July 15th - September 23rd, 2010
Peter Nencini Werkbox
A new edition of Peter Nencini's Handwerk is currently exhibted in Berlin at Direktorenhaus. These works are a prelude to a larger show in September. Nencini says: "I'm showing thirty boxes... The boxed variant pieces have grown, with markmaking of granular character. Both to magnify surface and to dispense with textual information in favour of something mute." […]>
May 28th - September 23rd, 2010
OLAF HAJEK - Flowerheads
Olaf Hajek’s illustrations reveal a peculiar luminosity. They are simple and clear and each drawing seems to hide an own private mystery which contributes a dose of fairytale to them.
Olaf Hajek was born in Rendsburg, northern Germany, in 1965. On the request of his parents he studied graphical design instead of arts. In the meanwhile he has become one of Germany’s best known illustrators and in the US, he is an artist of star-like potential. His distinctive style has emerged from the concentration on miniatures from India and American folk art. He paints with acrylic on paper, cardboard and wood. He does not only use a brush but has developed a very personal technique of wiping and scratching. As one of very few illustrators, he does not work on the computer but focuses exclusively on painting. “My style is my brandmark, my identity”, he says and stresses: “I love the haptical.” And this is exactly what makes his illustrations so pleasant: They stand out from the flood of digitally perfectionized images proper to our time.
Questioned about his favourite places to be he answers: “I must go to New York a few times every year … this is still a place that fills me with inspiration and gives me a lot of energy. And first of all, it’s the everyday culture in New York which is very inspiring, the colours, the interiours, the typography, the use of illustration! […] My favourite location in New York is the American Folkart Museum. After every visit I run to my working desk feverishly.”
Exhibition 28.05.2010 to 23.09.2010
May 28th - September 23rd, 2010
JAN LAMBERT KRUSE - Acupuncoons
United in their long tradition in crafts, glass and iron still could hardly oppose one another more. One exemplifies fragility and transparence; the other metallic strength. Swedish artist Jan Lambert Kruse playfully uses these oppositions to create his fantastic glass objects. Jan liquifies glass languidly leaking out of pipes and hanging off cage like structures. This current exhibition follows the “Milky Way” exhibition, he confesses that his new work the acupuncoons were inspired by an acupuncture session.
His recent cocoons are made using moulds with penetrative spikes or needles on the inside. He has adopted this approach rather than blowing the glass out of a iron thread net as in his previous work. He says "I have done this to create a different sort of pressure by blowing the glass against the needles. So in that way the iron does not puncture the glass instead it folds around it. The result is that the glass is resting inside the cage, hanging on the needles." The second set of pieces take on a different view of pressure, "I want to visualize something liquid getting out, or material under pressure."
Jan Lambert Kruse, born in Stockholm in 1962, studied metal craft at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Design and Craft in Stockholm. After his specialisation in glass and ceramics, he expanded his knowledge of the material at the Pilchuck Glass School in the US. Important shows include the International Exhibition of Glass in Japan, the Sassoulo Glass exhibition and several solo exhibitions in Sweden. [...]»
