Yvelle Gabriel

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Yvelle Gabriel (* 19th January 1969 as Boris Alexander Kehl in Mainz ) is a German glass artist , visual artist , graphic artist and performance artist .

Life

Gabriel grew up in Rheinhessen , attended high school at St. Catherine's in Oppenheim and was 1990 lithographer and graphic artist before the Mainzer Theater couched . In 1991 he founded his first artistic graphics studio, in 1993 the DNK advertising agency and in 1999 as managing partner the DNK + W advertising agency on the Kupferberg in Mainz. After a moving experience, he sold his agency shares and in 2001 took up his passion as a freelance artist Yvelle. From 2003 to 2014 he worked under his artist and religious name "Yvelle von Alzheim", which is registered in his passport. After years of residence in Lanzarote, New Zealand and the Vulkaneifel, Gabriel lives with his family in a courtyard on the Lahn and commutes between his studios in Israel, the Derix glass workshops in Taunusstein and his hometown Mainz .

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Characteristic of Gabriel's art, which moves between figuration and abstraction , is the use of strong primary colors in an expressive painting gesture with narrative and symbolic set pieces. In the beginning, Gabriel combined expressive performance art (including Festspielhaus Worms, Degussa Innovation Award in Düsseldorf) with expressive paintings on canvas in order to subsequently expand his artistic techniques. In 2003 he created oversized linocuts for the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. In 2008 his typometamorphosis "The Metamorphosis" was nominated by the German Kafka Society and shown over several years in various exhibitions " Kafka in contemporary art" in Eastern Europe. For the 50th year of Hermann Hesse's death , he designed the solo exhibition of 50 typometamorphoses and calligraphies from the most important works of the German writer for the Hesse Museum in Calw .

Interreligious total work of art for the new synagogue of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Israel, Yvelle Gabriel 2018

In 2012 Gabriel discovered his love for glass art . With his quite monumental stained glass , he has designed a. a. 2012 the room of silence in the children's hospice Bärenherz in Wiesbaden, 2014 the foyer of the children's hospice Sterntaler, 2015 the catholic chapel for singing the sun in the new Caritas center in Mannheim as well as many other artistic works nationwide in hospices , chapels and rooms of silence . A particular concern of the artist, which is reflected in his work, is interreligious dialogue and reconciliation . From 2011 to 2018, Gabriel worked intensively on the realization of his German-Israeli art of reconciliation, a conceptually sacred total work of art in the new synagogue of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Israel, which was presented on May 17, 2018 with 20 rabbis and a nationwide TV report by ZDF Heute- Journals was inaugurated. Also in May 2018, his monumental wall relief in the Mainz city library was inaugurated by the Department of Culture of the City of Mainz.In December 2018, the inauguration of the world's first glass triptych with the theological theme of "Cosmic Christ" in the Catholic Chapel of the Redeemer in the Diocese of Mainz , which Gabriel officially rehabilitated for Teilhard de Chardin dedicated by the papal cultural council.

Mystical spheres of light in the new underground cemetery in Israel, Yvelle Gabriel 2019

In 2019 Gabriel created ten sacred monumental light objects for the so far unique underground cemetery HarHamenuchot, 50 meters deep under the Israeli "Mountain of the Resting". Its light spheres, which are over 3 meters in size, are based on a further development of the platonic body dodecahedron : two interconnected spheres made of light metal and cathedral glass collapse to form a mystical overall composition of light and color that symbolically brings the aura of the solar plasma into the huge catacombs for the artist . On October 30, 2019, the sacred art objects of Gabriel were inaugurated by the two leading chief rabbis of the State of Israel, accompanied by the German ambassador Dr. Susanne Wasum-Rainer and the ARD Tagesschau film team . The ARD film contribution was broadcast nationwide several times.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNK + W Werbeagentur GmbH, Mainz - HRB 7066 Mainz District Court. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ A shining symbol for German-Israeli friendship. May 26, 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Culture against right. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  4. ^ Degussa Innovation Award 2001 - Video Dailymotion. June 27, 2015, accessed July 17, 2018 .
  5. ^ Bernstein Verlag: Kafka in contemporary art. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw: Yvelle of Alzheim shows "Typometamorphosen" | Hermann Hesse. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Healing Art - Interview with the glass artist Yvelle Gabriel | Sein.de . In: Sein.de . August 1, 2013 ( sein.de [accessed July 17, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Bärenherz Children's Hospice: Room of Silence. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Sterntaler Children's Hospice in Dudenhofen expanded: A day like no other | Home | Matter of the heart . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on July 17, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Canticle of the sun captured in glass. January 4, 2017, accessed on July 17, 2018 (German).
  11. Jump over trenches with art . ( zdf.de [accessed on July 17, 2018]).
  12. ↑ VRM GmbH & Co. KG: Mainz artist Yvelle Gabriel designs the windows of a synagogue in Israel. ( Allgemeine-zeitung.de [accessed on July 17, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Wormer Allgemeine Zeitung, "Hospice must be in the middle". Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  14. ^ Art from Germany for the mega-cemetery in Jerusalem. In: Deutsche Welle. Deutsche Welle, November 2, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 (eng).
  15. ↑ Giant underground cemetery in Jerusalem. In: ARD Tagesschau. ARD, October 30, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 (eng).
personal data
SURNAME Gabriel, Yvelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kehl, Boris Alexander (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass artist, visual artist, graphic artist and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th January 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz