Art fair C.A.R. Contemporaray.Art.Ruhr

The ROOT Gallery at the art fair C.A.R. Contemporary.Art.Ruhr
with: Aruna Samivelu, Ulrike Schmelter, Ilka Schneider
Zollverein World Heritage Site, Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181, 45309 Essen
Hall 12, Building A 12, 1st floor
Attention: Prior registration for the visitor timeslots!

We invite you to the art fair C.A.R - Contemporary Art Ruhr in Essen:

The organisers have developed a concept with the cultural office and the Zeche Zollverein to protect all interested parties so that this art fair can take place, which we are very pleased about.There is no opening but time slots with prior registration so that there are no waiting times. Here is more information about the programme and tickets http://contemporaryartruhr.de/

Aruna Samivelu comes from a subtle colour field painting in which she divides her pictures into horizontal stripes of different widths and layers the colours transparently on top of each other. She created a subtle depth of colour space through both the choice of colours and the layering. So far so good - but already tried and tested. In part, however, the underpainting was very dynamic, against which the stripes fought in the very last colour application, or rather, this underpainting was still present: a single stripe viewed from right to left showed colour modulations. What at first glance appeared to be a strict concept was realised in a very painterly way on closer inspection. In a further step, verticals then crossed the horizontals, deepening the spatial effect. However, the pictorial concepts only became more unique through a further step, in which they slipped from the horizontal into different angles. One part ran parallel at an angle, but there were breakouts under the parallel slopes, which increased the tension: as a result, the spaces in between were no longer the same size, new spaces opened up, which Aruna Samivelu influenced in their effect with the choice of colour and the colour gradient and explored their balance in relation to each other. Sharp and blurred lines were added to the colour modulations and colour layering. The oblique lines mean that they meet somewhere in the course of the imaginary lines at a point outside the picture, and here we encounter the means of perspective spatial representation, especially if this point is within the picture. In Aruna Samivelu's latest pictures, the impression of perspective space and the depth of colour space now reinforce each other and are taken to extremes. She no longer achieves this through countless layers of paint, but through a clear composition with sharp lines and decidedly fine colour modulations, placed blurs or completely unpainted open spaces. These paintings are directed by a sensitive and intellectually sharp mind that explores the realm of concrete art in a new way.
VITA
Born 1964 in Coimbatore/India | Studied chemistry and German studies | Studied painting at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin, class of Ute Wöllmann | Graduated in 2019 and appointed master student of Ute Wöllmann | Lives and works in Berlin
EXHIBITIONS
2020 "Ausserhalb - Innerhalb" together with Johannes von Stumm, Galerie ROOT, Berlin | 2020 "!00 € Kiezhelfer", Galerie ROOT Berlin | Art fair C.A.R., Galerie ROOT, Berlin | 2019 Public presentation at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin for graduation | 2017 Public presentation at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin for admission to the Master's programme | 2016 Group exhibition "Alles fließt", Akademie für Malerei Berlin | 2016 Aviskar, Kolkata India, curated by Dr. Manas Roy | 2015 Group exhibition "Rund" at Kunstraum F200, Berlin, curated by Peter Lindenberg | 2015 Public presentation at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin for admission to the main study programme | 2014 Aviskar, Kolkata India; curated by Dr Manas Roy | www.arunasamivelu.net | aruna.samivelu@googlemail.com

The pictures from Ilka Schneider do not deny their origins in East Asian painting. In fact, she had lessons with two Chinese painters in Taiwan from 2005 to 2006 and then took calligraphy lessons for seven years. On this foundation, Ilka Schneider has built up her own pictorial cosmos, which is bursting with inventiveness. What has remained is her love of liquid black colour, the elongated format and the gesture. Other materials, such as silk and stone paper, have replaced the Chinese thin rice paper. In this cosmos, we can rediscover a virtuoso draughtswoman who knows how to counter every black brushstroke with a confident yet sensitive drawn line, who invents one figure after another, telling stories about stories. Whereas in the past it was actually Chinese characters that told their story to those who could decipher their meaning, today they are her own pictorial symbols of an abstract and at the same time surreal narrative pictorial system, which everyone around the world can make their own sense of. Black on white. Access is granted to all those who look at the picture and immerse themselves in its contemplation. And so Ilka Schneider's pictures invite us to dialogue with them. You want to be able to read them, the pictures from a thousand and one nights. Good stories have always won!

