Norbert Kiby
October 17 to December 2, 2011: Norbert Kiby, Painting
View into the hallway
The attic floor has been transformed. You walk through lucid clouds of color that flow from the paintings. At times, lightning flashes through these fleeting formations. One cannot escape the forms, colors and figures and should generously, albeit hesitantly at first, dispense with the picture titles, as the pictorial actions communicate themselves in all cheerfulness and selflessness. Viewing pictures that are fun.
Left: Departure, acrylic on nettle, 140x110 cm, 2009
Right: Spring storm, acrylic on nettle, 140x110 cm, 2009
What drives these two powerful men out into nature? It doesn't matter! Here they are happily moving forward and working - wherever and whatever. The breathless brushstrokes - because speed is everything - lend the figures dynamism and confidence. What might they be thinking? What is their goal? Look and listen! They tell us.
Welcome Spring, acrylic on nettle, 150x130 cm (detail), 2005
Here it is no longer possible without onomatopoeia. The speech bubble assures the viewer of the artist's narrative ambitions. Every picture contains this credo.
Today must be my lucky day, acrylic on nettle, 130x120 cm, 2002
In the tube, acrylic on nettle, 115x100 cm, 2001
Showcases in the entrance area
Steatite objects by Christa M. Lotz are on display in the three showcases.
Vita
- Born in 1953.
- 1976-1980 studied at the State Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe.
- 1992 and 1994 working scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation and graduate scholarship from the Karlsruhe Art Academy.
- 1998 Lukas Cranach Main Prize of the City of Kronach.
- Lives and works in Karlsruhe and Berlin.