Johannes Wald
16 Mar - 05 May 2012
JOHANNES WALD
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16 March - 5 May, 2012
Konrad Fischer Galerie Düsseldorf is pleased to announce the opening of Johannes Wald’s solo exhibition. In his most recent works Wald (born 1980) explores the relationship between form, language and meaning.
Five bars, each emanating from a cone shape and cast out of bronze build the work "Gegenwart, Rückblick, Sehnsucht, Aufbruch und Neuland in Bronze gegossen" (presence, retrospect, desire, departure, virgin soil, cast in bronze). The bars and cone shapes are casts from channels and cones through which the liquid metal is usually poured into the foundry mould. While the cones and channels themselves suggest many possible forms which could be realized, the title of the work absurdly ascribes a meaning to each channel.
Completely based on language are two text pieces titled ‚Ekphrasis’ which challenge the imagination of the beholder. As suggested by the title the works are detailed descriptions of sculptures which express in different ways emotional content and liveliness of forms. According to the artist, this kind of expression is only possible through language, clearly marking one of the constant characteristics in Wald’s ouevre. Doubting the potential of sculpture to express certain feelings or complex ideas in any appropriate way, Wald does not consider his works – language-based or three-dimensional – as sculptures but rather as replacements or approximations revealing the artist’s desire for an ideal and emotional art. Consequently, his sculptural works series is titled “Verlorene Form (giving shape to a dim feeling)“ (lost-wax casting, giving shape to a dim feeling).
At the same time we show a selection of paintings by Jerry Zeniuk.
fig.
16 March - 5 May, 2012
Konrad Fischer Galerie Düsseldorf is pleased to announce the opening of Johannes Wald’s solo exhibition. In his most recent works Wald (born 1980) explores the relationship between form, language and meaning.
Five bars, each emanating from a cone shape and cast out of bronze build the work "Gegenwart, Rückblick, Sehnsucht, Aufbruch und Neuland in Bronze gegossen" (presence, retrospect, desire, departure, virgin soil, cast in bronze). The bars and cone shapes are casts from channels and cones through which the liquid metal is usually poured into the foundry mould. While the cones and channels themselves suggest many possible forms which could be realized, the title of the work absurdly ascribes a meaning to each channel.
Completely based on language are two text pieces titled ‚Ekphrasis’ which challenge the imagination of the beholder. As suggested by the title the works are detailed descriptions of sculptures which express in different ways emotional content and liveliness of forms. According to the artist, this kind of expression is only possible through language, clearly marking one of the constant characteristics in Wald’s ouevre. Doubting the potential of sculpture to express certain feelings or complex ideas in any appropriate way, Wald does not consider his works – language-based or three-dimensional – as sculptures but rather as replacements or approximations revealing the artist’s desire for an ideal and emotional art. Consequently, his sculptural works series is titled “Verlorene Form (giving shape to a dim feeling)“ (lost-wax casting, giving shape to a dim feeling).
At the same time we show a selection of paintings by Jerry Zeniuk.