Vom 03 June, 2009 bis 03 July, 2009
Theo Boettger_Laura Bruce_Davide Cantoni_Motoko Dobashi_Iris van Dongen_Katja Eckert_Eckehard Fuchs_Murray Gaylard_Bertram Hasenauer_Claude Heath_Robert Helms_Matthias Männer_Peggy Meinfelder_Serge Onnen_Catalina Pabon_Sebastian Pöllmann_Sophia Schama_Olivia Seiling_Martin Skauen_Andreas Tellefsen
Theo Boettger_Laura Bruce_Davide Cantoni_Motoko Dobashi_Iris van Dongen_Katja Eckert_Eckehard Fuchs_Murray Gaylard_Bertram Hasenauer_Claude Heath_Robert Helms_Matthias Männer_Peggy Meinfelder_Serge Onnen_Catalina Pabon_Sebastian Pöllmann_Sophia Schama_Olivia Seiling_Martin Skauen_Andreas Tellefsen
With the show Facebook galerie baer presents a gruop show which was conceived by the drawing lab and presents the theme of Portraiture in drawing. The exhibition presents a broad spectrum of drawing, from watercolours on paper to animated drawing videos, everything that this diverse medium can represent. In all areas of Art History, the genre of Portraiture has played an imminent, central role. The portrait can be a reflection of the self, the self as another, the expression of society as a whole and simultaniously plays with the personal and very subjective view of the Artist. Facebook presents 22 International Artist’s diverse creative positions and will be exhibited in different venues in Berlin, München and Dresden amongst other locations to be certified.
Theo Boettger`s (born 1975) pictures take comics, Pop Art, action films and computer games. His colourful drawings depict individuals or groups rather as robotlike or technical creatures then as human people. With reference to comicbooks these characters are sometimes accompanied by texts, but not tamed hereby though. Society’s struggle with violence, madness and aggression is evident in Boettger’s portraits.
After having been occupied for a long time with painting, sculpture and video, Laura Bruce’s, (born 1959) has found her medium in expressive drawings. Using the bare essentials of colour - black and white – she makes large format graphite drawings on paper. Sublime and uncanny landscapes with plant thickets – offering only scattered hints of a human civilisation - depict a portrait of American middle-class suburbia.
Davide Cantoni (born 1965) creates burned drawings by applying sunlight with a magnifying glass on tissue paper using samples taken from newspapers and press imagery. Multifigured war scenes and action photos taken from Worldwide areas of conflict, ask for the beholder’s attention, which has become difficult being exposed to a daily flood of information. In Facebook there will be single portraits featuring both known and unknown people from the Worlds of Fashion and popular culture, presenting a sceptical view behind the mass media, false reality of Glamour.
The bi-polar cultural background of Motoko Dobashis (born 1976) is shown in the graphic, painterly work of the young Japanese Artist, who studied at the Munich School of Art under the Artist Markus Oehlen. Dobashis’ artistic language takes influence from Japanese Woodcuts and old German glazed painting, for example from Dürer in combination with modern, graphic elements from Comic and Street Art. Dobashis’ central theme is architecture and the animate and inanimate nature, but from time to time the artist creates self-portraits like the actual image with beard and like this, she expresses personal topics, wishes and dreams.
Katja Eckert’s (born 1976) creatures are from fantasy worlds and simulate vicarously and seemingly effortless our real life with all the social problems and feelings from being alone, fears, sexuality and the confrontation with the daily struggle of existence. Since her „Plugfigures“ from the series „Soziales“ which she created some years ago,, the artist deals with human characteristics and the society based, human behaviour. She also follows this topic in her recent works, in the digital drawings and in her conventional drawings on paper and canvas,.
In his drawings Eckehard Fuchs (born 1975) depicts human portraits, or rather human figures entangled within a net of associations. The figures are always fitted into the format and mostly look out of the painting, thereby interacting with the viewer. Having said that, they seem hopelessly lost in self-contemplation. The artist often employs the hideous and shocking in order to narrate morale and emotions. Only rarely does Eckehard Fuchs employ descriptive attributes in order to portray relationships and situations of his own observation. It is the drastic and subtle gestures and the representation of partly exaggerated interactions between the protagonists which transport the thoughts and episodes.
Murray Gaylard (born 1974) from Southamerica brings together happening, street art, graffiti and drawing. The recent collage works are based on a strict segmentation of the paper: a drawing and painting part correspondents with a monotone dark area, reminding on Magritte, which inserts and hides aphorism of sentences. Through these pawn like modules interpretation gaps are revealed, which relate to the artists interest in sociology and social sciences, and which turn firmly towards the viewers perception.
Bertram Hasenauer (born 1970) questions with his figurative crayon drawings, clear notions of mimesis and abstraction. For his portraits of men and women he uses a figurative style to leave the figuration at the same time: seeming to be a portrait in the first moment, reveals to be the idea, the illusion of a portrayed figure, like one which could cross our dreams for a moment and then to leave it again in vaguely shaped memory spheres.
Claude Heath (born 1964) deals with perception processes and gauges in his blindfold drawings of touchable objects tactility, space experience and drawing processes. His particular interest is the three-dimensional line which moves in the real and the virtual space. Heath´s abstract drawings relate to genuin human aspects like emotions, randomness, experience, rationality and further parameters.
Robert Helms (born 1978) draws with a classical, severe line, which reminds of engravings and early illustrations, romantical worlds as a possible projection of the author or another person of the fairy-tale-world. In other drawings which show lonesome girls and women theese can be located in todays time.
Bas Louter´s (born 1972) large-size charcoaldrawings on paper portrait forgotten and unknown people, which are anonymous and anti-individual at the same time, but also of historical meaning. Louter combines from various inspirational picture sources and creates complex sometimes phantasy-like characters, which seem to be real and unreal at the same time. In the exhibition space three dimensional geometrical black and white wall drawings support Louters illusionistic imageworlds on paper.