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until 09.03. | #4141ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from 26th January 2024 the exhibition with works by the artists Claudia Busching and Alexander Klenz.
The immediacy with which something abruptly breaks off, reappears elsewhere or finally disappears completely could be a first approach to Claudia Busching’s works. In her paper collages, a multitude of strong lines in black ink, charcoal, graphite or acrylic sweep across delicate layers of various paper fragments, whose arrangement evokes the impression of a multi-layered “visual fabric”. The lines are an expression of gestural movement, in which the hand often seems to have preceded the eyes. A line often ends abruptly at the end of “its” sheet and then appears to be taken up again elsewhere in the collage – sometimes, on the other hand, it remains a singular, absolute event. This artistic reflection on motif and repetition, which is as sensitive as it is resolute, sometimes almost echoes the related interplay of rhythm and composition in music. The placing, positioning and laying of lines and surfaces between chance and conscious action challenges us viewers to allow the immediacy with which something abruptly breaks off and (does not/reappears) as an experience of how something abruptly breaks off – into the imagination of the viewer.
Text: Isabel Groll
Claudia Busching, born in Munich in 1954, lives in Berlin, studied painting at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, master student, scholarships from the Kunstfonds Bonn, the Senator for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, Casa Baldi, Olevano Romano; since 2000, in addition to her artistic practice, several curatorial projects on the subject of drawing. Exhibitions: see www.galeriekondeyne.de
Claudia Busching, o.T., 2028, charcoal, acrylic, 58 x 43 cm
In his new works, Alexander Klenz retains almost the same proven sheet format. On the other hand, they are now to a certain extent freed from the legend integrated into the sheet, which was the result of Klenz’s well-known long-term project. The vocabulary of forms also seems to have been expanded; a differently placed, mostly square, deep black surface is surrounded by fields of restrained, painterly colour; occasionally comb-like pencil hatchings point into the picture; signs and abbreviations float through the sheet, connecting the fields, delimiting them or supporting an effect of depth. Sequences of sheets related to one another, characterised by the rhythm of the black rectangles, can be discovered. An invitation to a detailed examination of the individual sheets and the interlinked sheets in the exhibition’s sequence.
Alexander Klenz, o.T., 2024, Lacquer, watercolour, graphite, chalk, 50 x 45 cm
Alexander Klenz, born 1974 in Bützow; 1995 – 2001 studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee under Hanns Schimansky and Dieter Goltzsche; 2002-2003 master student under Hanns Schimansky; 2012 nominated for the Rostock Art Prize for Graphics, Rostock; since 2018 co-initiator of the exhibition series “Focus on Abstraction” (FOA), Berlin; 2020/21 special scholarship from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin; 2022 “Neustart Kultur”, special scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn. For exhibitions see www.galeriekondeyne.de.
Alexander Klenz, o.T., 2024, varnish, watercolour, graphite, chalk, 50 x 45 cm
At the same time, the Wichtendahl Gallery backstage is opening the exhibition ANNETTE SCHRÖTER “More of Schreber’s Garden”.
Vernissage: Friday, 26. January 2024, 5:00 until 8:00 pm
Exhibition period: Friday, 26. January – Saturday, 9. March 2024
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Image caption title: Claudia Busching, o.T., 2021, ink, various papers, 91,5 x 197,5 cm
Exhibition Claudia Busching + Alexander Klenz – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
