Group show
Artists: Stephan Balkenhol, Leiko Ikemura, Maximilian Rödel, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Thu Van Tran
We are pleased to announce the group exhibition “Poetics of Nature”. This themed exhibition focuses on various work cycles by Stephan Balkenhol, Leiko Ikemura, Maximilian Rödel, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Thu-Van Tran. Through diverse media and art historical traditions, the selected works converge in their sensory approach to nature. They illuminate nature’s transformative potential to reflect its inherent cyclicality as fundamental principle in our experienced world, re- and deconstructing nature’s character facets as an archetypal place of longing and refuge. Yet in an efficiency- and speed-driven, technoid society, nature is also increasingly exposed to interference and processes of change through the Anthropocene and the view of nature as an exploitable resource; a complex ambivalence that is also subtly made visible in the exhibition.
Leiko Ikemura's works live from their inherent transcendence. They freeze a moment of becoming or of transition. That which is indeterminate and ambiguous, constantly changing, condensing and dissolving, essential, organic and scenic elements seem to merge in amorphous configurations. Created since 2020, the glass sculptures seem to bundle light within themselves. They develop autonomous luminescent forces, which give the hybrid figure a unique contour and shape as well as a weightlessness. The sculpture “violet mountain” can be seen as the head of a resting figure where plant-like structures grow upwards at the ear. Yet viewed from the front, the sculpture’s cratered irregularity can also be read as a mountain range. As an expression of a process of condensation and simultaneous dissolution, the organic hybrid creatures seem to refer to natural cyclicality as a basic principle of our perceptible universe.
Sources: Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Press release
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