Giso Westing
Giso Westing (born May 1, 1955 in Hanover ) is a German painter .
Life
Westing studied from 1975 to 1982 at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig . His teachers there include Alfred Winter-Rust and Lienhard von Monkiewitsch . Giso Westing was a member of the German Association of Artists from 1988 to 1997. He participated in the major DKB annual exhibitions in 1985 (in the Kunstverein Hannover ), 1987 (in the Kunsthalle Bremen ), 1988 (in the gallery of the city of Stuttgart ) and 1990 (in the Academy of Arts in Berlin).
For his work he received the Rome Scholarship Villa Massimo (1986/87), the Sprengel Prize (1990) and most recently the art prize of the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament (2005). His pictures have so far been shown in 50 solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.
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Visual arts
Giso Westing's painting developed from an almost monochrome reduction in his early works to increasingly liveliness in color and form to a powerful painting style that illustrates his central thought that the representational and the landscape always shimmer through in the abstract and like the reality that surrounds us Visible remains ambiguous. Consequently, all of his pictures are entitled “Untitled”. In his most recent works, words painted into the pictures appear, lending what is apparently visible an irritating and disturbing thoughtfulness. Since 2009 a renewed turn to informal structures, such as stain paintings and ductus painting in differentiated color values.
Fonts
- Lienhard von Monkiewitsch , Reinhard Scheibe , Giso Westing (eds.): Ludwig Zerull . Mediator, designer, chronicler, bon vivant , overall production: ArtnetworX GmbH, Hanover, 2012
literature
- Catalog Giovane pittura d'Europa , ED. Electa 1991, edited by Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto , ISBN 88-435-3436-X
- Dieter Ronte, Giso Westing , Volume 39 Contemporary Art from Lower Saxony, 1991, Verlag Th. Schäfer Hannover ISBN 3-88746-277-7
- Richard Nöbel, Giso Westing - Leben und Werk , Nonnompress 1992, ISBN 3-92595-711-1
- Catalog Giso Westing , Kunsthalle Recklinghause 1995, with texts by Lothar Romain and Ferdinand Ullrich, ISBN 3-929040-19-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Giso Westing in the catalog of the German National Library
- Video on YouTube with a selection of text images by Giso Westing
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibition participations Westing, Giso (accessed on April 6, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Westing, Giso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |