ART
Gotthard Graubner |
Written 30 January |
Wednesday 26 May, 11:00Galerie Karsten Greve, 75003 [map]Gotthard Graubner
The Galerie Karsten Greve dedicates its upcoming exhibition to the German artist
Gotthard Graubner. The exhibition includes recent large-scale colour space bodies as well as works on paper. After his colour spaces of the 1950s and his colour cushions and colour bodies of the early 1960s, Gotthard Graubner developed his so-called colour space bodies at the beginning of the 1970s. The artist himself entitled his works this way; exceeding the two-dimensional bounds of conventional painting. Canvas or nylon is stretched like skin over foam material or synthetic cotton wool creating organic, body shaped forms. They unfold three-dimensional qualities and appear almost sculptural in their corporality.
Colour has always been the central subject of Gotthard Graubner's work; revealing its specific life and expression. Usually, Graubner focuses on just one 'range of colour', its manifold nuances interacting with one another - in tension as well as in balance and harmony. It is applied in numerous layers; it runs, blurs, covers, overlaps, disguises and orbits. It saturates the material and melts into it.
Alongside Gotthard Graubner's paintings his works on paper represent an equally expressive category since 1956. Again, colour remains the central subject. Gotthard Graubner was born in 1930 in Erlbach (Vogtland). Due to numerous solo and group exhibitions he has gained major national as well as international recognition. Gotthard Graubner lives and works in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Insel Hombroich.
