Matthias Dämpfle and Elisabeth Bereznicki
January 26 to March 29, 2003: Sculptures and paintingsExhibition opening on Sunday, January 26, 11 am. Dr. Brigitte von Savigny will speak.
At the beginning of the new year, the Bad Krozingen Heart Center has a surprise in store. Sculptures by Matthias Dämpfle are presented in exciting contrast with paintings by Elisabeth Bereznicki. Her compositions arranged in lacquer and oil on Plexiglas revolve around the motif of the cup: espresso cup, cappuccino cup, tea bowl. Sometimes the cup combinations sink into well-ordered color patterns, sometimes they spread freely across the picture surface, circling in and around themselves, so to speak. Born in Warsaw in 1953, the artist graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She has lived and worked in Freiburg since 1989.
Matthias Dämpfle, born in 1961, works as a freelance sculptor in Freiburg. After training as a stonemason and sculptor in Freiburg, he moved to the Karlsruhe Academy in 1982 to study under Professor Wilhelm Loth, among others. For Dämpfle, the shadow line between the 2nd and 3rd dimension is significant. As a sculptor, he creates space, which he designs graphically. Some of his chair, block and staircase objects feature ornamentally designed surfaces that appear almost chiseled in the manner of the old masters. He also likes to describe himself as an "impeded draughtsman who fell into sculpture". The painting on the surface presents the cup as a sculpture and suggests spatiality. The sculpture in space, on the other hand, proves to be a carrier of graphic formations. In this artistic field of tension, the viewer is stimulated to new perceptual experiences.
Elisabeth Bereznicki: o.T., lacquer, oil on panel, 50x50 cm, 2002
Matthias Dämpfle: 4-piece house block, Impala granite, 60x50x50 cm, 1994
Matthias Dämpfle unloading his sculptures.
Self-portrait, concrete cast, 2003
Curator Beate Hill-Kalusche during the hanging of Elisabeth Bereznicki's works.
The artist and the artist are sitting on the "concrete heads" by Matthias Dämpfle in the entrance hall. The engraving is a self-portrait (right) and the portrait of Elisabeth Bereznicki. 65x92x39 cm, 2003
On the wall, the artist's filigree color stele: o.T., oil on acrylic glass, 210x3x8.5 cm, 2001
Elisabeth Bereznicki: o.T., oil on acrylic glass, 150x100 cm, 2002
In addition to the preferred mug motif, Bereznicki also works photorealistic figures into color ornament patterns or figurative compositions.
One of the three smaller concrete works by Matthias Dämpfle in the display case in the entrance hall, n.d., 20x14x12 cm, 2002
Dr. Brigitte von Savigny during her opening speech. On the right Mr. Sahner and on the left the cellist Juris Teichmanis, who played pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach.
What meaning is attributed to the cup? How does the artist organize her compositions? The lecturer offered explanations for these and other questions. The many interested visitors set off with these "visual aids" to form their own opinions.
Elisabeth Bereznicki: o.T., lacquer, oil on acrylic glass, 48x48 cm, 2002