Inge Gutbrod — take a bath in my light-soaked bodies, Vol. 3

In the organizer's words:

For many years, Inge Gutbrod has been working with wax as a material, exploring its expressive possibilities in a variety of ways. By choosing this material, which is rare in the visual arts, and deciding to place it at the center of her artistic approach, Inge Gutbrod has achieved a unique position. In addition to experimenting with form and color, the Fürth-based artist also focuses on the translucency of this sensual material. In this way, she explores the translucency and the associated changeability of wax in an ongoing series of new works. The spectrum of her artistic creations ranges from delicate white-on-white works on paper to illuminated wax cylinders of rich color that bathe the entire room in colored light. An essential aspect of Inge Gutbrod's work is the way she works with the respective exhibition space and its architectural conditions. New works or installations, which she develops especially for this purpose, usually aim to create a mood-changing effect that mutes the coolness and coolness of a white cube and instead creates an atmosphere of lightness, warmth and relaxation. The sensual and poetic potential unfolds in the interplay between the material and its properties, which Inge Gutbrod elicits from it. It appears discreetly in the white works and is revealed in full opulence in the colored and illuminated works. "take a bath in my light-soaked bodies, Vol. 3" is the third stop on Inge Gutbrod's exhibition tour after the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt and the Neue Galerie Landshut. The artist is also showing new works at the kunst galerie fürth and has developed a spatial installation that plays with the special architectural features of the gallery space in a humorous refraction and at the same time poetically rededicates it. Inge Gutbrod (*1963 in Nuremberg) studied painting at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts and was a master student of Prof. Werner Knaupp. Her work has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships in Germany and abroad. In 2022, she received the Grand Culture Prize of the City of Fürth in recognition of her extensive artistic work.