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| Zeitgenössische Kunst * Köln Contemporary Art * Cologne |
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Klaus Geldmacher Sketches of Spain Music-Lighting-Objects 
New work series 2011 For the Adagio from the "Concierto de Aranjuez"by Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) Interpreted by: Miles Davis, Buckethead, Chet Baker/Paul Desmond, Larry Coryell, Milt Jackson/John Lewis, Paco da Lucia, Paolo Fresu With pictorial motifs from art works by: Salvador Dali, Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Antoni Tapies, Juan Gris, Miguel Berrocal and earlier Music-Light-Objects January 26 - March 10, 2012 Extented until March 31, 2012 Exhibition Views Ausstellungsansichten |
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Klaus Geldmacher (born 1940) lives and works in the town of Mülheim at the Ruhr where he was honored in 2011 with the Ruhr-award for art and science of the town of Muelheim/Ruhr 2010 (together with the chemist Prof. Ferdi Schüth). In 1968 he already took part in the documenta 4 (Kassel, Germany) together with Franceso Mariotti. Two years before he was awarded 2nd place at the German youth art prize for painting . Surprisingly the selected art work wasn't a painting at all but Klaus Geldmacher's first lighting-object. In contrast to his more recent objects the design was rather strict and graphical. The visual impression let us think of the surface of a slot machine game or a pinball machine.
The focus of the show at KunstRaum H&H lies on 7 music-lighting-objects created in 2011 and now presented to the public for the first time. Their music parts are variations from the Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo interpreted by renowned jazz musicians, and the video clips contain pictorial motifs from works of famous colleagues. Therefore we find among others work titles like Chet-Paul Picasso (Chet Baker / Paul Desmond) or Miles Dali . But the core piece of each work is the light assembly into which the music and video elements are incorporated. Klaus Geldmacher never concealed or covered the technical parts of his works, and he still doesn't do it. Therefore we see twisted webs of thin cables, sockets of light bulbs, LED tubes and electronic boards as well as digital picture frames. As usual also found objects and utensils of everyday life are integrated. Kitchen tools are especially suitable e.g. the salad strainer which is a wonderful tool for producing surprising lighting effects. At this point we already guess that the artist by no means creates fashionable trash-art but three-dimensional expressive light paintings full of color. Playing with light and color Klaus Geldmacher succeeds in creating art works of a seductive sensuality. The colors expand and melt together. The space between the single elements is part of this process and becomes hereby an integrated part of the work: colors overlap and merge in those spaces. The emerging compositions are not static but arise again and again in the circuits of sequences of light and glow which the beholder may stop as he likes meanwhile the music and the video are still playing. The interaction with the work is a delightful play with light, color and music, and we should take our time for it. Petra & Jens Herrmann |
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Information about Klaus Geldmacher
(Leporello in German by C15, Collection Ulla und Heinz Lohmann, Hamburg) |
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