Bernd Lohaus
dal 19/1/2009 al 7/3/2009
Segnalato da
19/1/2009
Bernd Lohaus
Galerie Bernard Bouche, Paris
Artist's work is characterized by the association of massive and sobre sculptural shapes, mostly of old beams of wood that carry words or bribes of sentences. They come from dockyards or from Antwerp's harbour. Lohaus suppresses the unnecessary, saws, cuts off, reduces, but he also adds, by integrating the past to his work.
The gallery is pleased to present, starting from the 22 of January,
recent works by Bernd Lohaus. Born in Dusseldorf in 1940, he enters
the Academy of Dusseldorf in 1960, then settles down in Belgium in
1966. There, in parallel with his work, he opens the gallery White
Wide Space with Annie de Decker.
Bernd Lohaus's work is characterized
by the association of massive and sobre sculptural shapes, mostly of
old beams of wood that carry words or bribes of sentences. They come
from dockyards or from Antwerp's harbour. They have floated for a
long time on the water of the Rhine. Each one of the beams is
important.
The artist doesn't intervene before he sure is if he
should cut them or not, and how, and keeps them piled sometimes many
years in his studio. He stabilizes them in sculptures. Bernd Lohaus
suppresses the unnecessary, saws, cuts off, reduces. But he also
adds, by integrating the past to his work. A process that could be
appreciated in a recent exhibition at the S.M.A.K., in Gand, and that
distinguishes him from the artists of minimal art, Arte Povera, or of
Beuys, that was his professor.
Galerie Bernard Bouche
123, rue Vieille du Temple, Paris
Open from tuesday to saturday, from 2 to 7 p.m., and by appointment.