Preview: ‘ABSTRACT’ @ BC Gallery
As we were recently telling you here, the opening of the group show ‘ABSTRACT’ at BC Gallery is set for Friday, September 26th, 6 pm (registration: rsvp@bcgallery.de).
The show features nine international artists – Ahmed Abdellatif, Clemens Behr, Hense, Moneyless, Momo, Nural Moser, Nelio, Severin Gruner, Stohead – and can be visited from September 26th to November 1st, 2014 (Wednesday – Saturday, 1 to 6 pm).
NELIO
Nelio / Detail
Born in 1982 in France, Nelio is a self-taught artist who started doing graffiti at the end of the 90s. His interest for graphic design, illustration, photography, architecture, and his various travels and collaborations with other artists, gradually influenced his art practice. Between abstract and figurative, Nelio has developed a contrasted universe, paradoxically minimalist and complex. With spraypaint and sometimes found objects such as wood, he reappropriates public space through murals and installations. Made of cleanly cut symbols, geometric shapes, and sometimes letters, landscapes or facial features, his artwork offers a playful vision of the world. His embedded spaces had become a mysterious and timeless language, communicating with you like a hieroglyphic or a piece of music.
CLEMENS BEHR
Clemens Behr / Detail
German artist Clemens Behr, born in 1985 in Koblenz, Germany, has been part of numerous group shows and several solo exhibitions since 2006. Up until 2012 his art has mainly been shown in Germany, Spain and Italy but has recently also made it across the big pond to the US and all the way to Australia. His work mainly consists of abstract, collage-like sculptures made of everyday commodities such as plywood, carton paper, garbage bins, old doors and windows. He either paints or leaves his materials raw and untreated and puts everything together to an overwhelmingly detailed construction full of lines and plains which are connected in tension, creating cubistic illusions which are set between dimensions.
MONEYLESS
Moneyless / Detail
Born in Milan in 1980, Moneyless’ art is characterized by an investigation on the rawest elements of life and focuses on a process of continuous evolution. He owes his graphical mark to the street, where his artist soul was born and where his roots were grounded in the ’90s graffiti scene. In the beginning he laid his main focus on lettering trying to “undress the letters from the alphabetical presence”. As his style evolved he then, with the same intentions, also tried to dissect shapes and the geometrical construction which holds everything together from everyday life. Moneyless’ aesthetic seems to quote a platonic vision where geometry is represented as the structure, the foundation upon which all nature is built.
NURAL MOSER
Nural Moser / Detail
Having studied Fine Art at Central St. Martins College for Art and Design, Nural Moser‘s work consists of installations, sculptural arrangements and painting. Her artworks are often based on the surrounding space and can be described as an aesthetic translation or abstract reconstruction of the environment they inhabit. If in her two- or three dimensional works, the characters of the particular surroundings are taken into consideration they will often reflect within the materials, colors and shapes of the works. Following the idea of “unisono” the materials used are often melting into the background and each other.
STOHEAD
Stohead / Detail
Berlin based artist Stohead, born in 1973 in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, started tagging his first graffiti pieces in 1989. In 1999 he joined the artist group “getting-up” which has created some of the biggest graffiti murals and influential exhibitions in the early stages of the new millennium. Since the beginning Stohead has always focused his work around the art of writing. As a calligrapher he plays with all kinds of different handwritten styles, distorts letters to an abstract shape or works with the principle of replication in writing the same word over and over again which creates an image as a whole that goes far beyond the obvious meaning of the written word.
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