BESKEDER FRA ET HI
Hartmut Stockter
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Fernisering: fredag d. 20. januar kl. 17-20
21. januar – 18. februar 2012
Onsdag – lørdag kl. 12-17
Skulpturi er stolte af at præsentere Hartmut Stockters soloudstilling BESKEDER FRA ET HI, en udstilling om vinter og landskab. Stockters kunst er en særegen blanding af mærkelige instrumenter og genstande. Værkerne ligner ikke æstetiske objekter, men ting som tilsyneladende har en brugsværdi og et formål. De fleste af Stockters værker er apparater, som ser ud til at kunne tilbyde et nyt perspektiv og en anderledes oplevelse af landskabet.
Udstillingens værker er rumlige, men er tematisk tættere på landskabsmaleriet end skulpturen. Ligesom landskabsmaleren udvælger Stockter et motiv i naturen, og får beskueren til at opleve netop det perspektiv han har valgt. Modsat landskabsmaleren giver Stockters værker dog en mindre direkte oplevelse af motivet, men rejser nærmere billeder og lyde i beskueren frem for foran ham, som maleriet gør det. Værkerne giver en indre oplevelse af, hvordan det kunne være at bo på en kælk i et varmt telt og observere fugle eller se på blomster under sneen. Værkerne tænder en kropslig og sanselig oplevelse af det vinterlige landskab, som synes at gemme på ufortalte historier.
Der er i værkerne et gennemgående ønske om at komme tæt på landskabet og opleve det i sin enkelthed. Paradoksalt nok er mennesket dog nødt til at bruge sin opfindsomhed, til at konstruere finurlig teknik og maskineri for nå den ønskede tæthed med landskabet.
Hartmut Stockter (f. 1973) er fra den nordtyske by Wilhelmshaven, men har siden 2002 boet i København, hvor han har udstillet i en lang række sammenhænge, senest på Beaver Projects, Ringsted Galleriet, Rønnebæksholm og Sculpture by the Sea i Århus.
Venlig hilsen
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For yderligere information kontakt venligst:
Karin Lorentzen: +45 61684766 / karinlorentzen@hotmail.com
Philip Due Pihl: +45 61659157 / philippihl@hotmail.com
MESSAGES FROM HIBERNATION
Hartmut Stockter
Opening reception Friday January 20th from 5 to 8 p.m.
January 21st through February 18th 2012.
Wednesday – Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.
Skulpturi.dk is very pleased to announce this solo show by Hartmut Stockter (born 1973) Messages from Hibernation, an exhibition which focuses on winter and landscapes. Stockter’s works are rarely sculptures in any normal sense of the word but rather a kind of odd instruments and utensils. The works do not appear to be aesthetic objects, but rather functional items with a practical purpose. Most of Stockter’s works are a kind of apparatus which offers a new perspective on landscapes and a new kind of nature experience.
The works in the exhibition are spatial works, but perhaps thematically they are more closely related to landscape painting than they are to sculpture. Like the landscape painter Stockter chooses a motif in nature which he then lets the viewer experience from the precise perspective which he has chosen. Unlike landscape paintings, however, Stockter’s works do not mimic a direct experience of nature. They evoke images and sounds within the viewer rather than in front of her, as a painting would do. These works give you an idea of what it would be like to live in a warm tent on a sled from where you can observe the birdlife or look at the flowers beneath the snow. In this way the exhibition does not depict the landscape as a painting would do. The works instead evoke a bodily, sensory, experience of a winter landscape which seems to harbour numerous untold stories.
Throughout the works there seems to be a wish to get closer to the landscape, to experience the simple beauty of nature. Paradoxically though, the only approach to nature, and to this wish to be a part of nature, is apparently the invention and construction of tools and machinery.
Hartmut Stockter was born in the town of Wilhelmshaven in northern Germany, but has lived and worked in Copenhagen since 2002 and has had a number of exhibitions here. Within the last years his works could be seen at the gallery Beaver Projects, at Ringsted Galleriet, at Rønnebæksholm Castle and as part of Sculpture by the Sea in Aarhus.
Sincerely
Skulpturi.dk
For further information, please contact:
Karin Lorentzen: +45 61684766 / karinlorentzen@hotmail.com
Philip Due Pihl: +45 61659157 / philippihl@hotmail.com