DUALIS - Skulpturen und Malerei - Ivan De Menis (IT) und Catherine Seher (FR)

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Vernissage, Friday 15.1., 18-21h

Ivan De Menis was born in Treviso in 1973 and studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. De Menis covers his work surfaces generously with paint, works in thick layers and lets the highly pigmented acrylic paint run down the sides. In his series of works, he creates small-format, rectangular or square pictorial objects that develop an intense color and luminosity and give an idea of the artist's working process, as the various layers are exposed at the sides. The appeal of the works is shown in the contrast between the almost silky smooth surface and the rough side surfaces marked with streaks and drops of paint as well as flaking layers. His works can be found in numerous private and public collections in Germany and abroad.

The French painter Catherine Seher (lives and works in Paris) captures striking views, often showing figures in different landscapes, and evokes a strong sense of anonymity and isolation in her work. By capturing the essence of a particular environment but extracting from it all the elements of meaning, Seher reduces both the art of the landscape and the figure to its very element, forcing the viewer of her work to consider the mechanics by which each component of the work is created. The result is a body of work that taps into the universality of art itself, one anonymous figure or view at a time. Seher was born in Paris in 1958 and graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1983. She now lives in Paris, but has exhibited her work throughout Europe. Recent exhibitions of her work include shows at Galerie Christine Colon, Liège; Galerie GNG, Paris; Galerie Peters-Barenbrock, Berlin and Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne.