SPACIOUS
The paintings and collages by Dutch artist and author Liesbeth Doornbosch focus on buildings, interiors and furniture and show an interpenetration of painting and architecture, from which she creates new abstract spatial constructions. Her compositions, some of which are large-format, present fragmented perspectives that create complex spaces in equally strict and expressive layers of color surfaces and lines. By incorporating architectural photographs, narrative moments always resonate: for the painter, the experience of spaces always evokes stories. Her depictions of spaces are therefore not fixed orders, but organically animated environments that conjure up a particular scenery. Doornbosch is interested in the character of a place and the atmosphere of a space in the field of tension between the inner and outer world. The artist lives and works in Arnhem.
The special ones for the respective location Installations by the artist duo Ariane Faller & Mateusz Budasz deliberately intervene in existing spatial structures and transform them into new experiential situations. Bold constructions made of wooden slats and boards, braced in the space like scaffolding and fixed with screw clamps, merge with colorful painting objects on packaging cardboard and pictorial bodies made of coarsely knitted wool, glass and photographs. The expansive ensembles are intended as temporary interventions in the seemingly familiar and orderly and deliberately contain moments of the provisional and experimental. Central to this is the subversive exploration of the boundaries between painting, drawing, sculpture and object. The radical installations cause the spaces to become unhinged, as it were; walk-in assemblages are created through which we move in amazement, sharpening our perception of the special structure of the space. The two artists live and work in Furtwangen.
ELEMENTARY
In her drawings and prints on large-format sheets of paper, Daniela Baumann creates elementary pictorial worlds with natural structures that unfold in the field of tension between figuration and abstraction. For her ink and charcoal drawings, some of which are monumental, she uses found wood, which she chars herself and processes into charcoal. Her multi-layered linoleum prints, which oscillate between massive compression of form and fragile dissolution of form, are organic and expressive at the same time. Natural materials such as wood, leaves or botanical sketches serve as inspiration for the transfer to the printing plate. Baumann usually presents her seemingly archaic works as free-hanging, expansive installations, giving the expressive pictorial creations a sculptural character. The drawings and prints tell of originality and transformation, energy and movement between surface, line and space, and also contain moments of destruction and growth, strength and fragility. The artist lives and works in Cologne.
I-Shu Chen shows in his series “Fake Landscape” minimalist drawings and paintings on paper, which have their origins in the marking of cities, landscapes and gardens on historical Chinese maps. Linear structures and diverse color nuances on differently designed backgrounds create spaces that are as strictly constructive as they are open in terms of design. The contrast between clear geometric order and free dynamic expression characterizes the equally powerful and sensitive visual language. Numerous layering and overpainting of colors, lines and surfaces characterize the complex pictorial events. The works seem to oscillate between reality and illusion, the natural and the artificial. By means of charcoal,
Using pastels, acrylics and collaged adhesive strips, Chen creates abstract reinterpretations of Far Eastern pictorial traditions and conceptual cultural spaces, opening up a dialog between past and present in contemporary drawing and painting. Originally from Taiwan, the artist lives and works in Düsseldorf.
SPACIOUS
The paintings and collages by Dutch artist and author Liesbeth Doornbosch focus on buildings, interiors and furniture and show an interpenetration of painting and architecture, from which she creates new abstract spatial constructions. Her compositions, some of which are large-format, present fragmented perspectives that create complex spaces in equally strict and expressive layers of color surfaces and lines. By incorporating architectural photographs, narrative moments always resonate: for the painter, the experience of spaces always evokes stories. Her depictions of spaces are therefore not fixed orders, but organically animated environments that conjure up a particular scenery. Doornbosch is interested in the character of a place and the atmosphere of a space in the field of tension between the inner and outer world. The artist lives and works in Arnhem.
The special ones for the respective location Installations by the artist duo Ariane Faller & Mateusz Budasz deliberately intervene in existing spatial structures and transform them into new experiential situations. Bold constructions made of wooden slats and boards, braced in the space like scaffolding and fixed with screw clamps, merge with colorful painting objects on packaging cardboard and pictorial bodies made of coarsely knitted wool, glass and photographs. The expansive ensembles are intended as temporary interventions in the seemingly familiar and orderly and deliberately contain moments of the provisional and experimental. Central to this is the subversive exploration of the boundaries between painting, drawing, sculpture and object. The radical installations cause the spaces to become unhinged, as it were; walk-in assemblages are created through which we move in amazement, sharpening our perception of the special structure of the space. The two artists live and work in Furtwangen.
SPACIOUS
The paintings and collages by Dutch artist and author Liesbeth Doornbosch focus on buildings, interiors and furniture and show an interpenetration of painting and architecture, from which she creates new abstract spatial constructions. Her compositions, some of which are large-format, present fragmented perspectives that create complex spaces in equally strict and expressive layers of color surfaces and lines. By incorporating architectural photographs, narrative moments always resonate: for the painter, the experience of spaces always evokes stories. Her depictions of spaces are therefore not fixed orders, but organically animated environments that conjure up a particular scenery. Doornbosch is interested in the character of a place and the atmosphere of a space in the field of tension between the inner and outer world. The artist lives and works in Arnhem.
The special ones for the respective location Installations by the artist duo Ariane Faller & Mateusz Budasz deliberately intervene in existing spatial structures and transform them into new experiential situations. Bold constructions made of wooden slats and boards, braced in the space like scaffolding and fixed with screw clamps, merge with colorful painting objects on packaging cardboard and pictorial bodies made of coarsely knitted wool, glass and photographs. The expansive ensembles are intended as temporary interventions in the seemingly familiar and orderly and deliberately contain moments of the provisional and experimental. Central to this is the subversive exploration of the boundaries between painting, drawing, sculpture and object. The radical installations cause the spaces to become unhinged, as it were; walk-in assemblages are created through which we move in amazement, sharpening our perception of the special structure of the space. The two artists live and work in Furtwangen.