Art Cologne Halle 11.1 · Stand C311

18:30

Art Cologne – Planning of the exhibition booth

In the year of the gallery’s 45th anniversary, which is celebrated with the poetically beautiful exhibition Visions of Beauty in Mainz and Venice, the Mainz gallerist, publisher and art historian Dr. Dorothea van der Koelen will present aesthetic masterpieces by established top artists of the international avant-garde at Art Cologne 2024.

Lore Bert

This year, the diligent paper artist is prominently represented at the booth of Galerie Dr. Dorothea van der Koelen with a successful blend of classic and new pictorial objects. The Mainz-based artist still spends hours in her studio every day to realize all the ideas she comes up with for new works of art in her leisure time. Her most recent creations are characterized by the rediscovery of the color turquoise on the one hand and – after a phase of Art Deco-like structures – the renaissance of basic geometric forms and the star shape on the other.

Characteristic of Lore Bert’s artistic work for more than four decades is her work with Far Eastern papers from Japan, Nepal, Korea and China, which often take on a spatial dimension. The collages, pictorial objects, banners and sculptures that have been created since the early 1980s, followed shortly afterwards by installations and even entire paper spaces and environments, are evidence of the artist’s interest in material and form, but also in space and environment. Paper is her preferred material.

Lore Bert occupies a unique position in the international art scene. In the more than 325 exhibitions she has mounted worldwide, she has shown works that enter into a multifaceted dialog with paper as a material and enable insights to be gained from sensory perception. There is no depiction in her works, but rather the beauty inherent in the manifestation of human thought. A beauty that Lore Bert seeks out and transports into her artistic universe. These are concepts and forms borrowed, for example, from mathematics, geometry, architecture, literature and the world of philosophy.

Further exhibited artists

The thoughts and work of the Swiss Concrete artist Gottfried Honegger were permeated by a deep belief in the power of art, in the impact of art and its consequences. In the exhibition, the gallerist presents his large-format, historical work Tableau-relief P 832.

Daniel Buren, the French grand master of conceptual art, is contributing an impressive blue work from the Cadre décadré group of works to the gallery’s exhibition stand. With the unique, 8.7 cm wide white stripes which always run vertically, of course.

Dorothea van der Koelen is presenting a fragile, painterly ink drawing (105 x 71) by Raimund Girke from 1990, in which Girke manages to develop an incredible dynamic between darkness and light and create a complex depth. In doing so, he succeeds in making a delicately luminous white vibrate from the surface.

Mohammed Kazem, who had a highly acclaimed exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in the Deutschherrenhaus in Koblenz in 2023, is showing a typical Directions work as well as several geometric Sound of ... works.

Nam Tchun-Mo, the Korean from his country’s monochrome movement, presents a typical Beam picture in radiant yellow as well as a dynamic Spring work in rich red and another Spring in royal blue.

The light in Fabrizio Plessi’s large-format installation Gold (video installation with 2 TVs, 2024) flows like a waterfall of precious, gleaming gold. A silent caesura in the middle slightly changes the flow of the waterfall.

Turi Simeti, the Italian ZERO artist who died of Covid in 2021, shows a 2 x 2 meter masterpiece with red ovals as well as 8 ovali in yellow.

Günther Uecker, whose transformation of painterly actions into pictorial objects through the use of nail structures made a pioneering contribution to the development of art after 1945, is showing Dom, a site-specific embossed print, as well as works from the Graphein cycle.

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