Maik and Dirk Löbbert
The brothers Maik and Dirk Löbbert (sometimes also called Löbbert ) are German sculptors and are very active in the artistic and architectural fields.
Biographies
Maik Löbbert was born in Gelsenkirchen in 1958 . From 1984 to 1987 he studied photography at the University of Kassel with Floris M. Neusüss , and from 1987 to 1990 painting / sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a master student with Fritz Schwegler . He has been the rector of the Münster Art Academy since 2005 .
Dirk Löbbert was born in Wattenscheid in 1960 . From 1983 to 1988 he studied sculpture at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences as a master student and from 1988 to 1992 sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Erich Reusch and Irmin Kamp , also as a master student. Since 2001 he has been a professor of sculpture at the Art Academy in Münster.
The collaboration began in 1985 and, since 2001, a joint professorship for sculpture at the Münster Art Academy. Both brothers are full members of the German Association of Artists .
Artistic creation
For Maik and Dirk Löbbert, the perception of the special in everyday life is the central theme. You deal with the perception of the environment as well as the exploration of the relationship between perceiving and recognizing the environment. They also include the history of the location of their exhibitions. In this way, works are created that relate to the respective space and also consist of changing interventions in the architectural substance. The architecture is part of an overall concept into which the Löbbert brothers weave both sculptural and picturesque elements, with reference to the inhabitants of the architecture. The intensive preoccupation with the human environment shaped by the architecture is already visible in the early works. The ›bulky waste works‹ from 1985 to 1987 relate to their immediate surroundings.
After site-specific work, the Löbbert brothers became increasingly interested in the fixed architecture. With ›Integrationsobjekt Kanalstrasse‹ in Hanover , they make the normal passer-by at least pause for a moment: an actually inconspicuous department store wall has undergone a minimal change and thus disturbed the habit, in this case the typical German inner city architecture. The artists take up the shape and structure of the department store facade by leaning a rectangular body diagonally against the house wall; the existing electrical box is integrated through a recess; the body is clad with the same bricks as the wall, but it is rotated 90 degrees. This “our work”, according to Maik and Dirk Löbbert, “corresponds, among other things, with the shop window display cases and the tiled facade, ie with the pictures, sculptures and reliefs of this selected inner city situation that we already have”.
Awareness of architecture and movement
In Lighting , a project from 1997 in the sculpture mile of the city of Schwerte , Maik and Dirk Löbbert placed a lantern of the latest type (one of the so-called urban furniture) over an existing street lamp symbolizing the good old days .
The artists make use of the fact that people are barely aware of the architecture in which they are constantly staying. The same applies to the movement that they picked up on, among other things, with their work in 1988 at the University of Düsseldorf : on the 5th floor of the building there is a circle of dark gray carpet that was laid so that part of the circle is in the elevator cabins is located. If the elevators are in motion, the subsegments travel with them. Since part of the circle is always in motion, the circle never closes.
With their art-in-building project Teich und Stege in Tilburg , the Netherlands , the Löbberts vary the subject of movement - and at the same time take up the architecture again. You can create a pond with two bridges that protrude into it from opposite sides. They are appendages of the existing public cycle path network in the city. But they tear this network apart, as the tracks converge, but ultimately do not meet and end in the water.
In 1997 at the Bonner Kunstverein , the artists broke an opening in the wall in the corridor of the Artothek, the dimensions of which were identical to the dimensions of the pictures hung there. This opening made it possible to have a different view of the Kunstverein's exhibition space.
literature
- Anne Schloen: Rethinking Spaces or Why the Last Layer is White , in: "Ruhrgebietsbuch", ed. v. Markus Weckesser and Jörg Sundermeier, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-940426-50-5 . Pp. 131-136.
- "Maik + Dirk Löbbert - inside-outside-inside-outside-dentrofuori". Exhibition cat. Meran art - Merano arte, Meran. With contributions by Valerio Dèho and Manfred Schneckenburger. Texts in German, English and Italian. Editing: Thomas Donga-Durach. Design: Rebecca Schröder. 112 pages. Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg 2008. ISBN 978-3-940748-72-0 .
- Anne Schloen: Maik and Dirk Löbbert. Change of context , in: Cat. "Maik and Dirk Löbbert. Layer", Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen 2005. ISBN 3-935420-10-2
- "Maik + Dirk Löbbert - Intermezzo". Exhibition cat. Municipal art gallery, Mannheim. With contributions by Hans-Jürgen Buderer and Thomas Donga. Texts in German and English. 136 pages with 64 color and 66 b / w illustrations. Cologne 1999.
- Bernhard Waldenfels : Orders of the visible . In: Gottfried Böhm (Ed.): What is a picture? . Munich 1994.
- Victor-Emil von Gebsattel , in: Alexander Gosztony: The space, history of its problems in philosophy and science . Freiburg / Munich 1976, Vol. II.
- Renato de Fusco: Architecture as a mass medium. Notes on a semiotics of built forms . Wiesbaden 1995.
- Henri Lefebvre: Everyday Life in the Modern World . Frankfurt am Main 1972 (Original: La vie quotidienne dans le monde moderne , Paris 1968).
- Detlef Bluemler , Klaus FB Oczipka: At the foot of the solitaire - architecture of everyday life. Laubacher Feuilleton No. 6, Munich 1993.
- Wolfgang Welsch : On the topicality of aesthetic thinking . In: Kunstforum International, vol. 100, April / May 1989.
- Lothar Romain : The withdrawal of self-portrayals, From putting down to presenting art in the city . In: Cat. Im Lärm der Stadt, 10 installations in Hanover city center, ed. v. Lothar Romain, Hanover 1991.
Web links
swell
- Detlef Bluemler: The perception of the special in the everyday . In: Artists - Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art , ed. v. Lothar Romain and Detlef Bluemler, issue 43, issue 22, Munich 1998.
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "L" / Dirk Löbbert (accessed on November 2, 2015)
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "L" / Maik Löbbert (accessed on November 2, 2015)