Felizita's mentel
Felizitas Mentel (born June 6, 1946 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German artist. She lives and works in Ludwigshafen - Rheingönheim .
life and work
Felizitas Mentel has lived in Ludwigshafen am Rhein since her primary school days . From 1964 to 68 she studied graphics at the Free Academy Mannheim with Paul Berger-Bergner . In the 1970s she created graphics, collages and frottage of “industrial landscapes”. In the early 1980s, landscape graphics and collages in an informal style developed from this. In the mid-1980s she began to deal with the subject of light and incorporated it in the form of self-bent neon tubes . In these neon murals from that time, the tubes form the landscape lines and thus emphasize their shape.
Here, as in the purely graphic work of Felizitas Mentel, a change in perspective took place in the following years. Panoramic views were replaced by the focus on landscape details, the horizon lines disappeared completely, especially in the work cycle on the subject of lava fields. In the case of the neon lead folds, only sections of lava landscapes are shown in which the neon tubes represent glowing lava flows breaking through the surface.
Parallel to the examination of landscape forms and the earth's primal forces, another area of work with neon, the neon steel reliefs, developed over the course of time. These are much more abstract, here above all clear forms emerge. The steel bodies are emphasized by the neon tubes, at the same time they form a contrast to their surface and give them color. The last work areas so far are a continuation of the focus on the subject of light. On the one hand, neon lead sculptures were created, on the other hand sculptures made of luminescent Plexiglas as well as installations made of fluorescent glass fiber fleece.
Awards and grants
- 1983: Scholarship at the Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg eV, Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
- 1984: Hans Purrmann Prize of the City of Speyer
- 1984: Working grant from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (neon objects and neon pictures)
- 1985: Working grant from the city of Wolfsburg
- 1993: Working grant from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate (neon steel sculptures)
- 2008: Palatinate Prize for Fine Arts
Own exhibitions (selection)
- 1979: Kunstverein Unna
- 1980: Städtische Galerie Untere Schranne , Biberach an der Riss
- 1981: Solingen Blade Museum
- 1982: Middle Rhine Museum , Koblenz
- 1982 Wilhelm Hack Museum (Scharpf Gallery), Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- 1983: Ebernburg artists' station, Bad Münster am Stein - Ebernburg
- 1985: Kunstverein Speyer
- 1986: Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
- 1988: Westphalian State Museum , Münster
- 1988: Museum Gelsenkirchen
- 1995: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
- 2005: Städtische Galerie Speyer (together with Thomas Duttenhöfer)
- 2007: Herrenhof (Mußbach) in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
- 2009/2010: Exhibition in the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Participation in exhibitions (selection)
- 1975: Young West Art Prize at the Recklinghausen Art Gallery
- 1977: Baden-Württemberg State Professional Association, Stuttgart
- 1979: Orangery Kassel , proposed scholarship holders - Villa Massimo , Rome
- 1980: Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe
- 1982: Hambach Festival , Hambach Castle
- 1984: Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz, artist from Rhineland-Palatinate
- 1986: Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, works that develop out of the ground
- 1987: Fellbach, light art
- 1988: Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe , Back to nature, but how? Art of the last 20 years
- 1992: Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , District Association Palatinate , The Palatinate today
- 1993: Stadtgalerie Mainz, APK annual exhibition and EAM Kassel, light - glass - art
- 1996: Herrenhof Mußbach, APK annual exhibition
- 2005: Museum Ettlingen - Object and Color
Selection of work carried out in publicly accessible buildings
- Headquarters of EnBW , Karlsruhe
- Ministry of the Interior of Saxony, State Police School Chemnitz
- Head Office Heidelberg
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein, town house south
- Ministry of the Interior Rhineland-Palatinate Police Headquarters Ludwigshafen
Bibliography (selection)
- 1976: Structures Structuring Structured
- 1985: Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , Felizitas Mentel - working with light and color
- 1995: Kunsthalle Bielefeld , Felizitas Mentel - lava field
- 2009: Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , Felizitas Mentel - sculptures, installations
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Palatinate Prize for Fine Art ( Memento from July 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ISBN 978-3-89422-164-5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mentel, Felizitas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kempten (Allgäu) |