Artist in Residence---Ekkehard Stoevesand
“Ekkehard depicts his scene in heart by freely employing various strong colors with his energetic painting style. However, his painting is not to express any specific view deliberately, but to reflect the artist’s incessant pursuit, exploration and discovery of inner concept of the scene. As we see the world everyday by its appearance, Ekkehard is fond to seize the most exciting part of the object, and displays his works by its mystery and vigor as well……
Layers can be found clearly in each of Ekkehard’s works, and its colors always bring impact and pleasure to views; he conceives what he saw and creates each of his works among those little yet meaningful part of the world he sees.”
---------Excerpt from German Art Magazine (English Translation)
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2007 ROAD TO CHINA
EKKEHARD STOEVESAND SOLO EXHIBITION
OPENING: June 16, 2007, 3:00PM
Venue: XYZ Gallery Beijing
Ekkehard Stoevesand was born on June 25, 1946, in Berlin, the post-war destroyed city. He grew up in Berlin and still lives and works here – unless he is working abroad, for example on the American continent, in China, or giving symposia in Europe.
His artistic life as a sculptor and painter could be characterized as continuous departure. At the same time, it shows different versions of an impulsive escape, as he had to escape his parental home as a young man.
After leaving school he took up proper arts education at Universität der Künste in Berlin, though it would never have a formative influence on his way of working and his style. But how could a man of such a character bear dependency and categorization?
His strong colorful compositions take the opposite direction of abstraction. He does not abstract from something to something “new”, he rather creates something new in complete freedom so as to speak in the second view discovers in his paintings new realities, vistas, spheres and spaces, shadows and blazes.
In Ekkehard’s paintings there is a lot of experience and background, while his paintings neither offer comfortable, nor security. For the curious eye, there’s a lot to discover. The artistic style and gestures – they are unmistakable powerful, impetuous and eventful – in the field of association, powerful, on the threshold of abstraction. His visual experiences turn into objects. The observer aims for insight beyond internalized conceptions of beauty. This is when love for the composition arises.
Ekkehard’s work does not lead us to compare.
We shall not need to ask the artist, as Ekkehard is the one – and nobody else.
《2008 EAST WEST SINO-GERMAN ARTISTS JOINT EXHIBITION》
EKKEHARD STOEVESAND & FENG ZHONGYUN PAINTING WORKS EXHIBITION
Exhibition dates: Oct. 25, 2008 to Nov. 15, 1100hrs to 1800hrs
Venue: XYZ Gallery, D 05 of 798 Middle Second Street of 798 art center
Curator: Xueyi & Catherine
Contact Information: 010 8459 9299/13701104223
PRESS RELEASE
Ekkehard Stoevesand, a German Expressionist Artist, has been to come to China for the fifth times since 2002; loving to wander around town riding his favorite bicycle. Everything he experience in China, like the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the old street of Tianjing, as well as the traditional courtyards tucked away in the Hutongs, stimulates his nerve and inspires his creativity. Inspiration comes from such beautiful moments as the light reflecting off the old rooftop tiles, or the shadow from a temple door. Capturing such moments on canvas becomes the arduous task, as he might stand in front of the canvas for hour on end before painting, these long hours standing are a small price to pay for the privilege of seizing a rare emotion; for him, the process represents the utmost salute to life.
The structure of his painting is abundant, with in-depth conception, full of profundity and liveliness; the emotion uncovered from his painting is complicated but change is orderly; the contrast of color employed in his works, such as black and red, is both uplifting and depressing, it’s about the uncertainty. Furthermore, the mystery is filled with metaphor, expanding till expression is almost unbearable, then sloping under an elegantly soft melody……
Most of this exhibition’s paintings are about China-motif, additionally the artist want his paintings to be more affordable to Chinese collectors; by doing so, the artist would like to express his affection to the Chinese, expressing his gratitude to the people who inspire him.
Feng Zhongyun, a Chinese Contemporary Ink Wash Painting Artist, graduated from the Chinese Painting Faculty of Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in early 1990’s, and has won numerous international art awards. Through his artistic experiments, he has been walking between the realistic and the abstract, delivering a unique talent in pushing the form. Although he has a profound understanding of both traditional and contemporary artistic expression, his pursuit of a vision places his style in its own world.
The deep comprehension of brush ink, as well as the proficient grasp of the media, is the most important factor for Feng to form his artistic language. This character differs from most of other Chinese Contemporary artists, who generally imitate Modern Western Art. |
