Just the Blink of an Eye...30 years of Rosa M Hessling at Galerie Renate Bender

MATTER FOLLOW MIND – 1998, FOR LINZ – 2011, pigment, lacquer on aluminum, 200 x 287 x 10 cm, Kunstsammlung OÖ, LINZ-AT, 2011

METANOIA-SANFT – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, nine pieces, 116 x 153 cm

METANOIA I – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 1

METANOIA I – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 2

METANOIA II – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 1

METANOIA II – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 2

METANOIA VI– 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 15 x 15 cm

METANOIA VII – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 15 x 15 cm

METANOIA IX – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm

METANOIA XI – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, d. 15 cm

METANOIA XII – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, d. 21 cm

METANOIA XIV – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, d. 30 cm

LICHTTANK IX – 2022, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 127 cm, four pieces, view 1

LICHTTANK IX – 2022, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 127 cm, four pieces, view 2

LICHTTANK X – 2022, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 127 cm, four pieces, view 1

LICHTTANK X – 2022, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 127 cm, four pieces, view 2

EVERGLOW 100 – 2023, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm

EVERGLOW 085 HRO – 2022, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm

EVERGLOW 010 HO-K – 2021, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 15 x 15 cm

EVERGLOW 067 HGRW-K – 2021, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 15 x 15 cm

LICHTTANK I – 2020, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 1

LICHTTANK I – 2020, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 2

LICHTTANK III – 2020, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 1

LICHTTANK III – 2020, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 2

ECHO NOBLE II-2 – 2020, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 1

ECHO NOBLE II-2 – 2020, pigment, lacquer on mirrored glass, 30 x 30 cm, view 2

UNTOLD SUCCESSFUL STORIES I – 2019, pigment, lacquer on alucobond, 40 x 81,2 cm, two pieces, view 1

UNTOLD SUCCESSFUL STORIES I – 2019, pigment, lacquer on alucobond, 40 x 81,2 cm, two pieces, view 2

TRANSFORMATION I – 2017, pigment, lacquer on alucobond, 60 x 60 cm, view 1

TRANSFORMATION I – 2017, pigment, lacquer on alucobond, 60 x 60 cm, view 2

MEERAUM II – 2014, pigment, lacquer on aludibond, 120 x 120 cm, view 1

MEERAUM II – 2014, pigment, lacquer on aludibond, 120 x 120 cm, view 2

ZARTKRAFT III – 2013, pigment, lacquer on aludibond, 60 x 150 cm

ZARTKRAFT IV – 2013, pigment, lacquer on aludibond, 60 x 150 cm

TIEFSEH II – 2003, pigment, lacquer on nettle on wood, 120 x 120 cm (view detail on title)

CHANGE ONE’S MIND III – 2001, Pigment, Lack auf Nessel auf Holz, 120 x 120 cm

3 x GELB – 1991, pigment, acrylic on cotton, 78 x 100 cm, three pieces, view 1

3 x GELB – 1991, pigment, acrylic on cotton, 78 x 100 cm, three pieces, view 2

TREASURE ISLAND 490 – 2001, r-print on aludibond, acrylic glass, 120 x 42 cm

TREASURE ISLAND 493 – 2001, r-print on aludibond, acrylic glass, 120 x 42 cm

TREASURE ISLAND 494 – 2001, r-print on aludibond, acrylic glass, 120 x 42 cm

TREASURE ISLAND 497 – 2001, r-print on aludibond, acrylic glass, 120 x 42 cm

TREASURE ISLAND 498 – 2001, r-print on aludibond, acrylic glass, 120 x 42 cm

TREASURE ISLAND 499 – 2001, r-print on aludibond, acrylic glass, 120 x 42 cm

TROPPO VERO I – 2000, r-print on aludibond, acrylic glass, 40 x 118 cm

TROPPO VERO II – 2000, r-print on aludibond, acrylic glass, 40 x 118 cm

 

Just the Blink of an Eye...
30 years of Rosa M Hessling at Galerie Renate Bender

Opening: Friday, November 10, 2023, 6 to 8 pm
(at 6:30 introduction to the work of Rosa M Hessling Prof. Dr. Karin Stempel)
Matinee: Saturday, November 11, 2023, 12 to 4 pm
Finissage: Saturday, January 13, 2024, 12 to 4 pm. The artist will be present.

Exhibition at Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
November 10th, 2023 to January 13th, 2024

A catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition with a text contribution by Prof. Dr. Karin Stempel

Rosa M Hessling was born in 1954 in Zell/Mosel, Germany, where she lives and works. 

The development of Rosa M Hessling’s artistic work is not only characterized by a increasing differentiation and nuance of the modes of action of her pictures, (…) but is also associated with an increasing deceleration of the physical movement of the viewer in space. Rather, the viewer’s gaze rests in a finely choreographed spectacle of turbulence, in which implosions and explosions of color thwart and traverse. There is a figure of light which detaches itself from the color body that opens in a brilliant glow like a flower, an inflamed glow that illuminates everything and its gaze draws into an infinite depth, extinguishing in the whirlpool of this movement, in order to get out of it to emerge again from the subterranean glow. Gently pulsating, quietly floating, triumphantly shining, sinking into itself, smoldering and glowing – imago viva – here painting takes place as a visionary show.

Karin Stempel 

(Excerpt from the text contribution “Rosa M Hessling” in the exhibition catalog)