Outside - Inside

-== Extension of the exhibition until 19/02/2021 ==-

Due to the current situation, the exhibition has been extended until 19 February 2021.
The Artist talk with Aruna Samivelu and Johannes von Stumm on the occasion of the extension of the exhibition until 19.2. finds instead on 7 Jan. 2021 19:00h

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Dear friends of the ROOT Gallery,

I cordially invite you and your friends to the ZOOM vernissage of the exhibition "Outside - Inside" with pictures of concrete painting by Aruna Samivelu and the latest sculptures "Immaterial Figures" by Johannes von Stumm.

ZOOM vernissage on Thursday, 5 November at 8 pm
Exhibition duration: 6.11. - 18.12.2020
Opening hoursTue, Thu, Fri 8.30 am - 12.30 pm and Tue, Thu 1.30 pm - 5.30 pm

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Florentine Haeusgen writes about Johannes von StummIn this context, the material glass has a special function: although it is equivalent to steel and granite and therefore usually takes up roughly the same amount of space, in contrast to the solid appearance of stone and metal, transparent glass symbolises fragility. It also describes a space that does not restrict the viewer's view, but remains more or less transparent and includes the places behind it. Furthermore, the blown glass has an intermediate position, as it were, between dense matter and air. In this respect, too, it can be seen as an allusion to immateriality, i.e. the complete dissolution of form. According to the artist, the glass visualises an approach to boundlessness."
The "immaterial figures" are a new addition to his oeuvre. These are sculptures that incorporate the "void", i.e. the merely delimited space, into the figure. In Johannes von Stumm's work, the cast metal mould completely or partially encloses a three-dimensional space, which - although actually "only air" - becomes part of the sculpture. In this way, he has ultimately found his very own way of replacing the glass with a "nothing" and making boundlessness and transparency visible in three dimensions. 

VITA Johannes von Stumm
born 1959 in Munich | lives and works since 1995 in South Fawley, Wantage, Oxfordshire, Great Britain | 1984-89 studied sculpture at the Akademie der Künste Munich | 1997 member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors | 1999 lectureship at the New Greenham Common Arts Centre | 1999 member of the Oxford Art Society | guest lectureship Dartington / England for Contemporary Glass Society | 2003 founding member of Sculpture Network | 2004 Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors |
2004 Trustee of the Royal British Society of Sculptors | 2004 Guest Lecture at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth | 2005 Guest Lecture at Christ Church University Canterbury | 2006 Guest Lecture at Imperial College London | 2007 Guest Lecture at Central St Martin's London | 2012 President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors | 2014 President of the Oxford Art Society | Numerous solo and group exhibitions and trade fair presentations in the UK, Germany, Austria, Canada, China, Japan, Belgium, India, Switzerland, Netherlands, USA //
Prizes: 2015 Residency in Kyoto | 2015 Sculture - Symposium in Changsha, China
Public acquisitions: Buscot Park, Private and National Trust | Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge | Slater Centre, New Greenham | Stad Newbury/Berkshier | Cushman &
Wakefield, Prudential Corpration Plc and Accel VentureCapital | Prior's Court School // Participation in trade fairs: 2018 and 2021 art KARLSRUHE, Galerie ROOT

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 Aruna Samivelu
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 "100 € 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 |

Best regards, Ute Wöllmann

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