Exhibition
Exhibition Tour
‘Winter Wonders’
Bluerider ART Taipei·RenAi
In this joyful winter season, Bluerider ART Taipei·Renai, presents the group exhibition "Winter Wonders." Whether exploring the exhibition with family and friends or selecting a unique piece of art as a gift for oneself or loved ones, it feels like entering a winter wonderland, leaving behind profound memories! The exhibition encompasses a range of high-quality artworks in various sizes, covering themes such as geometry, abstraction, florals, figures, realism, animals, and more. The artworks take diverse forms, from paintings and sculptures to installations, inviting viewers into an imaginative and spiritually uplifting wonderland.
German artist Christiane Grimm approaches her creations from an architectural perspective. Her work is known as "unplugged dynamic light and shadow." Over the years, she has experimented with light, colour, space, and the characteristics of materials like special glass and acrylic. The exhibited pieces represent the ethereal and tranquil essence of a silver-white icy world, symbolising seasonal landscapes, oceans, or lands. Particularly noteworthy is that the artworks emit their own light, guiding viewers into a dreamlike realm, immersing them in an extraordinary atmosphere. Australian artist Ces McCully uses concise compositions and muted colours to depict a mosaic of everyday life moods. She enjoys capturing moments of inspiration in the creative process, using a unique colour language to portray emotions and abstract lines to represent specific events, creating visually captivating chapters. Swiss artist Thierry Feuz conveys the concept that "seeing a flower creates a world." He highlights how everyone can correspond beautiful moments in their past life experiences to eternal memories. His artwork features rich yet balanced compositions, bold colours, and a dazzling and poetic aesthetic. The silver lustre with a festive atmosphere creates extraordinary imprints of profound emotions through painting. French artist Pascal Dombis explores themes of language, algorithms, and control. He excels at creating dynamic visuals, famous for excessive manipulation of algorithms, repetition, and unpredictability. Using computers and algorithms, he generates simple geometric shapes and printed symbols, manipulating text, images, and lines. Through simple code instructions and the continuous addition of random parameters, he creates unpredictable dynamic visual graphics.
Exhibiting artists:
Christiane Grimm
Ces McCully
Thierry Feuz
Pascal Dombis
Willi Siber
Adrian Wald
Almudena Pintado
Bryan Ida
Janna Watson
Nick Veasey
Peter Krauskopf
Angela Glajcar
Carol Prusa
Wolfgang Flad
Teo San José
Tanja Rochelmeyer
Beñat Olaberria
Jan Kaláb
Sebastian Masegosa
Tom Smith
‘Winter Wonders’
Exhibition date：2023.11.18-2024.2.28
Bluerider ART Taipei·RenAi
10F., No. 25-1, Sec. 4, Renai Rd., Taipei
Tue. – Sat. 10am-6pm
Works
Artist
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.
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Ces McCully
(Australia, b.1982)
Completing a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts in 2005, Ces Mccully is a contemporary artist currently based in France. Her abstract work is typically characterized by bold shapes and muted colors palettes, with pieces often inspired by daily matters. She enjoys the creative process leaded by her intuition and produces unique paintings through selected shades and lines. Her works are held in private collections internationally and has been shown within Europe and Australia. Mccully currently has her work on display in the Louis Vuitton flagship store, Sydney CBD.
Thierry Feuz
(Switzerland, 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)
Graduated from Tufts University computer art and Insa University in Lyon, France. Digital artist Pascal Dombis currently lives and works in Paris. His focus involves the exploration of language, noise, control, and irrationality. Dombis has been using computers and algorithms to generate and elaborate repetitions of simple processes, which computationally reproduce geometric or typographical signs. Started as a painter, Dombis notes that his encounter with William Burroughs’s art was a key moment for his new investigations into digital art. Dombis uses optical materials such as lenticular plates to revisit the way viewers look at things, and to question the very nature of images in the broad sense of the word. By using lenticular, allows him to play with the viewer’s gaze. The incessant circulation of images has made the way of looking at things more dynamic. Moreover, the lenticular material questions this new reading paradigm and brings about a physical and time-related experience. Over the years he created monumental public works for the City of Perth, Australia, the Ministry of Culture in France, and an 8 meter long outdoor sculpture installation along the River bank in Shanghai, China. His art exhibited around the world including Musée en Herbe in France, Museum Kunstpalast in Denmark, Velchev Art Museum in Bulgaria, and the University of Georgia in the USA.
Willi Siber
(Germany, b. 1949）
Born in Upper Swabia, the center of Baroque art history, Willi Siber studied art history at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His creations inherited the fluidity, theatricality, and splendid visual effects of Baroque art also incorporated a contemporary perspective. Siber once said "My creations stem from change." Over the long artist career he not only excels in painting, but also known for art objects , installations, sculptures. Using wood, steel, epoxy resin, exploring the malleability of materials, focusing not just on the aesthetic expression of materials he constantly research, validation, and overturning of established perceptions, breaking through the limitations of materials. His playfulness with colors further highlights his concise style. Willi Siber's exhibitions have spanned across Europe and the United States, his works permanently collected by German Federal Parliament, the German Embassy in Argentina, Deutsche Bank, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Städtisches Kunstmuseum in Singen, and private art museums Kunstwerk Sammlung Klein, Museum Ritter and private collectors worldwide.
