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until 24.02. | #4143ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 13th January 2024 the exhibition The Light Behind by the artist Dieter Jung.
KORNFELD Galerie Berlin is pleased to present works by the artist Dieter Jung in the exhibition “The Light Behind”. It is the first exhibition in Berlin for a long time to show a concentrated selection of groundbreaking works of holographic art. The exhibition centres on the work “Pendulum and its Shadow” and the holograms, complemented by paintings, drawings and graphics from the last few decades.
The brightly coloured eye-catcher of the exhibition is a minimalist forest of holographs, which are in dialogue with the different light conditions of the interior and exterior space on the window front facing the gallery’s garden. This part of the exhibition will look different every hour of the day. The holographic image realises itself as a visual attraction not only through the individual viewing perspective. As translucent screens, holograms are artistic events in the now, aesthetics of the moment in the direct sense of the word: kairos poetry.With the concept of the exhibition in Fasanenstraße, the gallery is playing with a basic characteristic of the medium with which Dieter Jung works most intensively and which has earned him his worldwide reputation. The hologram is fractally structured. Each individual segment of the image body contains its whole. Even when fragmented, we can see the entire composition. The same applies to the individual artefacts in the exhibition. They have been carefully selected so that each individual exhibit contains the artist’s huge oeuvre, which consists of more than 20,000 pieces.
Dieter Jung began exploring the particle-wave duality of quantum physics in his paintings back in the 1970s in New York and Paris. His filigree coloured pencil drawings are meticulous studies of how lines and delicate nuances of colour can be brought into a harmonious relationship with one another. The large-format canvas paintings anticipate and reflect his light art in equal measure. The network in which Dieter Jung has developed and established himself artistically includes the ZERO artists Piene, Mack and Uecker as well as Gerhard Richter’s colour and geometry games. Alberto Giaccometti, whom Jung met in his studio in Paris, is represented in the exhibition with a portrait that represents the “Kopfbilder” series. The reference to Alexander Calder appears with a beautifully filigree mobile, the “Navigator” from 1996/97, which hovers in front of the painting “See Through Landscape” from 1982 and seems to form an indissoluble unit with it.
The gallery’s cabinet is dedicated to Dieter Jung’s more marginal works, which nevertheless epitomise his extremely heterogeneous oeuvre. The exhibition provides an almost intimate insight into the first holographic experiments with flying feathers or a moving joint work with the great Russian physicist and holography inventor Yuri Nikolayevich Denisyuk. The close collaboration with great intellectuals of the 20th century, which Dieter Jung cultivated throughout his life, flashes up in the experimental text holograms with the Prague cultural philosopher Vilém Flusser and the writer Hans-Magnus Enzensberger. Peter Weibel, who dedicated Jung’s most extensive solo exhibition to date at the Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media in 2019, also appears here, as does a minimal cube that is particularly important to the artist: the trapped light – “Blue Box – The Trapped Light” from 2003/04.
(Siegfried Zielinski)
Born in Bad Wildungen in 1941, Dieter Jung studied theology, painting, graphic art and film studies in Berlin and Paris. Jung’s pioneering holographic art has been shown in international exhibitions since 1965, earning him worldwide recognition. In his wide-ranging ensemble of paintings, drawings, graphics and installations, viewers are invited into a play of colour and light, of surface and space.
In addition to his artistic work, Jung worked as a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT from 1985 to 1989 and was a member of the founding council of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in 1990/91, where he was Professor of Creative Holography and Light Art until 2007. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe from 1992 to 1996 and has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ZERO Foundation in Düsseldorf since 2010. The artist’s archive and a significant selection of his works are part of the collection of the ZKM in Karlsruhe, which honoured Dieter Jung with a solo exhibition in 2019. Dieter Jung currently lives and works in Berlin.
Vernissage: Saturday, 13 January 2024, 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 13 January – Saturday, 24 February 2024
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Image caption: courtesy of Galerie Kornfeld, Dieter Jung
Exhibition Dieter Jung – Galerie Kornfeld | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
