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| black marker on newsprint "The Financial Times August 21, 2017 |
Is there a hidden meaning in the daily news from the financial and economic world? Since 2012, the artist Anke Becker regularly creates "economic words": She redacts words and phrases from Financial Times articles with a black felt-tip pen, leaving single words visible. What was hidden is brought to the surface – a world far from the movement of stock exchange listings and international money movements.
Monday, August 21, 2017
Monday, August 14, 2017
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Potluck at Manière Noire
Potluck at Manière Noire: An event with drinks, appetizers, and economic words
Dear friends, dear colleagues, dear art enthusiasts,
We gather on the 4 August at 7 pm to meet, exchange, and clink glasses. As some of you might have heard, Manière Noire was one of the awarded spaces from the Berlin Senate. This award is a reward, recognition and high esteem for the past activity. Seen in terms of future, it will facilitate further continuance of a place where ideas, artists and curious people meet.
We start at 7 pm: Majla Zeneli from Manière Noire will take care of the drinks. Anke Becker hangs new pieces from the series "economic words" The guests are kindly asked to contribute with some appetizer for the buffet.
The economics absurdly affects our decisions and lives at every moment. The news (online or printed) just affirms the ubiquitous oddities or logic streaming from the business world. The Financial Times (FT) with its so characteristic salmon taint, and a daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news, serves Anke Becker as a base for her riposte.
Anke’s interventions consist on taking away or blackening the surplus information. However, the initial text of the article is still legible. Economic news becomes "economic words". Under erasures (sous rature) Anke Becker alters business facts into stunning brief poetries, so the reality gets more bearable.
Anke Becker is an artist based in Berlin. There have been numerous undertakings between her and Manière Noire.
Friday, 4th of August / 7 pm
Maniére Noire
We gather on the 4 August at 7 pm to meet, exchange, and clink glasses. As some of you might have heard, Manière Noire was one of the awarded spaces from the Berlin Senate. This award is a reward, recognition and high esteem for the past activity. Seen in terms of future, it will facilitate further continuance of a place where ideas, artists and curious people meet.
We start at 7 pm: Majla Zeneli from Manière Noire will take care of the drinks. Anke Becker hangs new pieces from the series "economic words" The guests are kindly asked to contribute with some appetizer for the buffet.
The economics absurdly affects our decisions and lives at every moment. The news (online or printed) just affirms the ubiquitous oddities or logic streaming from the business world. The Financial Times (FT) with its so characteristic salmon taint, and a daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news, serves Anke Becker as a base for her riposte.
Anke’s interventions consist on taking away or blackening the surplus information. However, the initial text of the article is still legible. Economic news becomes "economic words". Under erasures (sous rature) Anke Becker alters business facts into stunning brief poetries, so the reality gets more bearable.
Anke Becker is an artist based in Berlin. There have been numerous undertakings between her and Manière Noire.
Friday, 4th of August / 7 pm
Maniére Noire
Waldenserstr. 7A
Friday, July 14, 2017
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