Ebbe Stub Wittrup - Herbert Nauderer
dal 6/7/2011 al 12/8/2011
Segnalato da
6/7/2011
Ebbe Stub Wittrup - Herbert Nauderer
Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich
A box of slides from hiking trips in Norway and Switzerland in the late fifties that the artist once found forms the point of departure for the conceptual work by Ebbe Stub Wittrup. But Nauderer investigates his own emotional state by going beyond the classical visual language and through this he discovers a new, unknown, confusing and touching world of imagery.
Ebbe Stub WITTRUP
"Presumed Reality"
Nusser & Baumgart is pleased to present with "Presumed Reality" the first solo show in Germany by Danish artist
Ebbe Stub Wittrup (*1973 in Aarhus).
A box of slides from hiking trips in Norway and Switzerland in the late fifties that the artist once found forms the point of departure for the conceptual work by Ebbe Stub Wittrup. The color photographs have faded over time, and the patina points towards a distant past. Yet the artist uses these documents without a sense of nostalgia. He digitally blocks out details or lends them greater sharpness. He plays with colors, forms, light, and shadow regardless of what is depicted. In this way, images of an ascent to a summit or people taking a break are transformed into abstract paintings: the outlines of people in the foreground dissolve, and the alpine world in the background becomes razor sharp. One can only guess what is real - Presumed Realities.
This exhibition is accompanied by the comprehensive catalogue "Ebbe Stub Wittrup. Presumed Reality"
published by HatjeCantz (July 2011)
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Spot°light: Herbert NAUDERER
"NOTHING PERSONAL"
Herbert Nauderer’s drawings do not serve as sketches or as pre-studies to subsequent paintings, they rather work as final products, to a “direct transcription of the spirit” (Hegel). But Nauderer investigates his own emotional state by going beyond the classical visual language and through this he discovers a new, unknown, confusing and touching world of imagery.
At first glance the concept of Herbert Nauderer’s "Rembrandt-Ballett" appears as reduced and formal: 800 folios in the same format (21 x 15 cm), all graphite on paper, all uniformly framed and hung at evenly distributed intervals. However, the individual drawings are fully surprising, alternating between violence and humour, quotations, emotional releases, eroticism and free associations. The viewer is seductively lured into another world.
Stylistically the entire spectrum of the graphical instrument is utilized in the cycle: from pictograph-like, austere drawings, to expressive, severely emotional line. Seen as a whole, the sensitive drawings appear monumental, developing their own rhythm and musical dynamic.
Opening on July 7, 7-9 pm
Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary
Residenzstr. 10/3 - Munich
opening hours: Tue - Fri 12 - 6 pm, Sat 12 - 4 pm and by appointment