Works
Ruprecht von Kaufmann｜MANIFEST｜2023｜40 x 40cm｜Oil on linoleum Ruprecht von Kaufmann｜LANGE NICHT GESEHEN｜2024｜40 x 40cm｜Oil and collage（Mylar）on linoleum
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Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair
2024.11.7 – 11.10
Shanghai Exhibition Center Booth E11
VIP Preview
11.7 Thu. 13:00-20:00
11.8 Fri. 13:00-20:00
Public Day
11.9 Sat. 11:00-18:00
11.10 Sun. 11:00-18:00
Venue
Shanghai Exhibition Center
Bluerider ART
Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair #E11
Bluerider ART Shanghai · The Bund is honored to once again participate in the 2024 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair. This year’s exhibition will feature brand new and rare works from prominent international and Chinese artists, including several new pieces by German artist Ruprecht von Kaufmann, whose solo exhibition is currently being held at Bluerider ART Shanghai· The Bund. The show will also present rare early tempera landscape works by Chinese artist Cao Jigang, the latest video sculptures by Swiss artist Marck, wall-mounted chromatic installations by German artist Willi Siber, and the latest layered abstract works by renowned German artist Dirk Salz. In addition, the fair will spotlight four post-85 Chinese contemporary artists: Dai Junpeng, with his new interpretation of landscape; Pi Kai, whose works blur the lines between virtual and real, inspired by video games; Chingltu, whose paintings celebrate Mongolian nomadic culture; and Bay Tang Jiaxin, whose paper-cut artworks transcend time and space. This exhibition will bring together a wide array of media and diverse conceptual styles, including painting, installations, and video sculpture, offering collectors and visitors a profound and captivating visual experience.
Bluerider ART founder Elsa Wang remarked: "Bluerider ART is once again participating in ART021, staying true to our spirit of constant evolution, while engaging with Chinese collectors and connoisseurs. German artist Ruprecht von Kaufmann, who has a large following in China, will showcase several new works in various sizes. We are also thrilled to present rare early tempera landscape pieces by Chinese artist Cao Jige. Additionally, four post-85 Chinese contemporary artists, who were selected from this year’s open call, will make their debut at the fair. This exhibition spans three generations, from young to senior artists, bridging the past and the present, East and West, in a dynamic dialogue. We invite everyone to visit our booth E11 to experience this exciting collection."
Exhibiting Artists：
Ruprecht von Kaufmann
Cao Jigang
Marck
Willi Siber
Riera i Aragó
Dirk Salz
Thierry Feuz
Pascal Dombis
Carol Prusa
Angela Glajcar
Christiane Grimm
Dai Junpeng
Pi Kai
Chingltu
Bay Tang Jiaxin
Highlight Works
In his new work ‘LEICHTMATROSE’, German artist Ruprecht von Kaufmann (b. 1974) employs his signature blurred, scratched brushstrokes, which resemble the trembling motion of a camera lens. These dynamic strokes capture the bizarre, fleeting postures of the figures, imbuing the scene with a sense of tension. Set against a striking orange background, the work evokes a dramatic emotional intensity, amplifying the surreal and ephemeral qualities of the moment.
‘Butte’ by Chinese artist Cao Jigang (b. 1955) is a rare early tempera landscape work. Using the soft, jade-like texture of tempera, Cao creates an ethereal sense of abstraction, where the mountain forms are delicately rendered through subtle washes and blending. The result is a quiet, poetic elegance, with the landscape exuding a serene, almost dreamlike quality that invites contemplation.
The work ‘Boat on Golden Sea’ by Spanish artist Riera i Aragón (b. 1954) uses the textures and reflective layers of brass and wood to create a sense of the boat floating above a glowing surface. The piece evokes a serene space between the real and the imaginary, as if the boat is sailing towards a tranquil realm where reality blurs with abstraction.
German artist Dirk Salz (b. 1962) constructs abstract color blocks that reflect their own mirrored images using layers of thickly applied paint and epoxy resin. Through this process, Salz explores the interplay of light and shadow within a layered space, investigating the nature of reflection and the shifting boundaries between reality and illusion. The textured surfaces and reflective layers invite viewers to engage with the work in a dynamic and ever-changing way.
German artist Willi Siber (b. 1949) presents 'Tafelobjekt', a work that plays with shape and color gradients, reflecting dynamic imagery reminiscent of morning dew flowing with a delicate, almost ethereal quality. The piece evokes a sense of movement and vitality, as the changing hues and forms seem to shift and breathe, capturing the fluidity of nature in a quiet, contemplative manner.
Artist
Ruprecht von Kaufmann
(Germany , b. 1974)
Ruprecht von Kaufmann Born in Munich, Germany, and a graduate of the BFA Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, Kaufmann has been associated with prestigious institutions like Berlin University of the Arts, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts. Currently residing and working in Berlin, he is recognized as a prominent visual narrative artist. As an artist focusing on graphic storytelling, Kaufmann explores various facets of human experience through the visual language of contemporary painting. His work showcases critical narratives and parallel realms of reality. Exhibiting in major European cities such as London, Berlin, Stuttgart, Oslo, and New York, his pieces have found a permanent place in renowned collections, including those of the Hort Family in New York, Germany's Sammlung Philara Museum, and the National Bank of Germany in Frankfurt.
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Cao Jigang
(China, b.1955）
Cao Jigang, was graduated from Material Expression Studio of Oil Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, also was a professor at Foundation Year Program Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Currently living, working in Beijing, China, and exhibiting widely in museums and curated exhibitions. Cao Jigang received the Silver Prize in The National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1999. His work is included in public collection including The National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum and New Hall of China International Exhibition Center in Beijing.
Marck
(Switzerland, b. 1964）
Marck (Switzerland, b. 1964), a contemporary Swiss artist renowned for Video Sculpture, currently lives and works in Zurich. Marck's unconventional journey led him to enter a prestigious art school at a young age, only to leave due to the inability to tolerate formal education. Subsequently, he engaged in diverse occupations, including auto dismantling, mechanical electrician, rock singer, and tech installation design. Marck's unique life experiences transcend the imagination of conventional academy-trained artists, manifesting in his self-created video sculpture expressions, addressing societal issues through themes of frames, women, viewing, and interaction. in 2019 he was honored with the International Culture Award by Academia Culturale Internazionale Cartagine in Italy. His works have been showcased internationally and collected by significant museums including La Maison Rouge in Paris, St. Petersburg Contemporary Art Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Istanbul Modern, and the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media.
Willi Siber
(Germany, b. 1949）
Willi Siber (Germany, b. 1949) graduated from the University of Stuttgart, majoring in Art History. He currently lives and works in Upper Swabia, Germany, and is renowned for his abstract installations. Siber states, "My works are always free and independent objects that do not need to be narratively explained." Drawing from the Baroque art and cultural landscape of southern Germany's Upper Swabia, as well as being surrounded by the boundless natural scenery, Siber transforms and distills the Baroque's opulent colors and rhythms, along with his profound connection to nature, into his abstract works. He continuously explores the plasticity of materials, focusing on shape, color, and texture to overturn viewers' visual perceptions. In 2023, he was awarded Germany's most prestigious cultural honor, the "Oberschwäbischer Kunstpreis." In 2019, he held a retrospective exhibition celebrating 40 years of his work at the Villa Rot Museum in Germany, with his works permanently collected by institutions such as the German Bundestag, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Singen, the German Embassy in Argentina, Deutsche Bank, private museums Kunstwerk, and Museum Ritter, among others.
Riera i Aragó
(Spain , b. 1954)
Riera i Aragó (Barcelona 1954) belongs to that generation of artists who in the eighties took up the languages of painting and sculpture, being one of the protagonists of the recovery of the sculptural practice that the avant-garde of the thirties, from of iron, they had begun. After the dematerialization of the work of art that conceptual art entailed, and once pictorial informalism in all its versions had been exhausted, they discovered in the eighties that sculpture unrelated to statuary and naturalism had enormous expressive possibilities and at the same time, he was capable of conversing with the urban scene, the center of modern life. As one of the followers of those avant-garde, in the beginning he maintained a special sensitivity for traditional materials -iron, bronze, wood...-, which, many times, he recovered and recycled to focus all his plastic discourse on the environment of archeology of machinery.
Dirk Salz
(Germany, b. 1962）
Dirk Salz lives and works in Cologne. He was born 1962 in Bochum, Germany, to an artistic family. Through his childhood and high school, he grew up painting, drawing, and studying art history. Salz’ artistic work deals in different manners with human perception or rather with the insufficiency of our mind that shapes this perception. His work can be found in a number of private collections, as well as prominent corporate collections, such as the Akzo Nobel Art Foundation.
Thierry Feuz
(Swiss, b. 1968)
Graduated from Geneva University of Art and Design (Haute École d'Art et de Design), Feuz currently lives and works in Geneva. In his artistic realm, art, science, and philosophy converge as he explores the universal meaning of "existence" and presents unseen realms through his unique painting techniques. Thierry Feuz's works have been collected by significant institutions and museums, including Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Neuchâtel, Singapore Art Foundation, UBS Bank, Saks Fifth Avenue in the United States, as well as the Breeze Crop. and E.Sun Commercial Bank, among other corporate collections.
Pascal Dombis
(Frence, b. 1965)
Pascal Dombis (France, b.1965), a Paris-based visual artist who focuses as much on language as on perception. He is noted for his excessive use of simple algorithmic rules. It was in the early 90s, while finishing his studies in Boston, that he encountered digital artistic tools, prompting a transition from painting to algorithms upon returning to France. Since then, he has created environments marked by excess, repetition and the unpredictability of technological processes, in which he aims to engage the viewers by questioning perception in relation to space, time and language. He develops multi-referential works which play with spatial environments and promote multiple interpretations. Recent exhibitions include Artists & Robots at the Grand Palais in Paris (2018), Cybernetic Consciousness at Itaú cultural in São Paulo (2017) and the Venice Biennale (2013). In 2020, he achieved the creation of a permanent public artwork, Double Connection, nearly one hundred metres long in the centre of Shanghai. In 2022, he got a monographic exhibition Post-Digital at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sorocaba in Brazil.
