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Trésor
Noria Arai
Marc von Criegern
Mixed Media Art
Photography
Painting
Opening: Fr. 07.06.2024 19h
Introduction to the exhibition: Hella Nocke Schrepper
Wir machen Ferien. Daher bleibt die Galerie vom 05.08.-22.08.2024 geschlossen.
Ab dem 23.08. haben wir wieder geöffnet.
Finissage mit Künstlergespräch der aktuellen Ausstellung am So. 08.09. um 16h.
07.06.2024-08.09.2024
Marc von Criegern
1969 born in Stuttgart
studied at the Braunschweig Art Academy and the Düsseldorf Art Academy since 1990
Master student of Fritz Schwegler
1995-2000 he studied philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf 1991
He studied art at the San Antonio Art Institute (USA)
2000 he won the Art Prize of the Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken for the "Diderot Project" 2002
Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
2005 Member of the German Artists' Association
2012 Foundation of the artist duo "deckkraft" with Walter Eul
2021 Golden Cage project
About the works of Marc von Criegern
Born in Stuttgart in 1969, the artist studied at the Braunschweig Art Academy, the San Antonio Art Institute and the Düsseldorf Art Academy and completed his philosophy degree at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
In addition to his artistic exploration of the Encyclopédie Diderot et d'Alembert, for which he was awarded the Art Prize of the German Volksbanken in 1999, Marc von Criegern has in recent years been working on Flaubert's novel Bouvard and Pécuchet, to which many of his new paintings refer.
It is the balancing act between classical constructivism and surrealist iconography that characterises Marc von Criegern's paintings. And his bizarre characters. Employees of the Bartleby type. They go through their tasks with serious expressions. They stand in the midst of a barrage of apparatus. Pulling on wires. Examining strange machines. The memorable senselessness of their actions, the absurd persistence in seemingly meaningful gestures and their behaviour in a pictorial space that has lost its perspective, where shadows fall when they want to - all of this is condensed by Criegern into visual metaphors of great enigma. The mysterious paintings and drawings revolve around the theme of invention.
Marc von Criegern has spent a long time analysing the encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert and the illustrations it contains. On closer inspection, however, the seemingly schematically clear illustrations are misleading. Solutions are not to be expected here.
Rather: uncertainity. Yet the scientists, engineers and magicians stand so confidently amidst the web of lines of their apparatus. Like spiders. They pull the strings and are caught in their own web. Triumph and ruin. Painted in a pittura metafisica of the 21st century.
Noria Arai
Noria Arai *1993 studied documentary photography in Hanover and contemporary art in Hiroshima. She builds a bridge between Germany and Japan and works with cross-genre elements of photography, printmaking, text and performance. With her new series of photographic prints on Japanese gold paper, Noria Arai plays with the loss of control. Printer's ink runs onto precious metal, creating visual worlds reminiscent of ink painting.
2023 Solo-exhibition “zwischen“ Hebebühne, Wuppertal GER
2022 Solo-exhibition “Ein Fach Es“, L-Galery, Hiroshima, JP
2020 Duo-exhibition “KANJO“, Galery BOHAI, with Mari Ishiko, Hannover, GER
2020 Solo-exhibition “facial feedback“, feldfünf, Berlin, GER
2019 Solo-exhibition “Hin“, Coelner Zimmer, Düsseldorf, GER
2018 Solo-exhibition “DU“, The Blend INN, Osaka, JP
2017 Duo-exhibition “postoffice inside mother earth“, with Minako Itae, Bank of Hiroshima, JP
2016 Solo-Exhibition “a part“, Gallery 611, Hiroshima, JP
