Bruno Gronen

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Bruno Gronen (born July 24, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German light artist .

Career

After training as a typesetter in Augsburg between 1955 and 1958, he studied from 1958 to 1962 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Franz Nagel and graduated in 1970 with a diploma from the academy. He went on numerous study trips to Europe and stayed in Sri Lanka from 1962 to 1964. Gronen married Marlini Wickrama Sinha in 1961 and traveled to New York and Chicago from 1976 to 1978. He lives and works in Cologne .

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Marta Cencillo Ramírez writes, among other things, about his work: “With playful ease and the humor of an experienced provocateur, Bruno Gronen (...) enlivens exhibition spaces (...) with emotionally touching light color auras (...). By positioning them to one another and overall in the exhibition space, he creates standardized, functional, externally determined and massively available colored light tubes (...). Force fields, rhythms and movement potentials with a sensual effect. Bruno Gronen's arrangements present themselves in the border area between painting and object as harmonious snapshots, poles of calm in a dynamic process of change and cover all spatial dimensions: depth, width, height. "

Regarding an exhibition in Siegen, she says: “You can think about these meanings in many layers (a cross of light, directional coordinates in space), but you don't need to. Because with their colored light, the installations enchant the exhibition rooms in which they are presented, the studies and drawings fascinate with their simplicity, materiality and colors, and every work touches us emotionally, spontaneously. "

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009/10 Association for Current Art Oberhausen
  • 2008 Kunstverein Siegen
  • 2007 Martini Church, Siegen, Cuenca Gallery, Ulm.
  • 2001 ER RASHID Gallery, Düsseldorf, Berndt Gallery, Cologne.
  • 1996 Gallery Cuenca, Ulm.
  • 1993 Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid.
  • 1992 Museum for Art and Cultural History, Goch.
  • 1989 Painting on site I, Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne.
  • 1988 Sebastian's chapel, Ulm.
  • 1985 Galerie M. Wilkens and D. Jacobs, Cologne, Forum Kunst Rottweil.
  • 1971 Seyquer Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
  • 1970 Gallery Schiessel, Cologne.
  • 1966 Art Forum, Essen.
  • 1963 Lionel Wendt Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

He has been in group exhibitions at the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen (POP art of the 1960s; 1991), the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (foundation stone boxes 1996), the Museum Goch (The Decoration of Books; 1996) and the Temporary Light Museum (Cologne; 2004).

literature

  • Bruno Gronen 1965-2000; Bacht Grafische Betriebe und Verlag GmbH, Essen, 2000
  • Bruno Gronen 1991, City of Goch, Museum for Art and Cultural History of the City of Goch, 1992
  • Bruno Gronen. Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid 12 March to 25 April 1993, Cultural Department of the City of Lüdenscheid, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, 1993

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kunstforum international, Volume 28, Issue 4 - Volume 30, Issue 6, page 232 Verlag Kunstforum International, 1978
  2. ^ Heinz Beck: Beck Pop Collection , Rheinland-Verlag, 1970, page 74
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / light-art-laboratory.eu
  4. ↑ http://alt.kunstverein-siegen.de/indexgr.htm?programm/index.htm,/programm/ausstell30.htm
personal data
SURNAME Gronen, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German light artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg