Marc Peschke

All in one – gallerist, culture journalist and photographer

In Marc Peschke’s artistic practice he has been moving away from the classical stylistic devices of photography and photographic art. The series were conceived as a subjective, fragmentary diary, forming a poetic, ambigious entirety. The artistic approach is surrealistic, anti-documentary and anti-photographic.

http://www.marcpeschke.de/

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C-Print on aluminium under plexiglass, milled, edition per motive 15 + 2 exemplars, signed

format A3 – 290 €, format A2 – 490 €, format A1 – 990 €, format A0 – 1.990 €

“The Cubes – Liquidacion Total”, hexagonal diasecs, deal with the debris of communication in a consumer or post-consumer society. Employing a constructivist, modernist pictorial language, subjects are transformed into absurd, cubic product units.These ironic photo-objects engage the viewer in a visually minimalistic and thematically complex play.

Marc Peschke is an art historian and photograph, born 1970 in the Offenbach near Frankfurt. His work of recent years have become more and more detached from the classical styles and means of photographic art. Series like „After This Darkness There Is Another“, „The Dark Cubes“, „Among Animals & Plants“ or „The Cubes – Liquidacion Total“ shall be read as subjective, fragmentary, ambiguous, though deeply poetical diaries. The attitude is surrealistic, anti-photographic and anti-documentary. Peschke: „My art is about re-mystification and codification But then, these are wanderings through my life. I don’t stage or re-enact my images. I do not look for motives – they find me.“

His latest series „The Cubes – Liquidacion Total“ – hexagonally shaped diasecs – pick up graphic remains – the communication junk – of our society, and forms them into absurd, cube-like handy goods. The works of this series are much more “artistic wall objects” created from photographs than they are classical photographs in its own right. Formally minimalist-serial, they present a complex and ironic view into the transient nature of today’s consumer society.

Christof Lungwitz

BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL FURNITURE DESIGN AND FREE OBJECT ART

Christof Lungwitz is the son of a sculptor, and was an interior architect in his first life. He has taught model-making at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. The boundaries between functional furniture design and fine sculpture merge in his work – a fusion of artistry and craftsmanship. As a designer, Lungwitz creates a balancing act between fine and applied art. In addition to their original function, his containers develop their own life and stand for themselves in their aesthetic and sculptural quality. “Everyone can decide for themselves how to view my pieces – whether as purely functional, representative, or something further…” explains the versatile designer and artist. Geometric severity tempers flowing softness. The poetic titles of his pieces emerge intuitively in the work process. And so Lungwitz’s objects convey their puristic aura in the concentration on the essentials. Shape that fulfills its purpose. It is the result of a radical reduction and concentration of creative means.

http://lungwitz.info/

five containers for five rings on one hand

Peter Vogel

The essence of the transience of nature

…is the central theme of Peter Vogel’s work. The motif of decay is captured from oak and fir trees affected by deforestation, which Vogel uses as materials, rotating them in a classic cross-timbering technique. Fissures and bizarre forms are created by the drying process. Lime paste, acrylic paints, water lacquers and synthetic resins form unusual structures on the surface, evoking natural weathering processes. These sculptural idiosyncracies move within the tension between archaic primacy and morbid fragility. With his objects, Peter Vogel spans an arc between antiquity and modernity, vessel and sculpture.

http://www.petervogel-objekte.de

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Material: precious woods, e.g. oak and fir woods

Prices on request

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Ute Faber

COLORFUL SHOES. GLITTER AND WHIMSY

The Berlin-based artist, Ute Faber, describes herself and her work as “city nomads”. She collects inspiration and found objects from urban and natural landscapes, and brings them together to create new objects with new stories. She is especially interested in the diversity of nature and the spectrum of its forms. Her colorful environment inspires her to design. Ute Faber says: “My work features the incorporation of collected treasures found in everyday life. In it, the objects go through an artistic metamorphosis and, with a new appearance, exert a new significance in the paintings and objects. The world of emotional clashes, the thrill of coexistence in relationships – these themes are the red thread throughout [my] work.”Her work, therefore, could be called autobiographical. Her shoe sculptures for instance, display how the everyday can be appropriated in sculptural art . With these pieces, she intensively concerns herself with the psychological exploitation of shoes in the widest sense: symbols of eroticism, devices of meaning, fantasy objects or mythical beings? It is only at a second glance that it becomes apparent that these works encompass a painful and yet ironic confrontation with power, wealth, success and eroticism. But in these pieces, the artist does not forsake what she loves herself: bright colors, glitter and whimsy.

http://utefaber.de/

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Shoe sculptures in plexiglass boxes

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Guillermo Aguilar-Huerta

Geometric abstractions

„The elegance of mathematics is the foundation of the beauty of nature and the most beautiful way of looking at mathematics is geometry“ – says the mexican artist Guillermo Aguillar Huerta. He places his work into the discourse between fashion, industrial design and concrete forms. In his artwork, geometrical abstractions dominate with a variety of exotic color combinations which are derived from universal and traditional Mexican patterns. Geometry is to Guillermo an endless way to create unique shapes that describe different cultures. Furthermore, he ascribes a major importance to architecture and technological advancement to capture how all these combinations of factors influence our modern society. Guillermo’s compositions are clearly determined by the mixture of both, namely his own and universal pattern creations which are adapted to individual geometrical shapes. Hence, reflecting his viewpoint about life in all its diversity and dynamism.

https://www.kunstnet.de/gahuert