VITA
2019 Appointed master student of Ute Wöllmann | 2019 Exchange scholarship with the Freie Akademie der bildenden Künste Kärnten | 2014-2019 Studied at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin | 2006-2013 Calligraphy lessons with Su Chungui, Berlin | 2005-2006 Lessons with the painters Feng Xianmin and Li Shanqing, Tainan/Taiwan | lives and works in Berlin and Reichenow
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Public presentation at the end of the master's programme, Academy of Painting Berlin | 2017 Public presentation at the end of the main study programme, Academy of Painting Berlin | 2015 Public presentation at the end of the basic study programme, Academy of Painting Berlin | 2013 "Differences", Bundeswehr University Munich | 2013 "wind-fang", gallery of the art association "Treffpunkt Kunst", Ottobrunn | 2009 "allerleischwarz", gallery of the art association "Treffpunkt Kunst", Ottobrunn
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Art fair C.A.R., Galerie ROOT Berlin | 2020 "!00 € Kiezhelfer", Galerie ROOT Berlin | 2019 "Sex und so", Akademie für Malerei Berlin | 2019 Galerie der Berufsvereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreich, Landesverband Kärnten (BV- Galerie), Klagenfurt | 2019 "Tierisch gut", Akademie für Malerei Berlin | 2018 "transformArt", Transformatorenwerk Oberschöneweide Berlin | 2018 "Überfluss - alles fließt", Akademie für Malerei Berlin

Ulrike Schmelter paints the sky, clouds and water - all fleeting substances that present themselves differently every second. She usually paints the water with a view from above. She takes us up into the air, as if we were looking out of space. You can feel the depth of the water. The painted air is present. The swirls in the water resemble the swirls of the clouds. A hybrid world where you don't know exactly what you are looking at: is it waves, water, sand, earth, mountains, fog, mist? A strange world opens up before us. The view into a supposedly familiar sky shows us a different sky. Ulrike Schmelter's pictures have something of the creation myth about them - this is what it might have looked like when it became light! Her pictures are evocative and full of allure. They reveal to us a light painting of a substance that we call air and water, but that is not how we know it. We are shown other aggregate states of our world. You have to achieve that with what is actually a classical landscape painting! She plays with light with virtuosity and creates deep atmospheric spaces with subtle colour tensions. Masterly!

VITA
Ulrike Schmelter lives and works in Berlin and Denia (Valencia)
2013-2018 Studied painting at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin with Ute Wöllmann |
2018 Completion of studies, appointed master student of Ute Wöllmann
EXHIBITIONS
2020 "100 € Kiezhelfer", Gallery ROOT Berlin | 2020 Art fairs C.A.R. and art KARLSRUHE, Gallery ROOT Berlin | 2018 Public presentation at the end of the Master's programme, Academy of Painting
Berlin | 2017 Group exhibition "Abundance - Everything flows" by lecturers, graduates
and students of the Akademie für Malerei Berlin | 2017 Solo exhibition "Fascination of the
Moments: Water and Clouds", Aagaard-Galerie Berlin-Hermsdorf | 2017 Group exhibition "15th Free North Berlin Art Exhibition", Berlin | 2016 Public presentation for admission to the Master's programme, Academy of Painting Berlin | 2016 Student exhibition at the Academy of Painting Berlin | 2015 Student exhibition at the Academy of Painting Berlin | 2013 Public presentation for admission to the main study programme, Academy of Painting Berlin