Martin Gerwers

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Martin Gerwers (born July 4, 1963 in Velen ) is a German artist . He lives in Düsseldorf .

Education

Gerwers studied visual communication at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences between 1984 and 1989 and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1989 to 1992 . He is a master student of Jan Dibbets .

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In his non-representational painting and with his photographic works, Gerwers examines questions of the viewer's perception and reassurance in space, furthermore, in the paintings, of the juxtaposition of color surfaces and graphically linear structures. After experimentally open, sometimes organic-looking painterly formulations from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s, a grid of different colored lines lay over a monochrome light-colored background. In other groups of works that started later, the lines retreat to the edge of the picture as narrow strips. Since the mid-1990s in particular, larger monochrome surfaces have been used that are subdivided or closed off by individual vertical stripes of color, and horizontal lines at the bottom or top of the picture with which the verticals intersect. As a result of masking or sanding down the colored lines, the impression of shadow gaps is created . The paintings act as an organic material counterpart.

Since the end of the 1980s, the "photo sandwiches" have also been created, in which the art objects are cut out of mostly own photographs of museum rooms and the studio and other things, evoking empty spaces or a reflective nesting of the space .

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1989 Anna Blume Gallery, Aachen;
  • 1993/1994/1997 Galerie Konrad Fischer, Cologne
  • 19967199 Tschudi Gallery , Glarus
  • 1999/2003 Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
  • 2002 Guardini Foundation, Berlin
  • 2004 Design Planets Maebashi, Japan
  • 2004 guest studio Van de nieuwe Dingen, Tilburg, Holland
  • 2005 Tschudi Gallery, Zuoz-CH
  • 2007 Concept Space Shibukawa, Japan
  • 2008 Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
  • 2009 Galerie De Rijk, The Hague
  • 2010 Centraltrak, UT Dallas, TX
  • 2012 Gallery Slewe, Amsterdam
  • 2013 Gemeentemuseum The Hague
  • 2015 Motion , Leopold-Hoesch-Museum , Düren

Group exhibitions

  • 1988 "The other ten", Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
  • 1991 New Aachen Art Association
  • 1996/1997 Krefeld Art Museum, Ulmer Museum
  • 1997 color, painting from the 90s, Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 1999 “Walls”, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1999 “Primary Structures”, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
  • 2002 "Minimalism and After" Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
  • 2003 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, collection of the museum
  • 2003 The Daimler Chrysler Collection, ZKM Karlsruhe
  • 2003/2004 The Daimler Chrysler Collection, "On the Edge", The Detroit Institute of Arts
  • 2008 Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
  • 2009 Lafrenz Collection , Museum Wiesbaden
  • 2011 Large Art Exhibition NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (also 2012)
  • 2012 Concept Space, Shibukawa, Japan
  • 2012 Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

literature

  • 1996 S. Egenhofer, Kat ars viva 96/97, pp. 25-27
  • 1997 Erich Franz, Kat color painting of the 90s
  • 2002 Frederike Nymphius, Kat DaimlerChrysler, Minimalism and After
  • 2006 Rudi Fuchs, Georg Imdahl , catalog works 1989–2005

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Gerwers, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Velen