Tag: 2010
Tom Sanford //
Ruud van Empel
Ann Edholm
Ditte Ejlerskov
ZUSPIEL / JASPER SEBASTIAN STÜRUP
ZUSPIEL / JASPER SEBASTIAN STÜRUP
As we begin using our new exhibition rooms, Christoph Tannert, CEO and artistic director in the fine art department, has developed a new format that suggests itself for a series of exhibitions, intending to make a direct visual connection between exhibition contributions by guests of the International Studio Programme at the Künstlerhaus and current positions which are not part of the artist-community here. Artists from Berlin and Germany, in the main, are not fellowship-holders at the Künstlerhaus. In a series entitled “ZUSPIEL” (“pass”), exchange relations will be visualised with artists, curators and nominators, who take up and carry on ideas and themes initiated by guest artists of the Künstlerhaus.
The current ZUSPIEL artist is Jasper Sebastian Stürup. His works – primarily drawings, but also photos, videos and objects – adopt material from the gigantic, omnipresent store of pop culture, film, music and fashion magazines. His fine-lined drawing offer viewers figures and remnants of figures shimmering between presence and absence, between motif and abstraction. His inevitably faceless beings often appear to be surrounded and captured by the ornamental patterns of lines that Stürup weaves around them like a spider creating his web.
Jasper Sebastian Stürup, was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark, in 1969. He lives and works in New York.
Thierry Feuz
Christoffer Egelund Gallery is proud to present the solo exhibition “Beyond the Hurricane” by Austrian artist Thierry Feuz (b. 1968). The exhibition is the artist’s second solo show in the gallery and he displays new paintings, drawings and sculptures that present a different view to traditional depictions of flowers and nature. The exhibition “Beyond the Hurricane” opens up to a world of biomorph flowers floating weightless in indefinite monochrome spaces – to pure abstract striped multi-colored canvases, where everything recognizable is dissolved.
With poetic sensibility and a refined hand Thierry Feuz’ creates his paintings using a mix technique of acrylic and lacquer, which highlights and intensifies the colors and gives vibrant life to his semi abstract natural world. In technique as well as in motif Thierry Feuz’ works contain an immediate sensory and decorative appeal which, however, is contrasted by the underlying disruptive and catastrophic undertones as the title “Beyond the Hurricane’ indicates. Across the gleaming canvases swirling psychedelic flowers dance in spaces without gravity, as where they wrenched off of the earth by a tornado’s centrifugal dynamic force. In some works the flowers seem transformed into biomorph formations in the cosmos of celestial space or into microorganisms at the ocean floor. But among the works, the viewer will also find more “grounded” depictions of flowers, in the form of painterly close-ups of picturesque petals’ abstract and decorative patterns, but also pure abstract paintings consisting of multicolor stripes as cross sections of Thierry Feuz’ compressed color palette.
Nature and flowers also appear in Feuz’ sculptures, wherein dead and withered pieces of nature are revived with psychedelic spray colors and reincarnated as colorful ‘memento mori’ in Feuz’ universe between nature-figuration and abstraction.
Thierry Feuz was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1968. He graduated from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and Universität der Künste in Berlin in 1998 and later from the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva in 2003. Today he lives and works in Berlin and Geneva and he has numerous international solo and group exhibitions behind him, and several coming up. In 2010 alone, he presents four solo exhibitions in Austria, Schwitzerland, Denmark and in the United States, while also participating in group shows in Switzerland, Holland and in Canada. This year he is also represented at the following art fairs: “Viennafair”, Vienna, ”Art Dubai”, Dubai, “Art Karlsruhe”, Feldkirch and at “Palmbeach Contemporary”, Boca Raton. In addition he is represented in several major private and corporate international collections such as; Art Singapore Foundation, Singapore, Credit Suisse, Zurich, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Switzerland , Musée de la Communication, Bern, Saks Fifth Avenue Collection, New York and Fond Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Geneva.
Copenhagen Graffiti (Walls) //
Bernhard Fuchs // Autos
“On bicycle tours I would come across cars just standing there in the countryside. I guess my first reaction was to look out for the owners. Most of the time, I would see no one and thus was left alone with the situation, developing a relationship to those vehicles that I hadn’t expected. From then on I started to regard these abandoned cars in the scenery as if they were actors on a stage and started to collect their wit and tragedy.”
The Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to present “Autos”, a solo exhibition of photographs by Bernhard Fuchs. The series “Autos” is a collection of images of cars parked in parking lots and on roadsides. Their stillness haunts, their solitude mystifies. In the absence of human life, the cars in Fuchs’ series take on their own pulse, their function moves beyond expected utility. Here, in a moment of the “happened upon,” travel freezes in contemplation.
Born in 1971 in Haslach an der Mühl in Upper Austria, Bernhard Fuchs studied with Bernd Becher at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and with Timm Rautert at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig; he currently lives and works in Dusseldorf. Since 1991, his work has been exhibited in Germany and abroad: Museum Ludwig , Cologne Germany; Museum Folkwang, Essen Germany; Goethe Institute Washington D.C. and Paris. Several of his photographic series including “Autos” have been published internationally in monographs of his work.
