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Ausstellungsansicht "Inge Dick. Ein Leben für das Licht", Galerie Renate Bender 2021

Exhibition view "Inge Dick. A Life for the Light", Galerie Renate Bender 2021

INGE DICK. A Life for the Light
Inge Dick on her 80th birthday

Exhibition from January 15th to April 16th, 2021

Inge Dick was born 1941 in Vienna, Austria. She lives and works in Innerschwand am Mondsee, Austria.

The retrospective exhibition on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the Austrian film and photo artist in January 2021 shows works from Inge Dick’s fourpart cycle “jahres licht weiss” (“a year’s light white”) with new square color excerpts. Looking back on her work, large format polaroids and a selection of her “white paintings” are on display where the oil paint is applied in small squares with great precision using a palette knife. Her new “golden paintings” will be exhibited for the first time in Munich.

“Light is Inge Dick’s life-long artistic theme. She works with natural light, a phenomenon that is not tangible but that we perceive as a palpable presence. Working for many years with a variety of media using a meticulous, almost scientific approach, she has succeeded in capturing the substance of light and rendering it visually as its color temperatures change over the course of a day.”

Gerda Ridler

exhibition catalog "Inge Dick. A Life for the Light" - 2021

exhibition brochure "Inge Dick. A Life for the Light" - 2021

Funded by:

NEU START KULTUR

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Ausstellungsansicht "The Responsive Eye's First and Second Generation", Galerie Renate Bender 2020. Foto: Bernhard Kreutzer

Ausstellungsansicht „The Responsive Eye’s First and Second Generation“, Galerie Renate Bender 2020. Foto: Bernhard Kreutzer

The Responsive Eye‘s First and Second Generation

Angelika Huber / Siegfried Kreitner / Jan van Munster / Pfeifer & Kreutzer / Hans Schork / Julius Stahl / Ludwig Wilding / Martin Willing

Exhibition from September 11th to October 31st, 2020

The title of our new exhibition, to be held on the occasion of Open Art 2020, refers to the “The Responsive Eye,” the 1965 exhibition shown at MoMA in New York. It featured the work of the first generation, i.e. artists of the 1960s, who had, for the first time, broken away from the traditional forms of artistic representation in the fine arts. The then curator at MoMA, William C. Seitz, sought out artists from around the world who experimented with the phenomenon of optical movement – whether real or illusionary. It was in the context of this exhibition that a journalist coined the term “Op Art.” The term was rejected, however, by many, including, among others, Ludwig Wilding, whose work was also presented in the exhibition. Despite the truth of his argument, namely, that “all art is optical art,” the term has endured until today.

In recent years, a younger generation of artists has once again taken up the subject matter of movement, light and sound – the “second generation” that is addressing this forever fascinating topic.

During the conceptual phase of our exhibition it was clear that Ludwig Wilding (1927-2010), who can be seen as the forerunner of this artistic movement in Germany, had to be included. But also the Aschaffenburg artist Hans Schork (b. 1935), who had focused at an early date on kinetics, and the Dutch artist Jan van Munster (b. 1939), who investigated “energy and perception” in the broadest sense of the terms, were both essential to our exhibition.

The “Second Generation” comprises the younger age group, led by Martin Willing (b. 1958) with his continuously moving fragile sculptures. Julius Stahl (b. 1978), who lives in Berlin and Dresden, creates similarly fragile objects, which he terms “Resonanz-Objekte” (Resonating Objects). In his “Quader” (Cuboid) series, he has constructed objects using the finest wire, in which the viewer perceives not only delicate movement but also the most subtle sounds. The Munich artist Siegfried Kreitner (b. 1967) is a master of constructing moving light sculptures. Amongst the youngest participants, the artist duo Anne Pfeifer (b.1987) and Bernhard Kreutzer (b. 1986) exhibit objects made of primarily colored acrylic glass with invisible stimulators that produce movement and sound. In contrast, Angelika Huber (b. 1977) repurposes split-flap displays, which were originally used to provide timetable information, creating vivid “pictures in motion” that change according to different rhythmic patterns.

exhibition brochure „The Responsive Eye’s First and Second Generation“ 2020

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