Norbert Prangenberg
07 Sep - 03 Nov 2012
NORBERT PRANGENBERG
Arbeit 1980 – 2012
7 September - 3 November 2012
On the occasion of joining the galleries artist portfolio for 30 years Karsten Greve Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming comprehensive exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Norbert Prangenberg including works from the 1980s to his last works.
His early drawings and paintings are characterized by simple shapes. Circle, diamond, square, oval and triangle are connected through painting to compositions containing an equilibrium of tension. Pastel and watercolour emphasizes a materiality of the paintings and emerge in the strong duality between bright and dark colours. Only in recent years, he discovered the oil painting. Again, he uses the materiality through impasto, which in some works lap over the edge and thus become an object. The crust which is created through this pastose application of oil paint is irregular ruptured with tiny cuts and opens up the view on the canvas. What all paintings have in common is Prangenberg’s distinctive flow of paint-brush, leading the viewer’s eye over the so structured surface in order to follow the varied and unpredictable process of painting, “Painting is in the center of interest, free from any stylistic assignments.”
Since the 1980s, Norbert Prangenberg started working on sculptures. Already outstanding by its volume, the ceramic works recall the vessel as in the Mediterranean world in use since antiquity. Both, the intense treatment of the surface and the varied use of colour give its characteristic appearance, coupled with a mightiness and plasticity giving the distinctive visual weight. The tension between the rough surface with traces of processing and the shiny colored glaze is shown not only in the large amphorae or figures but particularly in the small majolica.
Norbert Prangenberg was born in 1949 in Rommerskirchen-Nettesheim. During his apprenticeship as a gold-and silversmith he produced his first woodcuts and drawings since 1965 resp. sculptures since 1979. Since the 80s he gained internationally renown through his participation in documenta 7 in Kassel. This was followed by numerous solo exhibitions of his paintings, sculptures, linocuts and drawings in museums and art spaces, including Bonn, Bochum, Bremen, Essen, Stuttgart, Munster, Krefeld and Karlsruhe, and recently in the Kunstverein Lippstadt and in the Art Museum Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg. His works are to be found in both important public and private collections. Since 1993 Norbert Prangenberg held a chair for ceramics and glass at the Kunstakademie Munich. Norbert Prangenberg passed away on June 29, 2012 at the age of 63 in Rommerskirchen.
Arbeit 1980 – 2012
7 September - 3 November 2012
On the occasion of joining the galleries artist portfolio for 30 years Karsten Greve Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming comprehensive exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Norbert Prangenberg including works from the 1980s to his last works.
His early drawings and paintings are characterized by simple shapes. Circle, diamond, square, oval and triangle are connected through painting to compositions containing an equilibrium of tension. Pastel and watercolour emphasizes a materiality of the paintings and emerge in the strong duality between bright and dark colours. Only in recent years, he discovered the oil painting. Again, he uses the materiality through impasto, which in some works lap over the edge and thus become an object. The crust which is created through this pastose application of oil paint is irregular ruptured with tiny cuts and opens up the view on the canvas. What all paintings have in common is Prangenberg’s distinctive flow of paint-brush, leading the viewer’s eye over the so structured surface in order to follow the varied and unpredictable process of painting, “Painting is in the center of interest, free from any stylistic assignments.”
Since the 1980s, Norbert Prangenberg started working on sculptures. Already outstanding by its volume, the ceramic works recall the vessel as in the Mediterranean world in use since antiquity. Both, the intense treatment of the surface and the varied use of colour give its characteristic appearance, coupled with a mightiness and plasticity giving the distinctive visual weight. The tension between the rough surface with traces of processing and the shiny colored glaze is shown not only in the large amphorae or figures but particularly in the small majolica.
Norbert Prangenberg was born in 1949 in Rommerskirchen-Nettesheim. During his apprenticeship as a gold-and silversmith he produced his first woodcuts and drawings since 1965 resp. sculptures since 1979. Since the 80s he gained internationally renown through his participation in documenta 7 in Kassel. This was followed by numerous solo exhibitions of his paintings, sculptures, linocuts and drawings in museums and art spaces, including Bonn, Bochum, Bremen, Essen, Stuttgart, Munster, Krefeld and Karlsruhe, and recently in the Kunstverein Lippstadt and in the Art Museum Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg. His works are to be found in both important public and private collections. Since 1993 Norbert Prangenberg held a chair for ceramics and glass at the Kunstakademie Munich. Norbert Prangenberg passed away on June 29, 2012 at the age of 63 in Rommerskirchen.