danach
draußen refers to a stage after the event already happened (danach),
and to those who remained outside (draußen).
Two
of Jan Stieding's four paintings show deserted stages, the other two
show figures that were taken from Eastern German socialist propaganda
posters, promoting the heroes of labor. Staged in the 1970s the heroes
look considerably different from the enthusiastic and proud
depictions we know from earlier years. They look forlorn as they
engage in undefined activities. Translating the method of
photographic collage to painting, Stieding took them out of their
context and inserted them into his own world.
Jan
Stieding was born in 1966 in Bad Langensalzen/Thüringen in Germany.
He lives and works in Düsseldorf. He
studied from 1991 – 94 at the HDK in Dresden and at the
Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. In his paintings and works on paper
Stieding engages with biographical recollections and universal, mostly
ambivalent topics. Melancholy and ease, beauty and tragedy,
loneliness and togetherness describe a tightrope walk between the
pursuit of happiness and the collapse of utopias and ideals and their
protagonists. He showed his work in numerous solo and group
exhibitions.
In
the past two years Jörg Wagner has been interested in the geographic
and spatial manifestations of fences and their social implications.
Surveying boundaries like the fence in Belfast that protects people
on either side from projectiles and explosives, the anti-immigration
fence between the US border and Mexico, the ubiquitous standard Euro
fence and the chain link fences that are used around private
properties, Wagner noticed an increasing demand for fences in our
increasingly global culture. Wagner creates photosensitive cyanotype
copies of fences in a scale of 1:1. He burns traces of the actual
objects onto paper.
Born
1967 in Waiblingen, Germany, Jörg Wagner studiert sculpture at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. As an artist and a lecturer he lives in
Cologne. Most of his work is developed at specific locations. He
visited Japan, the USA, Australia and Ireland to produce his
installations. He showed his work in numerous solo and group
exhibitions.
With
their curatorial project 'die Beton Bar', Jan Stieding and Jörg
Wagner were the main inspiration for the inception of LAMOA. At the
end of my search for a suitable location to host 'die Beton Bar' I
decided to build a museum to be able to organize art projects. I'm
proud to say that after three years the exhibition is finally
happening. In collaboration with Jan Stieding and Jörg Wagner we
built a concrete bar that will be activated during the opening.
http://betonbar.blogspot.com/
http://betonbar.blogspot.com/
In
conjunction with the exhibition we will also host an editions and
publications fair.
The
participating artists and publishers will be:
Commonwealth
and Council
DTW>LAX.
LAX>DTW
ERIC GERO / Editions
Paul Gellman
Paul Gellman
Holoholo
books, Comment Section #2
LAMOA
book store
Molly
Larkey
The
Pit
Prism of Reality
Prism of Reality
Statler
Waldorf Gallery
Irene
Tsatsos
and
others
The
fair will open at 3:30PM, the event will go until 10PM
Opening
reception from 5-10PM
The
exhibition will be on view until the 10th of May
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| Beton Bar (concrete bar) |
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| Beton Bar (concrete bar) Beton Bar is a project by Jan Steiding and Jörg Wagner Beton Bar, 2015, concrete, plaster, metal, and matte board was made for the exhibition "danach draußen" by Jan Stieding and Jörg Wagner in collaboration with Alice Könitz |
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Beton Bar (concrete bar)
Beton Bar is a project by Jan Steiding and Jörg Wagner
Beton Bar, 2015, concrete, plaster, metal, and matte board was made for the exhibition "danach draußen" by Jan Stieding and Jörg Wagner in collaboration with Alice Könitz
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| Paintings by Jan Stieding clockwise starting above left: " danach", untitled (draußen), "nacht", untitled, (draußen2)
2015, oil on canvas 28 x 38 in
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| Fence installation by Jörg Wagner untitled, 2015, blueprint on paper, size variable |
