Lena Schramm - Alphamoderne

Like an angular disco ball, the familiar pharmacy A reflects the colorful pills in the room. It promises healing and refers to the initial letter of the exhibition title, "Alphamoderne". In her most recent paintings, Lena Schramm deals with capitalism in a remarkable way. Ecstasy tablets, painted in impasto, point the way through the brand-historical cosmos of drug manufacturers. The basis for this ongoing group of works is the encyclopedia "ECSTASY", in which Schramm has arranged and painted over 500 ecstasy pills alphabetically by logo and symbol.

But alpha-modernism arranges the bitter dragee inventory in Basel in a new way. Thus, among other things, car brands vie with those of the electronic music industry. Money stands in austere clarity next to luxury labels, and old, archaic fantasies reveal themselves in front of eroticized medicine packaging. Among the symbols of status, hedonism, and sex, cute little troublemakers have also found their way into the assortment, like the lackey among the car manufacturers. Schramm also combines invented with real existing pills and always brings new symbols and logos in the tablet catalog, such as Albrecht Dürer, Dokumenta, Van Gogh's ear or Art / Basel. So Switzerland also gets its own rave pills.


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