Carol Prusa
(USA, b. 1956）
Carol Prusa (USA, b.1956), a graduate of Drake University with a Master degree in painting, currently resides and works in North Carolina, USA. Prusa inherits the silverpoint drawing technique from the Renaissance period, delving into astrophysics to interpret the chaotic interactions of cosmic evolution. Through the meticulous and refined grayscale of silverpoint, Prusa intricately incorporates sculpture forms, portraying the beauty of cosmic anomalies, and has gained recognition for her unique artistic expression. She has received the SECAC Artistic Achievement Award and has been invited to exhibit at the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her works are featured in several silverpoint history books, permanently housed in over a dozen museums across the United States, including the Perez Museum of Art in Miami, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and the Telfair Museums. She has held major solo exhibitions at various institutions, including the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Norton Museum of Art.
Angela Glajcar
(Germany, b.1970）
Born in Mainz, Germany, Angela Glajcar studied sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg from 1991 to 1998. Glajcar's work embodies sculpture and installation, it examines the way in which space is experienced using a material that is fragile and light. In the act of ripping and perforating a material that is traditionally used as a two-dimensional support, Glajcar gives paper a strong sculptural presence. Terforation is the title of Angela Glajcar's famous cubic pieces. The staggered arrangement of the vertically hung series of sheets of white paper, with torn edges, produces cave-like recessions. These extend into the depth of the sculpture. The sharp ridges and deep caverns gives viewer a fascinating room of harmony and silence. Glajcar has exhibited extensively and been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Studio Award of the Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, the Asterstein scholarship in 1999 and Vordemberge Gildewart Award in 2004. Glajcar's works have been showcased in various prominent public art exhibitions, including Cologne Cathedral, the Frankfurt Department of Culture, the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Mainz Gutenberg Museum. Permanent collections of Glajcar's works can be found at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art in the United States, the Wiesbaden Museum in Germany, the Mainz Arts and Sciences Center in Germany, and the Hanten Schmidt collection in Austria.
Christiane Grimm
(Germany, b. 1957)
Christiane Grimm has created colour and light spaces ever since the mid-1980s. A major focus of her researches is on colour itself, which she investigates in terms of its luminosity, its wide range of nuances, the ways they can be combined, and also their effect on the viewer.
代俊鵬 Dai Junpen
（China, b.1996）
代俊鵬（中國，b.1996）畢業於廣州美術學院美術碩士，現工作與生活於廣州，並任教於廣州應用科技學院。他的創作在「當代精神」與「傳統筆墨」間來回探索，試圖以自然樸實的方式體現山水物象的人文精神。如何在人的主觀性與自然的客觀中找到平衡是他創作時所探尋的，如齊白石所說「作畫妙在似與不似之間」，畫作中的留白亦虛亦實，賦予觀者隨著時代、生活及感觸而產生不同的想像空間與共鳴。作品曾獲廣州美術學院畢業優秀獎。
皮凱 Pi Kai
（China, b.1995）
皮凱（中國，b.1995）畢業於西安美術學院版畫系碩士，現工作與生活於西安。他從遊戲螢幕中擷取畫面靈感，遊戲中的背景、人物與植物在他筆下構成了全新的世界，而畫中線條的構圖則分割了現實與遊戲的虛擬世界，人物在這兩者間遊離，時而躲入虛擬中體驗現實社會不曾感受的美好，試圖抽離的狀態也體現了現今環境下，人們將精神寄託於現實與虛構間轉換的隱密關係。皮凱於2017年加入視覺藝術廠牌TPH，作品曾展於西安美術館與上海蘇寧藝術館等。
Chingltu
（China, b.1985）
Chingltu (China, b. 1985) graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the Art Academy of Inner Mongolia University and currently lives and works in Shanghai. His creative process is profoundly influenced by his childhood memories of the pastoral lands, with recurring themes of contrast and tension: the city and the grasslands, the natural and the artificial, passion and rationality. After the pandemic, Chingltu turned his focus to the nomadic legend of the “Three Stones,” exploring the essence and truth of contemporary life. His work draws from religious philosophy but ultimately reflects back on the earth we inhabit, contemplating urban civilization through the lens of nomadic traditions. He seeks to uncover the commonalities and conflicts between urban life and nomadic culture, as well as the balance between reality and imagination. His works have been exhibited in the National Art Museum of China, Shaanxi History Museum, Today Art Museum, and Xi’an Art Museum.
Bay Tang Jiaxin
（China, b.1995）
Bay Tang Jiaxin (China, b. 1995) holds a Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art in the UK and currently lives and works in Changsha. Influenced by her background in printmaking, the qualities of paper have become central to her artistic language, allowing the material to convey her exploration of the blurred existence between space and time. In her Pierced Paper series, Tang uses a needle to lift the fibers of paper, creating an undulating surface through repetitive actions. These acts embody the passage of time, with the resulting texture and visual-tactile resonance reflecting her state of mind during the creative process and her inquiry into subspaces. Her work The Stone of Another Mountain has been collected by the Jiangxi Art Museum.