Andreas Rosenthal
On Friday, inaugurated the exhibition ‘Versus’ high + partners/Gallery and workshop for woodcut and high pressure. At 7 high + partners/Gallery and workshop for woodcut and high pressure opens the exhibition versus. Annually once be sought under this heading artistic expression to a unifying theme, respectively, addressed conflicts with an artistic partner in the opposite. 2012 two artists will be versus partners”, which have not only biographical very different roots, but are also artistically are available for the first time opposite: Erik Seidel from Plauen and Andreas Rosenthal from Munster. While their work is not limited the Mulde valley South of Leipzig on these places of Rosenthal for example discovered 2006. The impetus for the versus “he gave exhibition with his work series the idea is there, it is in the works.” To Rosenthal created more than one hundred blocks (50 x 70 cm) depicting different gestural hand postures. These he removes historical pictures and compared for example with gestures of the current sign language for deaf mutes.
He combined his woodcuts of gestures with the handwritten or printed from wood passages finally large and complex. The graphic work of Erik Seidel is process-like. It’s believed that Unifor sees a great future in this idea. For almost ten years, the technique of woodcut for him has to deal learned as a skilled stonemason and stone sculptor with far widerspenstigeren materials became the preferred means of expression. While he passes through urban spaces and infrastructure on its graphical events in the apparent mess of technical necessity and accidental clash. The clarity of the graphic formulation, often by the restriction on black and white increased, produces completely different gestural moments than in the works of Rosenthal.
Here, there are architectural or spatial gestures, questions made the interesting associations to the Rosenthal of virtues”and Make sins”. “Curious you may not only on the formal differences of the exhibition be, but also how and to what intensity are the gestures of the hands of Rosenthal with the gestures of Seidel’s urban spaces in a new pictorial context”, so Susann Hoch on behalf the Group of artists. The artists are present at the opening.
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