Zoyt
Zoyt , bourgeois Hans-Peter Conen , (born December 17, 1957 in Vancouver , Canada ) is a contemporary German-Canadian wood sculptor .
Life
Zoyt lived in Vancouver until he was five , after which he moved with his parents and three sisters to Rheinhausen near Duisburg . In 1968 the family finally moved to Ettlingen near Karlsruhe , where Zoyt attended secondary school. After graduating from secondary school , he went to the USA for a year as an exchange student in 1975 , then attended the business school in Ettlingen and graduated from high school in 1979. In 1981, Zoyt began studying philosophy at the University of Hamburg. Since 1982 he has called himself Zoyt, the first letter standing for procreation, the last letter for death, the inserted OY means, according to the artist, “the beginning of proper time and the realization of an existence through artistic work”. Zoyt is self-taught, but sought contact with other artists at an early age. He mentions Uwe Lindau as his "painter's father", who enabled him to take part in a first group exhibition in the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in 1980 . In 1983 he joined the underground poet and rock musician Kiev Stingl in Hamburg ; Through the mediation of the painter Annette Schröter , he was able to learn the basic techniques of wood carving from the sculptor Trak Wendisch at Burg Goldbeck (Art and Culture Funding Association Land-Stadt-Wittstock eV) in Brandenburg in 1990 . Zoyt has lived and worked in Babitz, a district of Wittstock / Dosse , Brandenburg, since 1997 .
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Zoyt makes sculptures, high reliefs, drawings and pictures. He was best known for his sculptures , which he saws, rasps, beats and grinds from local woods such as poplar and linden , but also from hardwoods such as beech , oak or cherry , and which he partially accentuates with paint. In doing so, Zoyt has developed his very own design language, which makes his figures unmistakable. He sees his artistic starting point in the tradition of Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner and the early Aristide Maillol . On the one hand, Zoyt's figures are concrete and anatomically precise, on the other hand he plays with the proportions and thereby gives them immediacy and a fantastic remoteness at the same time. Again and again Zoyt combines his figures into tableaus that tell simple, almost archaic stories, for example about "sudden fatigue" or about a "woman who meets a man with a dog". Zoyt always works on several sculptures at the same time, some of them over a period of several years. His largest sculpture to date is the eight-meter-high group of three " Mimir wells", cast in bronze , which has stood in front of the Alstertal shopping center in Hamburg since 2006 .
Exhibitions
- 1986 Gallery Prospect , Hamburg
- 1989 “Degalla” , Galerie Abriss , Hamburg
- 1993 Gallery Tammen / Busch , Berlin
- 1995 Levy Gallery , Hamburg
- 1997 Commeter Gallery , Hamburg
- 1998 Priv-Art Museum , Hamburg
- 1999 Sculpture Box , Art Cologne, Cologne
- 2001 “Roses for Jerusalem” , Westwerk, Hamburg
- 2005 Gallery Levy , Hamburg
- 2010 Gallery Commeter , Hamburg
Awards
- 1988 working grant for visual artists , Hamburg.
literature
- "Zoyt - Skulpturen - Sculptures" , exhibition catalog, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2005
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zoyt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Conen, Hans-Peter (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Canadian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th December 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver , Canada |