Colour in free layers

Regine Jankowski, acrylic collages
Harald Pompl, sculptures made from resin discs

Vernissage | Thursday, 17.3.2016 at 7 pm
Exhibition duration | 18.3. - 8.5.2016
Ute Wöllmann, gallery owner, Berlin, will introduce the exhibition

Artist talk | Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 1 pm | Harald Pompl with Ute Wöllmann
Artist talk | Saturday, 9 April 2016 at 1 pm | Regine Jankowski with Ute Wöllmann

Both artists focus on colour in space, create colour spaces and interact with the real space, from the painting to the relief to the sculpture, which they also charge emotionally with the freely layered colours. To achieve this, they work with coloured patches. They produce solitary modules with which they create their works. Harald Pompl initially creates coloured resin discs, which he stacks to form sculptures. Regine Jankowski creates solitary patches of colour, which she collages in her paintings. The combination of these artists working with unusual materials gives rise to a fascinating dialogue about the meaning and purpose of colour stains and their location in space.
Regine Jankowski pours acrylic colours onto plastic film in a first operation. The colours spread independently and dry in the resulting puddle and spot shape. The acrylic colour does not bond with the smooth plastic film, but can be completely detached from the carrier as a compact form. These solitary patches of colour form the basis for Regine Jankowski's paintings. She applies the colour to the picture in this form, just as other painters do with a brush. Her paintings are therefore collages in the best sense of the word. She creates a universe of stains in every colour and consistency, impasto, poured, transparent, compact, filled.
Above all, Regine Jankowski has adopted the ability of acrylic paint to be detached from its surface and to take on a sculptural character through plastic moulding for her paintings. This reinforces the spatial colour effect of her paintings. She layers the colours on top of each other with virtuosity, creating surface reliefs that allow the abstract colour space to grow into the actual space as a body of colour. The picture as a whole is a single rhythmic colour sound, pulsating with colour surfaces and playing with the great spatial depth effect. The acrylic colours are supported in places by another modern colour protagonist, namely spray paint, which enhances the spatial effect of the pictures through the blurring of the colour mist.
Regine Jankowskiborn in Berlin, studied musicology, music education and violin in Berlin and Paris after graduating from high school, studied painting at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin from 2011 to 2016 and is a master student of Ute Wöllmann. She lives and works in Berlin.

Harald Pompl casts discs from coloured synthetic resin dyed with pigments, which are then cut, chipped or ground into the desired shape. He stacks these individual discs on a central axis to form impressive objects and steles or fuses them back together to form a solid column. The interplay of daylight or artificial light in the overlapping coloured discs creates a wealth of unusual colour combinations and luminous colour reflections in the room.
Harald Pomplborn in Nuremberg in 1952, studied sculpture at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts from 1975 - 81, graduating as a master student, followed by a study visit to Italy in 1981, Bavarian State Scholarship for the Salzburg Summer Academy in 1982, 1985 - 87 he was assistant for sculpture at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts, since 2010 he has been a drummer in the "art & jazztrio". Harald Pompl lives and works in Frankfurt/Main and in Altdorf near Nuremberg.
1987 Design of the square in front of the Ansbach labour office | 2000-2007 Design of four roundabouts for the town of Konz/Mosel | 2001 Kienbaum Collection, Cologne | 2003 Wall designs for the Dominican monastery in Frankfurt/M. | 2004 Acquisition by the State Chancellery Wiesbaden | 2009 Acquisition by the art collection of SCHUFA Holding AG, Wiesbaden | 2010 Acquisition of two sculptures by the Acquisition Commission of the Federal Republic of Germany | 2012 "Buntes Völkchen", square design Altdorf near Nuremberg | 2014 Collection of SEB Asset Management Frankfurt/M.

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