paper works from scores, prints, newspapers, or photographs, sometimes even from entire books, transforming old materials into fantastic art objects. Galerie Karsten Greve is devoting a comprehensive solo exhibition to the artist, her first in Germany0 0Taking the collage as her point of departure, around the turn of the millennium Georgia Russell started to cut books apart. The idea for this was born during a stay in Paris, where used books, that collected dust on the shelves as if dead and unloved, she decided to breathe new life into them. For Georgia Russell, the “untreated” book is already like a sculptural object that reflects the countless hands that have held it, as well as the innumerable thoughts and ideas linked to it. She finds the thing that she processes – the books, the old prints or photographs – at flea markets or antiques shops. They are things that were once sorted out, put aside, and which refer to a personal anecdote, whose secrets are not revealed, but whose information makes a previous time all of a sudden graspable. Sometimes the artist leaves individual parts untouched, such as the spine or flyleaf, and thus turns her objects into things that bridge the past and the present, and with this transformation she lends then a new life and a new meaning. 0Exhibition: Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln, Germany (08.11.2013-11.01.2014)