Nabo Gass

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Portrait of Nabo Gaß 2013

Nabo Gaß (born August 25, 1954 in Ebingen ) is a German glass artist and painter .

Life

In 1968 Gaß left the Swabian Alb to continue his school career at the Schloss Salem boarding school. In 1973, after leaving school, the opportunity arose to travel through southern Europe for several months . Very impressed by Italian cultural monuments , he brought home the desire to become a glass painter . In 1976 he successfully passed the journeyman's examination for glass painters in Taunusstein . In 1978/79, after qualifying as a craftsman, continued artistic training at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1980/81 he worked as a media pedagogue at the municipal youth welfare office in Wiesbaden and at the same time gave courses as a lecturer in drawing and painting at the Wiesbaden Free Art School until 1988. In 1983/84 Nabo Gaß directed the project - artists in cultural work - on behalf of the Bonner Kunstfonds eV In 1984 he married Gabi Bucher and his daughter Lisa Violetta is born. In 1986 he was elected to the federal board of the professional association BGBK (Federal Association of Trade Union Associations of Visual Artists) in the art union and contributed to the creation of IG Medien . In 1986 he started working with glass again. In his Uferatelier on the Rhine in Wiesbaden, he has been designing and producing transparent art for the glass walls of modern architecture and art projects ever since.

plant

Balance from Nabo Gaß

Nabo Gaß 'free works are mostly multilayer glass pictures. The stained glass lies between differently sand-blasted panes. Picture themes can thus overlap and create an analogy to complex trains of thought. Nabo Gaß draws the subjects for the glass adventure worlds from everyday life. The art and architecture historian Dr. In the magazine SchottSolutions 2007, Hans-Peter Schwanke describes the motifs "as partly virtuoso expressive forms that oscillate between representationalism and abstraction."

Nabo Gaß has been designing the facades of glass industrial buildings since 2000.

Works in public space (selection)

High-bay warehouse with solar facade from Nabo Gaß

technology

In order to be able to implement his ideas in glass, Nabo Gaß has developed new glass design techniques: in 1989 a photographic sandblasting technique, in 1994 painting with colored glass powder. In 2000 he received the Glasstec Düsseldorf innovation award for his patented glass splitter technology for designing glass facades in connection with photovoltaics. In 2011/12, a glass high-bay warehouse was built according to his design, which is self-supporting in terms of energy. The folded solar membrane he designed made of photovoltaic modules and crash glass generates such a high level of energy efficiency that the building is certified gold by the DGNB (German Society for Sustainable Building).

Quotes

“No other material allows so skillfully and sensitively to realize what we commonly understand by ambivalence. Glass is not only transparent, enables perspective and vision, it also connects different levels and visualises the complexity and diversity of life. ”Nabo Gaß, 2008

"The traditional panel painting is a closed world in itself. It is an independent reality. The glass painting seeks to confront its surroundings. It is not able to seal itself off. It allows views through, places itself between the viewer and the through the image visible background. It becomes one with its surroundings. " Nabo Gass, 2010

Receptions

Fly by Nabo Gass / 193 × 193 cm / 2013

“The convincing power of Nabo Gaß's work manifests itself in the symbiosis that glass and painting enter into. The previous terms in art literature no longer apply here. What we see in his works are neither paintings transferred onto glass, nor is it painted glass. Rather, it's painting with glass. A new quality in art emerges here. ”Andreas Greulich, gallery owner and art historian

“The works of Nabo Gaß are sophistic parables of being. The superficial and the profound are closely related to one another with changing emphases and interpretational changes of direction. ”“ His works reach beyond the boundaries of the phenomenologically comprehensible and are an attempt to get hold of the duality of life and to use the artistic medium of glass to penetrate areas that must remain hidden from the common panel painter. ”Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz, journalist and art historian

“The glass works of art by Nabo Gaß offer rich worlds of experience. The core of his very specific contribution to contemporary glass art consists of a plea for differentiated approaches. Gaß endeavors not to lose sight of the clear, at the same time critical view of the essentials as well as the dialogue about it. " Hans-Peter Schwanke, art and architecture historian

Prices

on tour by Nabo Gass / stainless steel and glass / 178 × 63 cm / 2014

In 2014 Nabo Gaß received the “Good Buildings Award” from the BDA Münsterland ( Association of German Architects ). In 2008 Nabo Gaß won 1st prize in the sculpture competition Sculptures in the Park , Mörfelden-Walldorf. In 2000 he received the Glasstec Düsseldorf innovation award for his patented splinter technology for designing glass facades in connection with photovoltaics . In 1999, Nabo Gaß received an award from the Corning Museum of Glass (USA) for his columns on Via Publica in Wiesbaden . In 1983 the Bonner Kunstfonds eV supported one of its cultural-political projects. In 2012, a high-bay warehouse with the solar facade designed by Nabo Gaß in Münsterland was awarded the architecture prize of the Deutsche Pfandbriefbank Foundation.

Important exhibitions

  • 2018 Chamber of Crafts Wiesbaden
  • 2017 Mainzer Kunst Gallery
  • 2016 art Karlsruhe
  • 2014 One artist Show, Art Karlsruhe / Galerie Rother / Winther
  • 2014 Coburg Glass Prize / The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass
  • 2014 Glasmuseet Ebeltoft: BODYTALK / 53 VIEWS ON BODY, SEX AND GENDER
  • 2014 Kulturbahnhof Kassel / Art and Architecture
  • 2013 Rother Gallery
  • 2012 Mainzer Kunst gallery
  • 2011 Gallery SKLO (South Korea)
  • 2010 Rother Gallery
  • 2009 Town Hall, Mörfelden
  • 2008 Sculptures in the Park, Mörfelden
  • 2008 Art Garden Gallery, Aarwangen (Switzerland)
  • 2007 Kruisgang Roermond (Netherlands)
  • 2007 Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld
  • 2006 azahart, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
  • 2006 Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld
  • 2005 Glasrijk Tubbergen (Netherlands)
  • 2004 Burgau Düren Castle
  • 2003 Glasrijk Tubbergen (Netherlands)
  • 2003 Gallery Hedy Ernst, Aarwangen (Switzerland)
  • 2003 Municipal Gallery Lörrach
  • 2002 Nabo Gaß à la Sorbonne, Paris (France)
  • 2000 Glass 2000 - Immenhausen Glass Museum
  • 2000 German Museum for Glass Painting, Linnich

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Vernissage, 2006, p. 48
  2. ↑ In: Nabo Gaß à la Sorbonne, 2002, p. 17
  3. ↑ In: SchottSolutions, 2007, p. 38
  4. ↑ Frommes Terrain - Award for good buildings in Münster BauNetz, accessed on October 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gass, Nabo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebingen