Exhibition Dirk Salz
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DIRK SALZ. Resin.
24 October – 14 November, 2015
Dirk Salz. Resin.
Brush and canvas are not used in Dirk Salz’s paintings: with the aid of paint rollers and gravity he spreads resin on solid panels. The result are images that are a true viewing experience. They thematize the interplay of light, color and space and with that the possibilities and limits of our perception. By not showing anything connecting to the outside of the image they make the viewer focus on him-/herself. They give reason to contemplate and reflect on conditions and the potential of perception.
DIRK SALZ. Resin.
Exhibition Views Jürgen Paas
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Jürgen Paas. BlinkyBlinky.
5 September – 17 October, 2015
BlinkyBlinky by Jürgen Paas
The recollection of modern icons occupies contemporary artists everywhere. With his new series BlinkyBlinky Jürgen Paas reflects on the work of legendary Blinky Palermo, who himself is hardly classifiable, and who always had winking references to the history of art in his work.
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Jürgen Paas. BlinkyBlinky.
5 September – 17 October, 2015
Opening Reception Friday, 4 September, 2015, 7 p.m.
Armin Hartenstein and Martin Schwenk
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20 June – 29 August, 2015
Artist’s Talk Friday, 28 August, 2015, 6-8 p.m.
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Double Exhibition with Armin Hartenstein and Martin Schwenk
The focus of our double exhibition is the dialogue between painting and sculpture: The pictures of Armin Hartenstein meet the plastic works of Martin Schwenk. The Dusseldorf based artists are comparable in their metaphorical view on landscape and nature. Their works are manifests of the unfinished, visualizing the process of its formation. With this exhibition the gallery enables entry to two very independent and outstanding positions in current art.
Armin Hartenstein / Martin Schwenk
20 June – 29 August, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, 19 June, 2015, 7 p.m.
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Exhibition Pictures Marcela Böhm
Marcela Böhm. City And People.
9 May to 13 June, 2015
Drawbacks Of The Skylines
German-Argentinian painter Marcela Böhm has become popular with her society and people scenes. With her individual style she characterized people of her direct surroundings in unconventional situations. Now she has turned her hand to the city theme, herself born in megacity Buenos Ayres. She does not show us panoramas in the literal sense of the word, since she blocks out the town’s landmarks, and chooses the backsides of the skylines as her subject, in contrast to the sky and the clouds. Hermetic, almost windowless facades with antennas and satelite dishes agglomerate sculpturally in front of the horizon. One will not believe that people live here, nothing individual like a balcony plant or a flower curtain would prove this.
But we also have the paintings with party scenes and people inside the urban interieur. Böhm is showing a patchwork of urban fragments, and the viewer can put together the pieces for his own image of city. In adaption of a verse by Jose Luis Borges one could say from the point of view of the artist: “The city in me is like a painting that I could not hold with brush strokes.“
Marcela Böhm. City And People.
9 May to 13 June, 2015
Opening Reception 8 May, 2015, 7p.m.
Marcela Böhm. City And People.
Obrist Gallery shows new works by Buenos Ayres born artist Marcela Böhm. Urban pictures have become an important subject for her, and we have the pleasure to present several of these pictures for the first time in our exhibition.
Marcela Böhm. City And People.
9 May – 13 June, 2015
Opening Reception Friday, 8 May, 2015, 7 p.m.
Detlef Orlopp – Photography.
At the same time to his upcoming exhibition at Museum Folkwang Obrist Gallery shows works by German photographer Detlef Orlopp (*1937). Orlopp was a student of Otto Steinert in Saarbruecken, and he moved with Steinert to Folkwangschule Essen in 1959. Nevertheless he is only partly a supporter of Steinert’s “Subjektive Fotografie”, because of its formative and experimental character. Orlopp has developed his very own style from nature, and dedicates his analogous black-and-white photography mainly to landscapes.
Detlef Orlopp. Photography.
14 March – 18 April, 2015
Opening Reception 13 March, 2015, 7 p.m.
Exhibition with Dieter Nuhr
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“Each form has its own means of expression. With language I can be ironic, but through the pictorial language the world seems more serious to me.”, says well-known humorist Dieter Nuhr about the two great creative poles in his life. Beyond the stage world he devotes his time to photography. His work does not represent a collection of travel impressions , instead he offers an insight that moves away from the everyday life perspective and into foreign countries and cultures. However, in doing so, he never illustrates the obvious beauty or a romanticized version of an exotic place. Nuhrs photography depicts the foreign, the detail, offering an exemplification of the „big picture“. Furthermore, Nuhr explores architectural structures between the antagonism of inside and outside spaces. These depictions are often characterized by a striking surface structure that is marked by an almost haptic-seeming impasto on the relief-like façade, which developed over the years and thus have become cultural seismographs and authentic witnesses of time.
Dieter Nuhr – Foreign Terrain. Photography.
31 January – 11 March, 2015
Opening Reception 30 January, 2015, 18.30h
Opening Reception Dieter Nuhr
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Here some impressions from our opening reception with Dieter Nuhr last Friday. (Photographs: Marc Schmidt)
Dieter Nuhr – Foreign Terrain. Photography.
31 January – 11 March, 2015