Henning Bohl
dal 10/10/2008 al 14/11/2008
Segnalato da
10/10/2008
Henning Bohl
Johann Konig, Berlin
The ate rT oday. A series of works of large format mounted as an installation within the gallery space. The large images, irradiating opulence despite their emphasized simplicity, show cut-out paper drops or tears, as well as circular and sickle forms, which seem borrowed from mask-like Kabuki faces covered in make-up when pasted as abstract elements onto the white-primed canvases.
With a first solo exhibition, we are pleased to introduce the artist Henning Bohl
into our gallery program. Bohl will be showing a series of works of large format
mounted as an installation within the gallery space. Attached to the cornice above
the walls, the canvases seem like free- hanging curtains or tapestries, which
intermittently reveal the letters THE ATE R HE UTE in between. A parallel copy of
the cornice reads the corresponding fragments of the letters PSYCH OLOG Y T ODAY.
The large images, irradiating opulence despite their emphasized simplicity, show
cut-out paper drops or tears, as well as circular and sickle forms, which seem
borrowed from mask-like Kabuki faces covered in make-up when pasted as abstract
elements onto the white-primed canvases. Large surfaces of colored paper cover these
form arrays, sticking out from the edges like stubborn packing paper or rolling up
at the edges, thus creating a second image plane. As if looking through a curtain,
another space is opened in which the “image within the image” can be seen. The image
becomes a stage.
Despite the strict canon of forms and the constriction to found material (like the
limited color palette of decoration paper), the works give way to a great variety of
associations and histories. Furthermore, the gallery as an exhibition space serves
in this context “as a multilayered storytelling device” (Manfred Hermes). Michaela
Eichwald describes Bohl's way of working as “ein mehrschichtiges Sampler- und
Composertum” (“a multilayered way of sampling and composing”). In a kind of
“Workshop-weaving mill, Bohl weaves, entangles and bolts together intrinsic and
extrinsic into new.” For the artist, basically everything is potential material,
including his own work. Hence, motifs from earlier works might appear recycled in
the new ones. By utilizing already used fragments and the negative residues of
cut-out paper forms, Bohl develops an economics of image production, implying a
logic of its own in its process.
Henning Bohl (*1975, Oldenburg, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at
the Städelschule with Thomas Bayerle and Michael Krebber. Works from the artist have
been shown in individual exhibitions at the Studio Galerie in the Kunstverein
Braunschweig and the “Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen” in Düsseldorf, as
well as in various gallery exhibitions, the latest of which was “History of Garden
Theory” at Casey Kaplan in New York. The 14th of November 2008 the artist will be
opening a solo exhibition in the Oldenburger Kunstverein. 2009, the works of Henning
Bohl will be presented in the collection of the “Verein der Freunde der
Nationalgalerie” at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
Opening October 11th, 6 - 9 pm
Johann Konig
Dessauer Strasse 6-7 - Berlin
Free admission