RAUMX – Seasons Greetings

RAUMX  independent artist led project-space

With the best wishes for the New Year!

Shows will continue from April 2015.

Martina Geccelli

Christine Reifenberger at RAUMX November 2014

View into exhibition Front : untitled; 2014 tempera on paper 100 x80 x 78 cm wall: Untitled; 2014 tempera on paper 104 x 52 x 34 cm

Artist Talk

opening

Christine Reifenberger, Morph – Preview Thursday 30.10.2014

The painting of Christine Reifenberger evolves the experience of nature into amorphous currents and figures. In Reifenberger’s work, real phenomena morph into poetic organisms. Her figures become streams of consciousness bordering on the surreal and approaching the grotesque. Alongside her two-dimensional work on paper and canvas, the painter uses paper to twist surface colours in space, changing their condition and that of their medium. Reifenberger arches, folds and twists her paper, fusing it with phosphor, neon, metal and dust pigments in different consistencies and combinations. The subject of the painting becomes gesture, light, space and material. The work deals with conditions, correspondences and the loss of control, investigating continuities, links, changes and exchanges among color, matter, and form. Reifenberger‘s work touches the world of baroque, the world of arabesques and the world of music, among others. The artist glides from one world to another, creating a cosmos in which all elements confront one another until they cool into a solid state of form and colour. In the tension between affinities and oppositions of material, and in her painting process — which works at once through development and intervention — Reifenberger’s pieces explore dynamics of closure and openness, movement and stillness, lightness and weight.

Gletscher, 2013
Tempera on paper.
80 x 80 x 80 cm

Fleibut, 2014
Tempera on paper
120 x 72 x 62 cm

Silberpapier, 2014
Tempera on paper
113 x 126 cm

Christine Reifenberger Morph – forthcoming show at RAUMX

Ulrich Wellmann Watercolours Installation shots

Ulrich Wellmann decided to hang his watercolours in particular groupings which are in correspondence with the individual situation, light and athmosphere of RAUMX. RAUMX is made of a square space of approx. 25 sqm. The right wall of RAUMX is double height with a rooflight. The adjacent room 2 is studio space. Room 2 has a hanging within a differnt context engaging with another artist workspace. See underneath

wall 1 hanging

wall 2 – installation

grouping wall 2

Room 2 : Ulrich Wellmann 2 watercolours
installation with Martina Geccelli photograph

left: 2012 (red-yellow) 57,1 x 50,5 cm right: 2012 (green-grey red) 64,0 x 53,7 cm

Wellmann room 2
left wall

2013 ( yellow black) 34,4 x 26,3 cm

Ulrich Wellmann in conversation with Clem Crosby 20.09.2014

Ulrich Wellmann Watercolours – Preview Friday 12 of September 2014

Ulrich Wellmann, Watercolours – forthcoming show at RAUMX

RAUMX is pleased to annouce the forthcoming show with Ulrich Wellmann, September 2014

12th – 20th of September 2014

Private view Friday 12th. of September 2014

Ulrich Wellmann will show his recent watercolours.

2014 Watercolour 71,8 x 57,5 cm

The Cologne based painter Ulrich Wellmann affected, shaped and extended the view on temporary colour-painting. He occupies himself with elementary questions on painting and offers solutions in image and paint. In this process, the substrate of the painting starts to play a more important role.

In his new watercolour works Wellmann allows the paper to be liberated from its usual, two-dimensional function. Like this, it easily catches anyone’s attention through individual form and striking material characteristics. These qualities are created by folding, scratching, cutting, twisting and tearing the paper. This is a process usually done before painting, which plays with the appeal of the reasonable. The features of touching the paper will always stay openly visible. They affect the process of a work by sending impulses that guide the artist in his way of painting. Ulrich Wellmann responds to these sensual notes with his colouring in a careful and sensible way, allowing an image to develop. These watercolours do not only refer to themselves. They make their wall, their light, their space and their social surrounding become an emotional quality. Now they belong here.

From 1975 – 80 Ulrich Wellmann (1952) studied painting with Prof. Stefan Wewerka at the University for Art and Design in Cologne. He supported Günter Umberg’s “Raum für Malerei” Cologne (27 shows with international painters of colour-painting ) Wellmann’s work has been shown in Basel, New York City, San Francisco, London, Madrid, Paris, Frankfurt and Cologne. His work is part of several museums and private collections.

www.ulrichwellmann.de