Thomas Kiesewetter

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Thomas Kiesewetter (* 1963 in Kassel ) is a German painter and sculptor .

education

Kiesewetter studied painting at the HdK Berlin from 1988 to 1994 in Berlin . In 1994 he became a master student of Raimund Girke . It was not until around the year 2000 that he found his way of artistic expression in sculpture. From 2005 to 2008 Kiesewetter refined his sculptural works in New York ..

Kiesewetter is influenced by Alexander Calder, African sculpture and Cubism and has been associated with Anthony Caro , David Smith , Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Robert Rauschenberg .

He lives and works in Berlin.

plant

Kiesewetter transfers the deconstructivist building concept to the level of his sculptures. These strengthen the sculptor's status as a hobbyist, who bends sheet metal from the roll into asymmetrical boxes, rivets, varnishes, supports them with wooden stilts and places them on table-like substructures. The classical proportions and the delicacy of the construction look like absurd and non-functional buildings. Thomas Kiesewetter first works with cardboard and paper to determine the shapes of his sculptures, then translates them into sheet metal or bronze and immerses them in powerful colors. The monochrome, concave and convex shapes play with statics and light. His works are reminiscent of the objectivity of constructivism , but clearly show Cubist influences. He creates sculptural assemblages that open up the space and whose rugged shapes contrast with the coloring.

Since around 2017 Kiesewetter has been increasingly concerned with the human figure as the underlying theme of his sculptures.

Works in public spaces and in collections

Exhibitions

  • 2001 Galerie Neu, Berlin
  • 2001 "Artists imagine Architecture" ICA Boston
  • 2003 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
  • 2004 Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles
  • 2008 "Abstract Tendencies" Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2009 Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
  • 2010 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2011 Guest rooms , with Portrait III , a steel sculpture on Tessinerplatz in Zurich
  • 2011 Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin
  • 2012 Gesamtkunstwerk , Saatchi Gallery , Londen,
  • 2013 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2013 “Fugit Amor” Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
  • 2015 "1999" in the Philara Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2017 "Sculptor", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld

literature

  • M. Wellmann: Kunstforum international 206: 2011 (Jan./Febr.) 82s.
  • Thomas Kiesewetter: 360 times in front : (on the occasion of the exhibitions: Thomas Kiesewetter. 360 times in front August 28 - October 9, 2010 at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Thomas Kiesewetter March 12 - April 10, 2010 at Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf) with texts by Georg Imdahl and Friedrich Meschede .
  • Thomas Kiesewetter: Sculptor: (on the occasion of the exhibition: Thomas Kiesewetter. Sculptor. September 9 - October 22, 2017 in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld) with texts by Dominikus Müller and Friedrich Meschede.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ degruyter.com - Article at Nexis, accessed on September 5, 2017 from de Gruyter
  2. ↑ nexis.com -Article in Nexis, accessed on September 7, 2017. The Telegraph of January 5, the 2012th
  3. ↑ nexis.com -Article in Nexis, accessed on September 7, 2017. The New York Times of 19 December of 2003.
  4. ↑ nexis.com article at Nexis, accessed on September 7, 2017 from the Berliner Zeitung on February 22, 2001.
  5. ↑ nexis.com article at Nexis, accessed on September 7, 2017 from Welt on February 10, 2001.
  6. ↑ nexis.com - Article at Nexis, accessed on September 5, 2017 from the star of August 31, 2017.
  7. ↑ nexis.com -Article in Nexis, accessed on September 5, 2017. Rheinische Post of 27 April 2017th
  8. ↑ nexis.com - Article at Nexis, accessed on September 5, 2017 from the Berliner Zeitung on August 31, 2010.
  9. ↑ nexis.com - Article at Nexis, accessed on September 7, 2017 from the Rheinische Post on June 10, 2010.
  10. ^ Thomas Kiesewetter: Jack Tilton Gallery. - Free Online Library. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  11. ^ Grace Glueck: ART IN REVIEW; Thomas Kiesewetter . In: The New York Times . December 19, 2003, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 29, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Kiesewetter, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, sculptor, painter, draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel