Exhibition Christian Schiebe – Stella A.

until 25.05. | #4231ARTatBerlin | Galerie Stella A shows from 24. March 2024 the exhibition Sea & Sky by the artist Christian Schiebe.

This exhibition is dedicated to the American poet Robert Lax. We are showing drawings by Christian Schiebe, which he has selected to accompany poems from the cycle Sea & Sky by Robert Lax. Christian Schiebe’s drawings are characterized by reduction and concentration, as can also be found in Robert Lax’s minimalist poems. The drawings are conceived by Christian Schiebe as “wall objects for a silent room”. The grid, the fragment, the trace and the material deal with aspects of the initial and the ephemeral. The small-format pencil, pen and colored pencil drawings, which alternate between indeterminacy and precision, create states of suspension through repetition and variation.

Robert Lax was born in 1915 in Olean, New York. He studied at Columbia University in New York in the 1930s. The poet Thomas Merton and the painter Ad Reinhardt were among his companions. In 1949, he toured Canada’s west with a circus. In 1950/51 he lived in Paris and Marseille, in the summer of 1951 he visited Rome and again traveled through Italy with a circus. He later worked for the New Yorker and Time Magazine and in 1953 as co-editor of Jubilee magazine. After traveling extensively in Italy and France in the 1950s, he moved to Greece in 1962, first to the island of Kalymnos and later to the island of Patmos. According to his own account, he moved to the islands in search of a place where he could live cheaply and work on his poems in peace. Shortly before his death in 2000, he returned to his home town of Olean.

Robert Lax’s work has experienced alternating phases of recognition and oblivion. His fame in Germany is based in part on the extraordinary documentary film by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel from 1999. Fortunately, you can watch this film, which follows Robert Lax’s life on the Greek island of Patmos, on YouTube. Why should I buy a bed when all that I want is sleep? – A chamber film with Robert Lax

Opening: Sunday ,24. March 2024, 3 – 6 pm

Exhibition dates: Sunday, 24. March – Saturday, 25. May 2024

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Image caption: O.T., Colored pencil and varnish on paper, 19,5 x 25,5 cm, 2020

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