post-title Biene Feld | WERDEN (Becoming) | Galerie Born Berlin | 07.09.-27.10.2018

Biene Feld | WERDEN (Becoming) | Galerie Born Berlin | 07.09.-27.10.2018

Biene Feld | WERDEN (Becoming) | Galerie Born Berlin | 07.09.-27.10.2018

Biene Feld | WERDEN (Becoming) | Galerie Born Berlin | 07.09.-27.10.2018

until 27.10. | #2148ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin will be showing the exhibition WERDEN by the artist Biene Feld from 7th September 2018. The gallery participates at the fair POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2018 on 27th September 2018 with the artists Martin Assig, Biene Feld and Strawalde .

There is more to the word “werden” (becoming) than one would first expect from its two syllables. The Duden dictionary writes “Expresses something in the future”. And: “Indicates an assumed event“.Hegel described “werden” in his dialectical logic as the unity of Being and Nothing.

Being and nothing? In the new series of works from Biene Feld, in which she combines painting and drawing under the title “Werden”, there is initially plenty of “being”. The pictures are, they are memories of landscapes, without depicting concrete landscapes. They are, especially in the works on paper, which are created more spontaneously and experimentally than the paintings, composed of an intersection of fine lines, horizontal and vertical, which stretch a curved mesh over the paper base, flanked by splashed points and rivulets of paint which have run in the water. They are abstract, they lack any trace of people, objects, or forms. Nevertheless they appear like natural equivalents, the lines that the sea traces with its waves, hilltops and staggered mountain peaks, footpaths between fields, tracks in the snow, the course of a river, or a section of map in which altitude lines, streets, and hiking paths cross. The drawings exude a feeling of contemplation and reduction, as familiar from Asian works in ink. Every line is exactly right, not one too many or too few, every coloured spot sets an accent at precisely the right place in the spirit of a balanced harmony. Every drawing is the expression of a different perspective. Sometimes an aerial photograph, sometimes a wide angle, sometimes a close up. 

When she returns from a journey she always begins with the charcoal drawings, “so that it comes out”, relates Biene Feld. As if she retraces the paths she has walked which have inscribed themselves in her memory like a map. As if she gazes once again into the expanse, where mountain rises behind mountain, line behind surface behind line. The journeys are fundamental, not just for her work, but also in order to simply be, in order to gain a new perspective on things. When it is there, when the memory in the unconscious has become a form, she devotes herself to painting, sometimes in parallel. In contrast to the drawings, which don’t always have to become something, which can also be laid aside without a result, the oil paintings on canvas are always produced with the intention of becoming a picture. But Biene Feld never knows what the picture will be like in advance. Where it develops, which colours it will receive – one could also say with respect to the latest pictures with titles such as “Garden”, “March”, “Garden Path”, where it grows – is left up to the picture itself to an extent, and the path that it takes.

ART at Berlin – Courtesy of Galerie Born Berlin – BieneFeld
Biene Feld, becoming 1, 2018,
ink, acrylic, color pencil on paper, 114 x 85 cm

For the last three years Biene Feld has not just been travelling and walking through nature, she has also cultivated her own garden. “That makes itself felt”, she states. And in point of fact her recent pictures now appear to have been painted from out of the green, the plants and the earth. At any rate, they demonstrate a far more intimate and direct gaze compared to her earlier pictures, which tend to observe from a distance. Sometimes an aspect of a drawing also reappears in the painting, whether it is the relationship or the contrast between two colour tones, a direction, or a mood.

The oil paint stands spotted and pastose on the canvas, like layers of plaster on a wall, like a pullulating garden in which grass and flowers grow chaotically intertwined. Red shimmers through the light green and light pink of the flower-like spots in the foreground, as if the summer sun was shining through the grasses. In the small-format “Sommer 1” (Summer 1) the pink-red light, which can only be observed on summer evenings, has now completely taken over the background. The warm colours could be the remnants of her last journey to New Zealand, says Biene Feld, where she spent the summer, our winter. 

Every landscape has its colour, every country has its own light. On the Baltic Sea coast, where, – alongside Berlin – she lives some of the time and can gaze out at the garden, the sea, the rich green of the Darss Peninsular, and the white of the beach each day, her pictures have become much more abstract, she adds.  

But what about the Nothing, the other element in the Hegelian equation? Nothing is the very terse explanation of what the pictures want to be. They are not a specific landscape, a memory of a country. They are not the realisation of a sketch in paint, they are not a mere preparatory drawing, they are not representational, they are not (just) abstract. They don’t want to say too much, they don’t want to express a feeling, to convey a mood. They are composed of a piece all of these, bit they are always what the viewer makes of them. They have become something.

Leonie Pfennig

Vernissage: Thursday, 6th September, 6 pm – 9 pm

Exhibition period: Friday, 7th September – Saturday, 27th October 2018

POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2018: Thursday, 27th September – Sunday, 30th September 2018
Flughafen Tempelhof, Hangar 4, GALERIE BORN, Berlin – Stand C 06, Martin Assig, Biene Feld, Strawalde

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Image caption: werden 1, 2018, Tusche, Acryl, Farbstift auf Papier, 114 x 85 cm

Exhibition Biene Feld – Galerie Born Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

 

Further Exhibitions by Galerie Born Berlin:

 

GALERIE BORN DARSS: Uwe Kowski – Beton

Exhibition: 01.09 – 03.11.2018, Opening: Friday, 31st August, 6 pm

GALERIE BORN Darss, Südstraße 22, 18375 Born

+49 38 234 674 804
+49 172 88 55 692
Tue – Sun, 11 am 5 pm

 

PROJEKTRAUM HEIDDORF / GALERIE BORN: Gregory Cumins – Parkour

Exhibition: 29.07. – 21.10.2018

GALERIE BORN, Projektraum Heiddorf, Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 6, 19294 Neu Kaliß

+49 39 758 200 63
+49 172 88 55 692
Thu – Sun 1 pm – 6 pm

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