Adrian Wald
(Germany, b.1986)
Adrian Wald (Germany, b.1986) was born in Bavaria, Germany, currently lives and works in Munich. He studied graphic painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Ecole Mediterraneo des Arts in Marseille, France. In Wald's creative field, there is no clear boundary between "sculpture" and "painting", installation works that combine sculpture and painting are the main forms of creation. He deconstructs objects and embodies the concept of "breaking the way or order of viewing paintings" through his works. Wald has been selected to participate in the artist-in-residence program in Riedenburg, Germany many times, and has received grants from the Bavarian Ministry of Arts and Culture.
Almudena Pintado
(Spain , b. 1969）
Almudena Pintado, born in Spain, currently creates and resides in Switzerland. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions and art fairs, spanning countries such as Spain, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Italy, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, the United States, Iran, Singapore, and Brazil. Her exhibition experience includes prestigious venues like the Louvre Museum's Carrousel Museum in Paris and the Museum of the Americas in Mexico. She has also been invited to participate in art projects at the Tijuana Cultural Center of the Mexican Consulate in California. Pintado's rich list of awards includes honors from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Brazil, awards from the National Arts Organization in Paris, a bronze award from the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, and the first international art award from the Cordoba Alliance in Spain.
Bryan Ida
(USA, b.1963)
Bryan Ida is an American artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles. As a master mixing acrylic paints, epoxy and polyester, Ida shows his talent by applying unique material on forming abstract landscapes as a great play of color, light and composition. His work has been featured in dozens of museums. Notable recent shows are at Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Riverside Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. His works is currently in Microsoft Corporate collection and Genencor International collection.
Janna Watson
(Canada, b. 1983)
Janna Watson（Canada, b. 1983）uses abstraction as both an escape from and return to the real. As the world we know dematerializes into paint strokes, so too does her paint take stage as its very own character in a multi-act drama of composition. Bundles of colour, made up of discrete yet inseparable instances of pigment—what Watson refers to as “moments”—are teeming and poised as though caught mid-multiplication. Sweeps of paint re-direct sharply and fold over themselves; thin, rigid ink lines cut into the pictorial field as rudimentary elements in an increasingly complex system of painterly language. All the components play out on a surface of slow, chromatic gradation. Like many of Watson’s players, these backdrops tenderly gesture toward the familiar, stopping just short of representation. The result is a conceptual project (and distinct, stylistic signature) that speaks to a contemporary milieu in which abstract painting is not the retreat of meaning into an unrecognizable realm, but rather the emergence of medium as a “figure” in its own self-inscribed world of feeling and being. Watson does more than reveal paint’s potential to emote—she gives it a space to reveal itself, in its own time.
Nick Veasey
(UK, b. 1962)
Internationally renowned X-ray artist Nick Veasey reveals the hidden facets beneath the surface using his unique X-ray penetration technique. His work humorously and mischievously explores the essence of people and objects' inner nature. Nick Veasey uses x-ray to strip back the layers and show what it is like under the surface. The technique reveals what, and often how, things are made, which grants his art to penetrate the surface and take us on a journey into a world otherwise hidden and unseen. Veasey has an extensive exhibition experience worldwide, with his artwork featured on the cover of TIME magazine and invited to give a TED talk. In 2018, he held a large-scale exhibition at the renowned Fotografiska museum in Sweden, visited by The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Crown Princess of Sweden. He also photographed important antique costumes for the Victoria and Albert Museum and collaborated with various brands such as Louis Vuitton, United Airlines, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen. Works collected by the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Science and Media Museum in the UK, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum at FIT in the USA, the BMW Museum in Germany and the Museum of Applied Arts and Design (MUDAC) in Switzerland.
Peter Krauskopf
(Germany, b. 1966)
Peter Krauskopf studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in his birth town Leipzig and later continued as a post-graduate under Arno Rink. Known for his break with the figurative tradition of Leipzig painting, Peter Krauskopf especially interested in the process of overpainting, which he understands as an overwriting of time. All of his pieces – the intensive colored smaller plates, as well as the big monochrome color gradients, seem to be abstract at first sight, but they are all ‘concretions of a period of time’. On homogeneous, smooth grounds which either consist of an old, former abandoned painting or a monochrome under painting, Krauskopf performs one single intervention to form a new picture. In 2015 he received the Falkenrot Prize. His paintings were widely exhibited including the Mies van der Rohe-Haus, Berlin, the Forum Kunst Rottweil, the Kunsthalle Lingen and Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, works presented in the collection of the Albertinum in Dresden, the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, the City Museum of Wrocław, the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, the Museum Schloss Morsbroich in Leverkusen, Kupferstichkabinett and the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.
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.
Carol Prusa
(USA, b. 1956）
Carol Prusa holds a Master of Fine Arts from Drake University, where she specialized in painting. She is known for her meticulous silverpoint technique, an ancient and refined grayscale technique with the silver stylus, and the use of unexpected materials from sculpted resin and fiberglass to metal leaf and LED large-scale installations. Through this precise and sophisticated method, she explores the astronomic origin of life as well as the philosophy of cosmology in her silverpoint work. Carol Prusa received a SECAC Artistic Achievement Award in 2017 and awarded for 2020 Manifest Prize. Her works have been highly regarded in historical books on Silverpoint feature. Prusa participated in 2015-2016 Miami Biennale and had exhibited in many museums and important institutions including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, etc. Her work included in excellent public and private collections, including the Perez Museum of Art, The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Telfair Art Museum (Savannah), Spencer Museum of Art, and the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection.
Wolfgang Flad
(Germany, b. 1974)
Wolfgang Flad is a German artist living and working in Berlin. Born in 1974, he studied textile design at Fachhochschule Reutlingen and fine arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Germany and other European countries, and has placed his artwork in museum collections in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Primarily a sculptor, Flad is interested in “upcycling” previously used material, and in creating unexpected associations and connections between art and the natural world.
Teo San José
(Spain, b. 1958)
Teo San José, born in Valladolid, Spain, currently resides and creates art in both Górliz and Dénia, Spain. His works have been featured in various international exhibitions, including the Florence Contemporary Art Biennale, the Paris Contemporary Art Triennial, the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London, the Royal Society of British Sculptors, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Paralax exhibition in New York, and he has represented Spain at the London International Architecture Biennale. Teo San José has a rich history of awards, including the National Design Award of Spain, being the first Spanish artist to receive the Public Art Award from the Royal Society of British Sculptors (RBS), the Honorary Award from the renowned British art institution ARTOTEQUE, and a Special Award from the Valencia Biennale. He is also a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (RBS). His works are part of permanent collections held by institutions such as the Valdoreix City Council in Spain, the Klein-Schereuder Foundation, the Customer Education Management Association (CEdMA), and the Municipal Government of Cholet in France, as well as private collections in Hollywood.
Tanja Rochelmeyer
(Germany, b. 1975）
Tanja Rochelmeyer graduated from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Many of her creations draw inspiration from her engineering background, emphasizing attention to detail and mathematical precision. However, calculations are not the medium of creation but an intermediate step in the creative process. Her training as an engineer has contributed to a perfectionist approach to technology, creating a sharp contrast with the moments of image creation. Ultimately, she positions herself and the subject of her creation within this contrast. "Constructivism and futurism meet the latest architecture and merge into a new language of modern painting." Tanja Rochelmeyer creates maze-like, dispersed spatial configurations, introducing multiple perspectives into the concept of imagery.
Beñat Olaberria
(Spain, b.1970)
With a master's degree from the London City Art Institute, Beñat Olaberria currently creates and resides in London. His work, created in a non-impressionistic, non-narrative, and non-reductive manner, explores the unknown realms of form, composition, rhythm, and balance. Olaberria likens his creative process to a "walk," an adventurous journey where the final destination is uncertain. His pencil lines and heavy acrylic pigments present an incomplete and uncertain aspect through abstract compositions. Olaberria opposes predefined visual interpretations of his work, leaving gaps for viewers to interpret based on their experiences, creating multiple ways of understanding. The diverse materials he employs, including pencil, acrylic paint, clay, and charcoal, contribute to the layered and open-ended nature of his works. The exhibition will showcase Olaberria's latest works from 2023, inviting viewers to perceive and fill the gaps between their past experiences and the artwork.
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.
Sebastian Masegosa
(Argentina, b.1974)
Sebastian Masegosa was graduated from Panamerican University of Art, lives and works in Argentina. Using acrylic paints, oil, automotive paint, petrol and corrosives, all these non compatible materials speak of the infinite possibilities that exist in creation and the artist explores with them and looking for reactions between them. Masegosa had been exhibited in several museums and institutions including Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Museo de Arte Tigre, Museo de Arte Moderno in Mendoza. His work is also included in collection of MNBA Neuquén and Portugal important architect Manuel Aires Mateus's private collection.
Tom Smith
(USA, b.1984)
Tom Smith (American, b.1984) was graduated from School of Visual Arts in New York and is based in New York for developing his art. Smith has pursued the possibilities art could achieve since his academic career. Concentrated on experimenting on colors and forms, Smith keeps broadening the limitation of image. The illusion effect and message contained in Smith’s work are also inquiry into people’s conditioning for recognition, conscious and ubconscious.