Harald Kröner
July 14 to August 23, 2013: Harald Kröner, works on paperKröner's works cannot be reduced to a common denominator. Or are they? This uncertain balancing act creates fascination. Objects, installations or works on paper cannot be assigned to a genre or an art form. This increases the fascination. Movement unfolds in all his works - even if they are (paradoxically) static. So there is a common denominator: movement in light and in motionlessness.
Stacks, 20.5.2010, ink brush, pen, transparent cut, note paper, 21x15,5 cm, 2005-2010
Wall pieces, wall piece #1, paper, lacquer paper, cuts, felt, folding, 94x52x13 cm, 2009
Stacks, 4.10.2005, ink brush, pen, tracing paper cut, note paper, 2005-2010
day nursery and day care center weierhof karlsruhe, "rainbow box", approx. 96 movable color discs c, 720x22x22 cm, 2010 - competition 2009 Hochbauamt Karlsruhe
The artist Harald Kröner (left) in conversation with visitors together with the philosopher Dr. Franz Littmann, who gave the opening speech.
Three ink collages from the years 2010, 2011 and 1997 (from left to right)
The picture carriers and also the small-scale set pieces contradict the "eye of the camera". They stand on their own in the field of tension of certain proportions that are assigned to them in the interplay of differently designed pieces of paper. The collage becomes "real" when you stand in front of it. Then the formats of the pictorial motifs become apparent. You think you have a kind of magic box in front of you, as you are tempted to rearrange the parts of the picture in order to form your own pattern. The motifs of many of the works, whether collages or drawings, are placed on notepads or lined paper, as if they only wanted to stay here temporarily. This invites the viewer to redraw the coordinates between the pictorial symbols.
Vita
- Born in 1962.
- 1984-1990 Studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy under Rudolf Schoofs.
- 1994 Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation.
- 2002-2003 Scholarship at the Bartels Fondation, Basel.
- 2005 Move to Paris.
- Studied at the Cité Internationale des Arts until 2006.