Ralph Tepel

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Ralph Tepel, self-portrait 2014

Ralph Tepel (* 1964 in Celle ) is a German artist who deals with photography , painting , sculpture and sound art projects.

Life

Tepel already dealt with artistic subjects in his youth, painting, drawing and creating his first plastic works and sculptures. After graduating from the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium , from 1983 he studied not only Protestant theology but also design and art in Wuppertal , Heidelberg and Bonn . From 1995 to 1997 he was a master student of Alfons Engling, who had returned to Cologne from São Paulo .

In 1995 he met Helmut Tollmann in Cologne , with whom he has a deep friendship and with whom he worked as an assistant from 1998 to 2006. The multilayer technique developed by Helmut Tollmann, with the combination of printing and photography , fascinated him very much and has an impact on his work today.

Since 2018 he has been the Artistic Director of the Museum of Japan and Contemporary Art - Mitsuko Castle.

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As an artistic photographer, Ralph Tepel was a member of the American Society of Picture Professionals and the Adobe Photographers Directory for several years. His work was published today in Volume 1 of Artistic Photography. In 2007 and 2008 Ralph Tepel lived and worked in Calgary , Alberta . A wealth of new photographic works was created there. The exhibition and book project “inspired by music” found its first climax in Calgary: photographs of ensembles from the genres of classical , jazz and world music , which were taken over more than a decade.

Since Ralph Tepel had presented a series of paintings about the “Faces of the Basic Law” in the years 2004–2006, Christian Kiefer made him the music and art project “Of Great and Mortal Men” by J. Matthew Gerken, Christian Kiefer and Jefferson Pitcher invited over the 44 presidents of the USA and contributed the picture “ Richard Nixon ”.

After moving the studio to Solingen , the search for new forms of expression began under the constant leitmotif of freedom . The political accents in his painting and sculpture focused on the topic of the destruction of freedom through digitization and economization. These works were presented in the Kornelius Gallery in early 2015.

The death of his father and his own serious accident in 2014 marked a profound change in his life and work. He dealt intensively with the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and found a new visual language that brought him to the "Mythspiel" based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Sprachspiel" and Roland Barthe's "Myths of Everyday Life". In 2015, Peripheral Arteries published an interview with a large photo series. Playing with information and layers of images led him to his new "playground", the erasure of information through overlay.

Exhibitions

  • 2006 icons of humanity, HYPE Gallery, Berlin
  • 2006 ralph tepel photographs, exhibition, Sani
  • 2005 soul landscapes, exhibition, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 2007 art of object, Calgary, Canada
  • 2008 work for "of great and mortal men", USA
  • 2008 inspired by music, Calgary
  • 2009 5th Street Gallery, Dayton, Oio, USA
  • 2009 Art meets Carnival, Cologne
  • 2010 gallery sanssouci, fluidum, Solingen
  • 2010 Nature and people, St. Andreasberg
  • 2010 everything paletti, Solingen
  • 2014 Fall Colors, Galerie Rheinland, Solingen
  • 2014 10. Paths to Simplicity, Mitsuko Castle, Thürkow
  • 2015 Thoughts are free, Kornelius Gallery, Kornelimünster
  • 2015 open studio exhibition: “entire life on a computer chip”, culture morning, Solingen
  • 2015 producer, assistant editor and composer "panta rei" by Helmut Tollmann, KULT, Bedbug
  • 2015 Paths to Simplicity 11 MUGA (Self-forgetting) - 第 11 回 簡 素 へ の 彷徨 展, group exhibition, Mitsuki Castle, Todendorf
  • 2015 Ralph Tepel: myth games- the encounter, solo exhibition, k1-gallery, Solingen
  • 2015 Literature illuminated- four installations at Festival of Light 2015, solo exhibition at the Bachtor-Centrum, Solingen
  • 2015 KUNST is always a gift - group Exhibition, k1 gallery, Solingen
  • 2016 Ralph Tepel: West-Eastern Divan, solo exhibition, k1-gallery, Solingen
  • 2016 Paths to Simplicity 12 Toki no Nagare - Flowing Time, group exhibition, Mitsuko Castle, Todendorf
  • 2017 Art and Contemporary Art, 80 Galerie, group exhibition, Berlin, Germany
  • 2017 Paths to Simplicity 13 Fragility of Existence, group exhibition, Mitsuko Castle, Todendorf
  • 2017 Ralph Tepel - painting, sculpture, installations, solo exhibition, gallery dr. jochim, Celle
  • 2017 Ralph Tepel - sculptures, solo exhibition, k1 gallery, Solingen
  • 2018 Paths to Simplicity 14 - 形而上 the metaphysical: that of the formless, group exhibition, Mitsuko Castle, Todendorf
  • 2018 Schlosspark Stammheim Art 2018, group exhibition, Cologne
  • 2018/2019 Of lights and will-o'-the-wisps, solo light and land art installation, Todendorf
  • 2019 cubes & boxes, group exhibition, Düsseldorf
  • 2019 Paths to Simplicity 15 - Yugen, group exhibition, Mitsuko Castle, Todendorf
  • 2019/2020 Of lights and will-o'-the-wisps II, solo light and land art installation, Todendorf

literature

  • Ralph Tepel, inspired by music, catalog, Calgary 2008
  • Artistic Photography Today Volume 1, ed. Christoph Kubiciel. ars momentum Kunstverlag, Witten, 2007
  • Catalog Natur und Mensch, Bergstadt St. Andreasberg 2010, St. Andreasberg
  • Ralph Tepel, Fluidum Catalog, Solingen, 2010
  • Ralph Tepel, West-Eastern Divan, exhibition 2016, k1 gallery, Solingen 2015
  • Ralph Tepel, no liberty island, works from 2009 - 2015, k1 editions, Solingen, Cologne, Ankara, 2017
  • Ralph Tepel, painting, sculptures, installation, catalog, gallery dr. jochim, Celle, k1 editions Cologne, Solingen, Ankara, 2017
  • Catalog Paths to Simplicity 14, published by DJFK eV 2018
  • Catalog Schlosspark Stammheim Art 2018, Cologne, publisher KRR 2018
  • Catalog Paths to Simplicity 15, published by DJFK eV 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artistic Photography Today, Volume 1, ars momentum Kunstverlag, Witten 2007
personal data
SURNAME Tepel, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle