Ulysses Belz

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Ulysses Belz (born March 12, 1958 in Mainz ) is a German painter and graphic artist . He developed in 2005 in Paris, the painting of metacognition (Metacognitive painting).

Life

After graduating from Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Mainz in 1976, Ulysses Belz trained as a bookbinder and book restorer in the Schoy workshop in Essen. From 1980 to 1983 he studied at the Paris Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Jean-Marie Granier ( copperplate engraving ) and François Debord ( morphology ). From 1984 to 1988 Ulysses Belz ran a workshop gallery at Odos Tripodon 18 in the old town of Athens . This was followed by periods of life with studios and exhibitions in Frankfurt am Main (1988–1992), Madrid (1992–2000), Riga (2000–2004), Paris (2004–2010), Bad Arolsen (2010–2015). Ulysses Belz lives and works in Burgrain / Upper Bavaria.

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The osmosis between art and science is a basic feature in all phases of Ulysses Belz's work.

The preoccupation with the pre-Socratics is reflected in the main graphic work: "Eternity is a playing child on the throne" / Contributions by scientists and artists to the present of pre-Socratic thought, 69 etchings by Ulysses Belz with texts by Dietmar Kamper , Oliver Primavesi , Otto E. Rössler , Botho Strauss and Siegfried Zielinski , Vol I / II, edition 40 self-published, Bonn / Leipzig 2000. Copies of the edition are in important libraries in Germany, Austria and the USA.

In collaboration with the French philosopher and consciousness researcher Joëlle Proust, Ulysses Belz developed metacognitive painting from 2005 in his studio in Paris at 41 rue Pajol. In this painterly style, the fields of consciousness in painting are expanded to include those areas from which one's own cognition is controlled and accompanied. This sub-personal control is in turn thematized artistically. Joëlle Proust describes metacognitive painting as a “revolutionary project of painting the forms of thought”.

The still young art historical assessment of metacognitive painting speaks of an "approach that does not understand conscious processes in the action and control of artistic activity as an obstacle or crisis of the author, but as the actual theme of the work of art". In a catalog for the exhibition “Floating States” published in Munich in 2018, metacognitive painting is welcomed as a “phenomenon of reality pluralism” .

As a graphic artist, Ulysses Belz specializes in the technique of classic copper engraving, which he uses within a current aesthetic (not historicizing).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1987: “Interactions”, Goethe-Institut Athens, Athens
  • 1989: "Fernsehbilder", Galerie Gres, Frankfurt / M.
  • 1995: “Pinturas”, Seiquer Gallery, Madrid
  • 1999: "Imágenes electrónicas y pintura" Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
  • 2000: "The pre-Socratic", Galerie Druck & Buch, Tübingen
  • 2002: "Painting" Latvian Museum of Foreign Art , Riga
  • 2003: "Painting", Gunzenhauser Gallery, Munich
  • 2005: "New Painting", Gunzenhauser Gallery, Munich
  • 2006: “Painting of the Present. Back to the figure “ Hypo-Kunsthalle , Munich (group exhibition with George Condo, Maria Lassnig, Peter Doig, Neo Rauch and others)
  • 2007: "Transmitter", mbf-kunstprojekte, Freiburg
  • 2007: "Leve de Schilderkunst", Kunsthal Rotterdam , Rotterdam (group exhibition)
  • 2009: "Metacognitive Painting", mbf-kunstprojekte, Munich
  • 2010: “Aires cérébrales”, Espace Immanence, Paris
  • 2012: "Euphoria", Welda Castle, Warburg-Welda
  • 2012: "Art Collectors", Senger Bamberg Fine Paintings, Bamberg
  • 2012: "Aura", Braun-Falco Gallery, Munich
  • 2014: "art @ science. Three positions in the aesthetics of science ", Ulysses Belz, Ingrid Hermentin , Norbert Pümpel ., Marburger Kunstverein , with catalog (edited by Harald Kimpel , curator of the exhibition)
  • 2015 “Private Collection”, Galerie Stefan Bartsch, Munich
  • 2018 "Ulysses Belz / Floating States", Heldenreizer Contemporary, Munich
  • 2020 “Lineare Gegenwart”, copperplate engravings by Ulysses Belz, Heldenreizer Contemporary, Munich

Articles / essays

  • On the future of figuration after figuration. (Applecake Manifesto) , "reiter in dresden / Kulturjournal" No. 6, p. 27, 1990, ISSN 0863-4580
  • Meta-Muster , art @ science, Harald Kimpel (ed.), Kunstverein Marburg, Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89445-501-9
  • Lady Wirrwarr - Atelier thoughts for the 100th birthday of Maria Lassnig , LETTRE International No. 125, 2019, pp. 104–106, ISSN 0945-5167
  • Don't call it archaic. Why Burin Engraving must be Reinvented , Grabado y Edición (Spanish / English) No. 64, 2019, pp. 58-68, ISSN 1886-2306
  • The Brain Researcher in Art , JITTER Magazine for Art and Visual Culture, September 28, 2019, The Brain Researcher in the Art (accessed November 12, 2019)
  • Kunst einer Zwischenzeit / Contemporary Art , LETTRE International No. 127, 2019, p. 141, ISSN 1886-2306
  • Dürer's data cloud , LETTRE International No. 129, 2020, pp. 90-94, ISSN 1886-2306

literature

  • Harald Kimpel: With your back to the wall. Ulysses Belz paints the end of painting , exhibition catalog Ulysses Belz, Latvian Museum of Foreign Art, Riga 2002
  • Marcus Braun-Falco: Course on New Spaces , Metacognitive Painting / Ulysses Belz, Freiburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-00-024980-8
  • Joëlle Proust: The uncertain in painting , art @ science, Harald Kimpel (ed.), Kunstverein Marburg, Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89445-501-9
  • Robert Bauernfeind: Ulysses Belz 'Floating States and the tradition of cloud painting , Floating States / Ulysses Belz, Marcus Trautner (ed.), Heldenreizer Contemporary, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819524-1-4
  • Joëlle Proust: wolken / limit / ambassador - Ulysses Belz and his revolutionary project of painting the forms of thought , Floating States / Ulysses Belz, Marcus Trautner (ed.), Heldenreizer Contemporary, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819524-1-4

Collections

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus Braun-Falco (Ed.): Ulysses Belz, Metacognitive Painting, MBF Kunstprojekte, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024980-8
  2. ^ Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, call number 51Ca / 80495 / location magazine / no lending; Landesbibliothek Coburg, call number: L.sel.587, second call number: F2001-3, consultation only in the reading room
  3. ^ University library of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, call number: 79822-C, usable in the reading room
  4. ^ Columbia University NY, Butler Library, 6th Fl.East (Non-Circulating) BOOKART NC251.B41 2000 B41
  5. ↑ J. Proust in: Trautner (Ed.), Bauernfeind, Proust: Floating States / Ulysses Belz, exhibition catalog, German, English, Munich 2018 ISBN 978-3-9819524-2-1 , p. 40
  6. ↑ R. Bauernfeind in: Trautner (Ed.), Bauernfeind, Proust: Floating States / Ulysses Belz, exhibition catalog, German, English, Munich 2018 ISBN 978-3-9819524-2-1 , p. 30
personal data
SURNAME Belz, Ulysses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz