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台北·敦仁 展館 DunRen Gallery
“Beyond Light 光徑”
— Hans Kotter 漢斯.卡特 亞洲首個展
「沒有比光更深刻影響我們這個星球的元素,沒有光,我們將生活在一個沒有形狀、沒有色彩的世界。我試著在其中,尋找複雜地且具可視性的藝術形式。」
– Hans Kotter 漢斯·卡特
自16世紀始,西方藝術史中的光與藝術,便一直藝術家探討的議題,到攝影藝術發展、21世紀大城市無所不在炫目的霓虹燈、燈光科技,燈光也成為設計領域中,影響生活的重要項目。藝術評論家John Berger曾在《觀看的視界》(The Sense of Sight) 描述:「光是能量的形式,是所有生命的泉源。」眼睛攔截了光線與吸收、反射光的表面產生無盡的交流,兩者發生關係,在可見物中發現意義。「光」在各種媒材中扮演了重要角色。Bluerider ART推出全新燈光藝術展 「Beyond Light 光徑」即呈現藝術家Hans Kotter 漢斯·卡特,如何以燈光,這個日常通俗且不可或缺的媒材,創作色彩繽紛且超乎視覺空間想像的燈光藝術作品。
從小受到未來派畫家Umberto Boccioni以及 Op Art 歐普藝術Victor Vasarely吸引,藝術家 Hans Kotter 漢斯·卡特,一路的創作脈絡是複雜多元的。他不斷嘗試各種可能,從具象的繪畫到攝影、從觀念藝術到裝置藝術,反映出些許現代藝術流派的身影,像是歐普藝術(Op Art)的幻視,利用光學特性營造奇異的視覺效果,用特殊的線條、色彩排列組合造成視覺錯覺,或是低限主義(Minimalism)強調從材料的物性出發,呈現物件的真實樣貌,而非表現文化屬性,開放作品自身在概念上的限制,讓觀眾自主參與對作品的建構。 Hans Kotter漢斯·卡特認為公共藝術扮演著重要任務,是讓空間成為藝術過程的重要元素,他樂於邀請觀眾參與其中,期待讓觀眾在過程中感受到快樂。
Umberto Boccioni, Volumi Orizzontali, 1911-1912
Victor Varsarely, Zebra, 1937, 52 x 60 cm
Umberto Boccioni, The street enters the house, 1912, Oil on canvas, 100cm × 100.5 cm (Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany) , 未來主義頌揚現代科技、速度、動力和革命,認為藝術應表現出動力的感受
Victor Vasarely, Vega-Do, 1970, Acrylic on cardboard, 80 x 80 cm, 歐普藝術(Op Art)的幻視,利用光學特性營造奇異的視覺效果,用特殊的線條、色彩排列組合造成視覺錯覺
François Morellet, Pier and Ocean, 2014, 低限主義(Minimalism)強調從材料的物性出發,呈現物件的真實樣貌,而非表現文化屬性,開放作品自身在概念上的限制,讓觀眾自主參與對作品的建構
Still Lifes, 6 Glass Cases Metal Resin Plexiglas Finds Wood, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Cologne, Germany 1999
Balance, Luminous Foil and Inverter, Shunt, Courtesty Kinetica Museum Londn, 2008
Big Bang, Interruption, Metal, Wood, Plesiglas, Mirror LED, De Buck Gallery, NY, 2014
Point of View, Plexiglas, LED, Metal, DMX Controller, 2017
Bluerider ART “Beyond Light 光徑- Hans Kotter 漢斯·卡特” 2021亞洲首個展,展出其近年不同系列作品:Cliffs 及Shifting structure系列,以幾何元素呈現無限重複的光影;Double view系列,展示具有節奏感的圖形雕塑,觀眾需要仔細檢查,才能分辨虛實。針對「光線」在「空間」本身之轉介,過去的 「光」是為了反射物體表面,而進入到人類眼睛產生的「光譜」,而在Kotter卡特 作品中,「光」成為本體,不為任何圖案或對象而生,它產生炫目的色澤,無重量地懸浮在空中及牆面,擁有自主性。人造光,縱使在固定框架中,它的任務是給予空間更多的延伸。
Shifting Structure (Hexagon), 127 cm x 74 cm, 2020, 1+1AP, Video Screen, Plexiglas, Mirror, metal
Cliffs, 130 cm x 85 cm, 2018-19, AP_2+1AP, Metal, LED, DMX-Controller and Plexiglas
Double view, 2012, 90x60cm, 2AP_3+2AP, Plexigals, mirror, metal, LED color change, Remote
如同一位「白晝與黑暗的光行者」,Hans Kotter漢斯·卡特運用光的結構,將觀眾的視線拓展到新的高度。在白晝中,極簡雕塑呈現著純粹、乾淨的極致美感。而在黑暗中,是一種具世俗洞察力的隱喻。白晝與黑暗中竄流的光徑,允諾每個人勇於詮釋的自由。
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藝術家Artist
Hans Kotter 漢斯·卡特
(Germany, b. 1966)
出生於德國巴伐利亞邦,就讀紐約藝術學院(Art Students League of New York) 畢業於慕尼黑媒體設計學院。現創作居住於柏林。2004年被授予「德國巴伐利亞文化獎」Bavarian Culture Award, E-ON藝術建築領域獎項。Kotter以燈光雕塑裝置創作為人所知。曾任德國斯圖加特國家藝術與設計學院講師,2014年獲得德國國際Unna燈光藝術中心的國際燈光獎項提名。德國著名藝術史學家Kai-Uwe Hemken 評論Hans Kotter 漢斯·卡特 作品:「Kotter 卡特 為觀者提供了作品的維度,是批判性、自我反省、與洞察導向,同時重新呈現了現代主義的基本烏托邦。」德國知名策展人暨藝術評論家Peter Lodermeyer則形容Hans Kotter 漢斯·卡特作品「充滿光的形式與鏡面平滑的作品,總是閃閃發光地乾淨與純粹」。Hans Kotter 漢斯·卡特目前持續在各國博物館展出,包括德國里特博物館、英國倫敦Kinetica博物館、德國科隆應用藝術博物館、德國科隆MAKK博物館..等。作品由義大利TARGETTI光之藝術典藏、德國立陶宛博物館、德國聯邦議會等眾多機構永久收藏。
Hans Kotter 於2020年3.11-4.26 於德國科隆應用藝術博物館(MAKK- MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS COLOGNE)展出個展 “Light- Colour- Space“
Hans Kotter 參與2018年突尼斯國際燈光藝術節 Interference
Hans Kotter 2016年於 德國 Museum Ritter 展出
Hans Kotter 2013年於 維也納Kubus Export 展出
Hans Kotter 2008年於倫敦地鐵站 London Bridge Station 舉辦 Kinetica Museum, London開幕特展
Tunnel View “Down Under”, Plexiglas, Metal, Mirror, LED Light with Colour Changes, 2011 (Museum Ritter收藏)
Hans Kotter 2008年於倫敦地鐵站 London Bridge Station 舉辦 Kinetica Museum, London開幕特展
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Hans Kotter
Germany, b.1966
2014 Nominated for the International Light Award, Centre for International Light Art Unna, Germany
2007 – 13 Lecturer at State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart, Germany
2011 Artist in Residence, Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2004 Bavarian Culture Award (E-ON), Germany
2001 – 03 MediaDesign Akademie Munich, Germany
1993 – 94 Art Students League, New York, studied with Bruce Dorfman und William Scharf
Selected Solo Exibitions
2021 Bluerider ART, Taipei, Taiwan, Beyond Light
2020 De Buck Gallery, New York, MAKK: Selections
2020 Light, Colour, Space, Museum of Applied Art, Cologne, Germany
2020 Futurs Antérieurs, La Chapelle, Chaumont – FR
2020 Regards d’Artistes, Château d’Aunoy, Champeaux – FR
2019 The Invisible Generation, Galerie Pascal Janssens / Keyes Art Mile,
Johannesburg – SA Crackography, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Gand – BE
2018 Leuchtende Unendlichkeit / Luminous Infinity, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria
2018 More Light, Stern-Wywiol Galerie, Hamburg
2017 Point of View, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
2016 Beyond light, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2015 Beyond light, Bildraum 07, Vienna, Austria
2014 Light Flow, Galerie Nery Marino, Paris, France
2014 Interruption, De Buck Gallery, New York City, NY, United States
2013 Superposition, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria
2013 Replaced – light flow, Kubus Export, Vienna, Austria
2013 Light flow, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany
2012 Home sweet home, Galerie Klaus Benden, Cologne, Germany
2012 In the flux, Galerie Nery Marino, Paris, France
2011 Light flow, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
2011 Light sensitive, De Buck Gallery, New York, United States
2011 Point of view, Priveekollektie, Heusden aan de Maas, Netherlands
2011 Deflection, Studio d’Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome, Italy
2010 Transformation, Priveekollektie, Heusden aan de Maas, Netherlands
2009 Replaced, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
2009 Replaced, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria, (catalogue)
2008 The very best…, Gallery Benden & Klimczak, Cologne, Germany
2008 Balance, Shunt London, Great Britain, with Kinetica Museum London, Great Britain
2008 Colour rush, Gallery Bernd Lausberg, Toronto, Canada
2007 Ccolour rush, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London, Great Britain, (catalogue)
