Agora Gallery
German Artists German Artists In New York Exhibition Gernot Kissel, Helmut Bischof and Katrin Alvarez NEW YORK, NY –Die Agora Galerie (530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY, 10001) präsentiert mit Freuden die Sammelausstellung vom 03. Juni bis zum 24. Juni. Die Kollektion umfasst eine fesselnde Auswahl neuer Arbeiten dreier innovativer und begabter Künstler aus Deutschland. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir möchten Sie daher recht herzlich zum Eröffnungsempfang am Donnerstag, den 05. Juni 2008, von 18.00 Uhr bis 20.00 Uhr in unserer Galerie einladen. Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie bitte hier: http://www.agora-gallery.com/ExhibitionAnnouncement/6_3_2008.aspx Ich wäre Ihnen dankbar, wenn Sie die Ankündigung der Sammelausstellung auf Ihrer Webseite, Infotafel oder sonstigen Informationsseiten publizieren könnten. Bildmaterial ist auf Anfrage natürlich verfügbar. Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Joyce Asper PR Coordinator Agora Gallery 530 West 25th Street Chelsea, NY 10001 PR@Agora-Gallery.com Ausstellungsankündigung, Agora Gallery is proud to present German Artists Helmut Bischof in Delineation of Form, Gernot Kissel in Reflective Reality and Katrin Alvarez in Solace Among the Ruins. Exhibition Dates: June 3, 2008 – June 24, 2008 Reception: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 6:00pm - 8:00pm Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St , Chelsea , New York Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm Event URL’s: http://www.agora-gallery. com/ExhibitionAnnouncement/6_3_2008.aspx Helmut Bischof: http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Helmut_Bischof.aspx Painting with wax on paper, Helmut Bischof designs works that are rich in color. In the wake of World War Two, Bischof’s hometown of Wesel , Germany, was the type of dreary that made imagination and a spirit of survival necessities. Oppressed by bleak grays and browns, Bischof yearned for colors in both a physical reality and a metaphorical sense and therefore turned to painting. When most put on masks to hide their suffering, Bischof chose to live life to the fullest and paint brightly and powerfully. The result is a body of artwork that is vibrant not just for its colors but for its depth of shapes. Long, thick black spirals swoop through the paintings. Staccato lines at varying angles crash into a cacophony of color. Individualized boxes within the framework of a rectangular piece of paper emphasize form yet are couched by a velvety, amorphous background. Wildly conceptual, the images evoke feeling yet allow the viewer to interpret their meanings Gernot Kissel: http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Gernot_Kissel.aspx Gernot Kissel's stylized figurative works capture the feminine mystique with deftness and precision. His compositions center on the female gaze, encapsulating a fierceness of character not seen since Kees van Dongen's bewitching "Woman in a Black Hat." Kissel's still lifes and landscapes are strong and bold expressionist works executed with vibrant color and stark line. "His female figures have a direct and powerful sensuality and force the observer to admire them," in all their intensity. Passionate and audacious, these women look out from within the frames of the compositions with unapologetic and electrifying stares, daring and mystifying the viewer. Though he is deserving of comparison to the great German Expressionists of the early 20th century, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, and Alexey von Jawlensky, his heroines have an unparallel and uncompromising contemporaneity. Gernot Kissel, born 1939 in Worms on the Rhine, Germany , was an Engineer and Architect. A self taught painter, he started painting at 18 and has been painting ever since. His works have been exhibited across Europe and can be found in museums, galleries and private collections across Europe . Katrin Alvarez: http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Katrin_Alvarez.aspx German artist Katrin Alvarez’s mixed media works are both troubling and engaging, as they combine Salvador Dali’s surreal imagery and the jarring ruptures of Hannah Höch’s Dada collages. Most of Alvarez’s pieces incorporate two- and three- dimensional materials, creating a tension between surface and relief, representation and abstraction. This tension makes her artworks recognizable to a point, yet impossible to interpret completely. This incongruity in Katrin Alvarez’s materials extends to the thematic contents of her work. She uses a surrealist’s vocabulary, dealing in the myths and archetypes of dreams and psychoanalysis. Yet amidst the images of modern society’s melancholy and dark psychic underbelly, Katrin Alvarez incorporates deeply personal narratives. She treats her private issues through her art, all the while appealing to culture-wide problems. Not only do her images depict her inner demons, the disjointed ways she juxtaposes these personal problems with cultural crises suggests that the two are fundamentally related. Representations of her small inner universe always seem to reflect the dynamics of the greater whole. Helmut Bischof: gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Helmut_Bischof.aspx Painting with wax on paper, HELMUT BISCHOF designs works that are rich in color. In the wake of World War Two, Bischof's hometown of Wesel, Germany, was the type of dreary that made imagination and a spirit of survival necessities. Oppressed by bleak grays and browns, Bischof yearned for colors in both a physical reality and a metaphorical sense and therefore turned to painting. When most put on masks to hide their suffering, Bischof chose to live life to the fullest and paint brightly and powerfully. The result is a body of artwork that is vibrant not just for its colors but for its depth of shapes. Long, thick black spirals swoop through the paintings. Staccato lines at varying angles crash into a cacophony of color. Individualized boxes within the framework of a rectangular piece of paper emphasize form yet are couched by a velvety, amorphous background. Widly conceptual, the images evoke feeling yet allow the viewer to interpret their meanings. Gernot Kissel: gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Gernot_Kissel.aspx GARNOT KISSEL'S stylized figurative works capture the feminine mystique with deftness and precision. His compositions center on the female gaze, encapsulating a fierceness of character not seen since Kees van Dongen's bewitching "Woman in a Black Hat." Kissel's still lifes and landscapes are strong and bold expressionist works executed with vibrant color and stark line. "His female figures have a direct and powerful esnsuality and force the observer to admire them," in all their intensity. Passionate and audacious, these women look out from within the frames of the compositions with unapologetic and electifying stares, daring and mystifying the viewer. Though he is deserving of comparison to the Great German Expressionists of the early 20th century, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, and Alexey von Jawlensky, his heroines have an unparallel and uncompromising contemporaneity. Gernot Kissel, born in Worms on the Rhine, Germany, was an Engineer and Architect. A self taught painter, he started painting at 18 and has been painting ever since. His works have been exhibited across Europe and can be found in museums, galleries and private collections across Europe. Katrin Alvarez: gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Katrin_Alvarez.aspx German artist KATRIN ALVAREZ'S mixed media works are both troubling and engaging, as they combine Salvador Dali's surreal imagery and the jarring ruptures of Hannah Hoech's Dada collages. Most of Alvarez's pieces incorporate two- and three-dimensional materials, creating a tension between surface and relief, representation and abstraction. This tension makes her artworks recognizable to a point, yet impossible to interpret completely. This incongruity in Katrin Alvarez's materials extends to the thematic contents of her work. She uses a surrealist's vocabulary, dealing in the myths and archetypes of dreams and psychoanalysis. Yet amidst the images of modern society's melancholy and dark psychic underbelly. Katrin Alvarez incorporates deeply personal narratives. She treats her private issues through her art, all the while appealing to culture-wide problems. Not only do her images depict her inner demons. The disjointed ways she juxtaposes these personal problems with cultural crises suggests that the two are fundamentally related. Representations of her small inner universe always seem to reflect the dynamics of the greater whole. ========================================== |
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