2013_Nicholas Bodde
니콜라스 보데
2013.8.8 - 2013.9.12
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Nicholas Bodde
2013. 8. 8(Thu) - 9. 12(Thu)
Nicholas Bodde paints on aluminium plates by successive coats of painting that he applies with different utensils to finally obtain a result that imprints itself the retina of the eye. The game of colourful stripes, more or less large, sometimes with the feeling of the brush, sometimes flat, reflects the light differently on each lap. The brightness of his palette, a wilful choice, accentuates the vitality that emanates from this painting. His works hesitates between the vibrating and nearly irritating colours and the calm of a monastic construction.
Painting work by Nicholas Bodde is composed of colored horizontal lines in different heights, which makes a harmonized structure. The work doesn't show a specific image but abundant colors and expression of paints themselves provide abstract experience in depth to the audience.
People's eyes and heads unconsciously follow the horizontal lines from left to right so that they can 'read' lines and colors on painting as reading a book. A progress of composition makes rich visual images.
Bodde's work gives a different feeling in terms of a distance of viewing. When seeing in a long distance, the work looks like a structural-geometry construction, but in the opposite case, people can notice that the artist's main purpose is drawing, not structure or building. His work with researching use and value of color in a fixed structure suggests variety and more strictness for his art world.
Nicholas Bodde 니콜라스 보데
2013. 8. 8(Thu) - 9. 12(Thu)
니콜라스 보데의 회화작업은 알루미늄 판 위에 혼합재료로 구사되거나 혹은 종이 위에 물감으로 이루어져 있다. 높이가 서로 다른 수많은 수평선의 칼라 평원으로 구성되어져 있는데, 때로는 넓은 평원으로, 때로는 전체 평원을 가로지르는 얇은 선으로 등장한다. 이러한 칼라 평원들은 신비로운 조화를 이루며 아름다운 구조물을 만들어 낸다. 작품에서 구체적인 이미지를 읽을 수 없지만, 풍부한 색채와 물감자체의 자발적인 표정으로 상상력을 지니며 관람자에게 더 넓고 깊은 추상을 만들어내게 하는 작품이라 말할 수 있다.
사람들의 눈과 머리는 무의식적으로 왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 수평선으로 길게 늘어난 선을 따라 움직이게 되는데 따라서 사람들은 그 그림에 있는 선과 색을 마치 책의 글을 읽듯 그림을 ‘읽게’된다. 왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 흐르는 듯한 구성의 진행이 풍부한 시감을 만들어 내는 것이다.
보데의 작품은 멀리 보았을 때와 가까운 거리에서 보았을 때, 서로 다른 느낌을 제공한다. 보는 이가 거리를 두고 보았을 때는 구조적-기하학적인 구축물로 보이는 반면, 가까이서 보았을 때는 그의 주된 목적은 구조, 구축이 아닌 그리는 행위라는 것을 알아차린다. 정해진 구조 안에서 색의 사용과 가치에 대해 여러 가지 꾸준한 시도를 하면서 보데는 그의 작업에서 자신의 예술세계의 다양함과 보다 엄격함을 제시하고 있다.
Profile
1962 born in New York, USA
1982-89 University for Fine Art, Bremen, Germany
1991 Scholarship by State Schleswig Holstein
1994 German Art Price, Volks-und Raiffeisen Bank
1997 1.Price, new building concept of East European Institute, Bremen
1999 Scholaship by Kestner Foundation, Hannover
- Project Concrete Fries, Art Museum, Studio A, Otterndorf
live and work in Bermen and Berlin
Solo-Exhibition
2012 Toomey Tourrell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Kunstbüro Berlin, Berlin
2011 Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt
- Kunstkabinett Haus Paula Becker, Bremen
- Galerie Lothar Kurz, Ingolstadt
2010 yeh gallery, seoul (kor) (mit jonathan lasker, alex katz und julian opie)
- galerie konkret martin wörn (mit siegfried kreitner)
- neue galerie landshut (mit joe barnes)
- ulf larsson kunstkontor, köln
- SURFACES, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover (mit Eric Butcher und Christian Kintz)
2009 kunstverein zeven, königin christinen haus
- club des arts, european council (main building), strasbourg (f)
2008 galerie lahumiere, paris (f)
- krammig & pepper contemporary, berlin
- galerie linde hollinger (mit dieter balzer, jürgen paas und michael reiter)
2007 gesellschaft für kunst & gestaltung, bonn
- kunstverein speyer
2006 architektur galerie berlin
- artstudio 1, deinste – stade
- galerie der stadt remscheid
2005 galerie katrin rabus, bremen
- galerie art academy, dresden
2004 bremer botschaft, brüssel (b)
- architektur galerie, berlin
galerie wosimsky, giessen
2004 Architecture Gallery, Berlin
2003 Gallery YEH, Seoul, Korea
- Bremen Embassy, Bruxelles(BEL)
- Marz Gallery, Mannheim
- Gallery Lahumiere, Paris
2002 Gallery Paul, Bremerhafen
- Marz Gallery, Mannheim
- Gallery Luzan, Bremen
2001 Art space, Drochtersen-Hull
2000 Germen Art Center, New York City, USA
1999 Bremen Sparkassenhalle
1998 Dialogue Art 6, Gallery of old city hall, Worpswede
1996 Kunstverein Achim(Art Institute)
1994 Studio Alexander street, Bremen
Group-Exhibition
Since 2000 participated in Art Fair in Koeln, Paris, Franfurt, Basel
2007 tryptique, manifestation d art ´contemporain, angers (f)
2006 musee tavet-delacour, pontoise (f)
2005 au tour du blanc, mardi museum, dallas, texas (usa)
2004 leepa-rattner museum, tarpon springs, florida (usa)
2002 farbe & aluminium, kunstverein grevenbroich
2001 Kestner Foundation, Hannover
2000 un parcours, Lahumiere Collection, City Gallery, Bremen
- Nortwest Art, Art Hall Wilhelmshaven
- Forderpreis f. Constructive Art Bremen 2000
1999 CHRONOLOGIC, The Planet Art Gallery, Kapstadt, SA
- Jubilarte 25 Jahre BBK(Artist Union) Bremen, City Gallery, Bremen
- Group Concrete, Museum Abtei Liesborn
- Group Concrete, Gallery in historical City Hall, Andernach
1998 TOPOI Art Project Schwachhausen, Focke Museum, Bremen
- Untitled, City Gallery, Bremen
1997 Actual Art from Bremen, Academy Gallery Sztuk, Poland
1997 FARBE RAUM BEWEGUNG, City gallery in Buntentor, Bremen
1994 Germen Art Price, Volks-und Raiffeisen Bank, Art House, Munchen
1991 Light House, Artist Symposium, Bremen