2006 Luminale Frankfurt, Germany – Biannual light culture festival, with Patrick Heide
Contemporary Art London, Great Britain
2006 Licht Farbe Raum, Gallery Bernd Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
2005 Chromatic impulse, Berlinische Galerie with Company Spectral, Germany
2004 Balance, Raum für Kunst/Art space, Art Association Ravensburg, Germany
2004 Illuminations, Aedes, Berlin, Germany
2004 Macro landscape, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
2003 Lichtecht/lightfast, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2002 Light and colour, Bezirks Galerie Oberbayern/Gallery District Upper Bavaria,
Munich, Germany
2002 Beauty in plastic, City Museum Neuötting, Germany
2001 Blue line, Factory Pasinger, Munich, Germany
1999 Stillleben, Gallery Benden & Klimczak, Cologne, Germany
1998 Spurensicherung, City Gallery in the House of Culture, Waldkraiburg,
Germany
1997 Diary with sound-collage, Modern Theatre Munich, Germany
1997 Tagebuchnotizen, Gallery Hofmeisterhaus, Massing/Rottal, Germany
1994 Body language, Radio centre of Bratislava, Slovakia
1993 Stadtmuseum Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg, Germany
1993 Daydreams, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, United States
Collections
MAKK Museum, Cologne, Germany
Targetti Light Art Collection, Italy
Collection of the German Federal Parliament, Germany
Museum Ritter, Germany
Osthaus Museum, Germany
Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany
Villa Datris, Fonds pour la Sculpture Contemporaine, France
Borusan Art Collection, Turkey
Collection Fidelity Investment, United Kingdom & United States
Collection DEKA Bank, Germany
Collection Candy & Candy Hyde Park One, United Kingdom
Collection Ron Dennis, United Kingdom
Kinetica Museum, United Kingdom
Collection Jean et Colette Cherqui, France
Collection Ichikowitz, South Africa
Collection Aareal Bank, Germany
Collection Jan des Bouvrie, Netherlands
Collection Heubeck, Cologne, Germany
Topping Rose House’s Collection, Bridghampton, New York
Collection Gerald and Jody Lippes, Naples, FL, USA
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
AT&T Collection, Dallas, Texas
Public Art
2010 Warburg Pincus, Frankfurt, Germany
2009 Aareal Bank, Hamburg, Germany
2007 Booz Allen Hamilton GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Hotel Maximilian, Nürnberg, Germany
School in Bavaria, Germany
2005 Immobilien Investment Frankfurt, Skyper, Frankfurt, Germany
Derag AG, Hotel Kanzler, Bonn, Germany
2004 E-ON Bayern Regensburg, administration building, Regensburg, Germany
Neuga Bauträge, object at Burghauser-Tor, Neuötting, Germany
2003 DEKA Immobilien Investment Frankfurt, Leomax, Munich, Germany
Staatliches Hochbauamt Rosenheim, land surveying office, Germany
1999 Passauer Neue Presse, media center, Passau, Germany
1998 Stadt Burghausen, community center, Burghausen, Germany
Passauer Neue Presse, editorial office, Passau, Germany
1997 Wochenblatt Burghausen, editorial office, Burghausen, Germany