ROOT on the road

Galerie ROOT is launching a new project "Galerie ROOT on the road":
Temporary and mobile exhibitions in a car trailer, in some cases also exhibition projects specially designed for this trailer, which we use for travelling overland.

The ROOT artists Juliane von Arnim, Marita Czepa and Ute Wöllmann will kick things off on 20 July, 21 July and 22 July by painting plein-air and on site along the 115 km long planned power line from the Neuenhagen substation (Märkisch-Oderland) to the Bertikow substation (Uckermark). The exact gps data, where you can find us, as well as further information on this project, will soon be available on the website http://root-on-the-road.de.
All works created on site will be exhibited immediately in the trailer!

The route is due to the artistic approach of Marita Czepa, who often paints in and in front of places that are about to undergo drastic changes as a result of human activity.
Marita Czepa is concerned with the preservation of nature and with it the preservation of human existence on this earth. In her works, she thematises the threat posed to nature by mankind. As a consequence of this attitude, she has not bought any paper or other painting surfaces in the past six months, but has worked her beguiling realistic drawings and colourful watercolours exclusively on found or used materials: Paper bags, torn posters, cardboard boxes found on the street, old and used envelopes, old index cards, etc. This combination has resulted in haunting works that are characterised above all by their artistic virtuosity.

In the course of this debate and the special thematic positioning of Marita Czepa, the Akademie für Malerei Berlin has registered its public presentation on Friday, 3 July at 8 pm as a venue for the Plastic Bag Free Day:
On 3 July 2015, International Plastic Bag Free Day, we are calling on everyone to shop only with reusable bags and to take part in campaigns against single-use plastic bags.

Juliane von Arnim's work is also predominantly dedicated to nature in the form of landscape paintings or views of plants and insects. She traces the unusual in the familiar, which manifests itself in strange colour and light moods. The image details and lighting of the rural scenarios appear unusual, especially as her attention is focussed on the special buildings and farmsteads in Brandenburg and the Uckermark, which convey a peculiar atmosphere of tense tranquillity.

Ute Wöllmann transfers structures in nature into painterly and graphic structures. She is interested in the emotional excitement that observing nature can trigger in people. Inconspicuous starting points in nature, such as the view of undergrowth and meadows, are intended to achieve a similar level of excitement in the viewer through the beauty of the painting as occurs, for example, when watching sunsets.
Ingeborg Bachmann provides her with similar impulses in her poems, as she uses observations of nature in her work to describe or create emotions.