Exhibition
Installation View
2024 FOCUS LONDON Art Fair
10th-13th October, 2024
Booth G7.1
VIP Preview
October 10th Thur. 3pm - 9pm
Public Day
October 11th Fri. 11am - 9pm
October 12th Sat. 11am - 6pm
October 13th Sun. 10am - 5pm
Location
SAATCHI Gallery
Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London SW3 4RY, UK
Bluerider ART
2024 FOCUS LONDON #G7.1
Bluerider ART is pleased to announce our participation in the 2024 FOCUS LONDON Art Fair, Booth G7.1. We will be presenting the latest works of several artists represented by Bluerider ART. This exhibition will showcase a diverse array of artistic expressions, including video sculptures, abstract paintings, innovative use of materials, and explorations of time, space, and perception. Marck’s video sculptures create a fascinating interaction between video and sculptural frames, offering a captivating visual experience while delving into issues concerning women topic. Angela Glajcar's hand-torn paper works create an incredible three-dimensional space through the interplay of light and shadow. Dirk Salz’s multi-layered resin works challenge the viewer’s understanding of materials, blurring boundaries and altering perceptions of visual symmetry. Jan Kaláb condenses the vibrant energy of outdoor environments into geometrically distorted canvases through circular transformations. We warmly invite you to visit Booth G7.1 to explore these extraordinary artworks with us!
Exhibiting Artists:
Marck
Dirk Salz
Nick Veasey
Pascal Dombis
Jan Kaláb
Angela Glajcar
Christiane Grimm
Reinoud Oudshoorn
Works
Artist
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.
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.
Nick Veasey
(UK, b. 1962)
Nick Veasey (UK, b.1962) lives and works in Kent, UK, working primarily with radiography to create his images X-ray images. Through the unique penetration of the X-ray process, Nick Veasey strips back the layers to show what lies beneath the surface, revealing the inner workings behind the subjects facade, playfully and mischievously exploring the essence of objects and human inner desire. Veasey’s worldwide recognition includes; imagery for the front cover of TIME magazine, recent collaborations with Alexander McQueen SS23 and the Victoria and Albert Museum "Balenciaga: shaping fashion" exhibition, a large-scale retrospective at the renowned Fotografiska museum in Sweden, visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Swedish royalty. Recent shows include “X-ray Men” at the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art and “APMA chapter 3” at the Amorepacific Museum of Art. Permanently collected in the V&A Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the US, the BMW Museum in Germany, the National Science and Media Museum in the UK, and the Museum of Applied Arts and Design in Switzerland, important collaborations with international brands like Louis Vuitton, United Airlines, Balenciaga, and more.
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.
Jan Kaláb
(Czech Republic,b. 1978)
Jan Kaláb graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, and currently lives and works in Prague. As a pioneer of Czech graffiti art, Jan Kaláb has been constantly forging a path as a non- traditional artist. He transitioned from street graffiti into pure white spaces, starting with points and developing them into circular transformations and 3D sculptures, condensing the exuberance of the outdoors onto geometrically distorted canvases. He represented the Czech Republic at the Shanghai World Expo in the Czech Pavilion, and his works are held in collections at The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML), National Art Museum of Brazil, Deji Art Museum in China, Daejeon Museum of Art in South Korea, and cooperate with numerous international luxury brands including Dior and Tiffany.
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.
Reinoud Oudshoorn
(Netherland, b. 1953)
Reinoud Oudshoorn is a contemporary minimalist artist from the Netherlands. He graduated from the AKI Art Academy in the Netherlands and currently lives and works in Amsterdam, where he used to teach at the KABK (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten). Reinoud Oudshoorn is renowned for his minimalist sculptures focus on "Vanishing Point" to construct three dimentional spaces: physical space, invisible space and poetic imagination space. He advocates that "sculpture should create space larger than the work itself" . His exhibitions across Europe, America, and Asia, exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum and Museum Fodor in Amsterdam..etc. Works permanently collected by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the AkzoNobel Art Foundation in the Netherlands, ABN AMRO Bank in the Netherlands, and the private art museum Sammlung Schroth in Germany..etc.