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Transit II - Stephan Kaluza: “Fiction - Nonfiction”
Stephan Kaluza and the essence of nature
The latest works of the artist in the gallery Geuer & Geuer Art in Düsseldorf
8 April 2022 until 30 April 2022
Stephan Kaluza in his atelier in Düsseldorf
© by Stephan Kaluza
In his new series "Transit II" Stephan Kaluza deals with the essence of nature: plants, trees and water look like photographs, but are painted in detail, with the artist playfully staging light and shadow.
The artist is not concerned with the exact imitation of nature, but rather, as he puts it, with "the sensual pausing and re-perception of creation." In conceiving the works, he sketches many different sketches, makes collages from them, and then assembles the artworks. Some pictures shine in the sunshine and some fade under an artistic veil.
In addition, as a counterpoint to "Transit II" "Somnia" film stills are presented in the exhibition. Here, Stephan Kaluza creates sequences of scenes in which the protagonists are currently caught up - and thus tells the viewer a new story.
Stephan Kaluza explains, "The staged meets the natural - so both exhibitions can definitely be understood as complementary - the artificiality of the cinematic world in 'Somnia' is juxtaposed with the naturalness of nature in 'Transit'."
The Rhine Project
In 2020, the artist had installed his photographic artwork, over 100 meters long and 2.35 meters high, on the Düsseldorf Hotel Hyatt The Wellem.
He had walked along the Rhine for over 8 months from its source in Piz Badus to its mouth in Rotterdam, taking photographs at regular intervals. His 21,449 photographs are the first complete documentation of the Rhine. The work of art bears the name: "Everything remains in the river - Stephan Kaluza - The Rhine Project".
His work of art was in harmony with the art project "Action Blue" of the artist environmental activist HA Schult had made the beginning with the art project "Action Blue" in the entire hotel area. The trigger for both art actions was that the river Düssel flows here directly under the Andreas Quartier and flows into the Rhine.
Stephan Kaluza and his galerist Dirk Geuer
©Geuer & Geuer Art
Stephan Kaluza was born in Bad Iburg on April 5, 1964. He studied at the Hochschule Düsseldorf, Peter Behrens School of Art and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His works have been shown at the Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, the Kunsthallen Düsseldorf and Osnabrück, the Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, the Kunstverein Bethanien, Berlin, among others. Stephan Kaluza is also the author of plays, audio plays and literary prose. The second edition of his illustrated book "The Rhine Project" has just been published, as well as an essay on the philosophy of nature from the perspective of art entitled "Die dritte Natur - die Kunstnatur als Totale und Idyll".
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Dirk Geuer, managing director of Geuer & Geuer Art GmbH, has been working as a curator, exhibition organizer and publisher of exclusive editions in Germany and abroad since 1989 and is the third generation of his family to be active in the art market.
Dirk Geuer works with artists such as Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack, Julian Schnabel, Tony Cragg, among others.
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VERNISSAGE
Transit II - Stephan Kaluza and the essence of nature, 8 April 2022
8 April 2022 until 30 April 2022
Vernissage: Friday, April 8, 2021 - 7.30 p.m.
Geuer & Geuer Art, Heinrich-Heine-Allee 19, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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