Wolfgang Voegele
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Wolfgang Voegele's work shows a process from concept to intuition. He creates his own vocabulary by using archaic and simplistic forms and lines, and provokes a collision of concept and painting. After applying a computer-based sketch to canvas, a highly physical process starts: along the sketch, the artist applies black oil colour on canvas by scratching with a bristled and nearly broken brush. The physical energy of this act is transferred to the painting and the brushwork appears equally vigorous. In contrast to that gestural part, light and filigree lines within the composition are also delivered. Voegele adds, if any, selected elements of color to his work. The initial sketch operates as a base for the painting process and will be rejected, will loose significance, will be filled with intuition and taken further by the artist's act of painting. Following his intuition, coincidence becomes a part of the work process: elements of the artist's surroundings, the studio ́s floor for example, are added to the painting.
Continuing with the use of archaic and simplistic forms the artist sometimes works with a different approach to it: In place of a composition of various forms, Voegele here works with a simple …
Wolfgang Voegele's work shows a process from concept to intuition. He creates his own vocabulary by using archaic and simplistic forms and lines, and provokes a collision of concept and painting. After applying a computer-based sketch to canvas, a highly physical process starts: along the sketch, the artist applies black oil colour on canvas by scratching with a bristled and nearly broken brush. The physical energy of this act is transferred to the painting and the brushwork appears equally vigorous. In contrast to that gestural part, light and filigree lines within the composition are also delivered. Voegele adds, if any, selected elements of color to his work. The initial sketch operates as a base for the painting process and will be rejected, will loose significance, will be filled with intuition and taken further by the artist's act of painting. Following his intuition, coincidence becomes a part of the work process: elements of the artist's surroundings, the studio ́s floor for example, are added to the painting.
Continuing with the use of archaic and simplistic forms the artist sometimes works with a different approach to it: In place of a composition of various forms, Voegele here works with a simple amount of geometric forms. He eliminates, combines, multiplies and mirrors these forms in an intuitive way and thus begins a new development.
This intuitive process never seems to be done. The artist produces a completion by attaching a wooden frame to the paintings. As a certain part of his work, the frame provides a defined space for the painting and even gets a part of it.
Taking a second closer look, lines and forms in Voegele's work seem to result in representational elements: a forest, clothes, bodies. But as soon as the spectator spots anything that seems to be physical and tries to integrate it into the entire artwork, the seemingly representational elements vanish. Only landscapes sometimes allow associations, which work in context of the entire piece.
Voegele's work has held solo shows at Rod Barton Gallery in London; Sunday-S in Copenhagen, Denmark; FIFI Projects in Monterrey, Mexico; Annarumma Gallery in Naples, Italy; Galería Alegría in Madrid, Spain; and Kunstverein Kölnberg in Cologne, Germany. He has also shown in group shows at Jagla Ausstellungsraum in Cologne, Germany; Texas Contemporary in Houston, Texas; The Fireplaceproject in East Hampton, New York; and Galleri Jacob Bjorn in Aarhus, Denmark. He lives and works in Cologne.
Courtesy of Rod Barton
Born 1983
Hometown Waldshut, Germany
Lives and Works Cologne, Germany
Education
BA Literature, University of Cologne, Germany, 2010
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