Exhibition "Wandering Focus"

Dear friends of the ROOT Gallery,

I cordially invite you and your friends to the ZOOM vernissage on Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 7 pm of the exhibition "Wandering focus" with the latest paintings by Martin Conrad and sculptures made of copper wire by Bettina Lüdicke

During the ZOOM vernissage there will be an artist talk with both artists.

Bettina Lüdicke presents her catalogue "Space / Structure / Poetry", hot off the press, at the ZOOM vernissage!

To take part in the Zoom vernissage of the exhibition "Wandering Focus" on Thursday, 22 May at 8 pm, click on the following link shortly before the start of the event:

Join Zoom meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87544314566?pwd=U3dFZFRsMTBpNHRWdS96NFpuNUxzQT09
Meeting ID: 875 4431 4566

Identification code: 584865

Exhibition duration: 23 April - 21 May 2021

The exhibition "Wandering Focus" presents two artists who each juggle with modular set pieces in their work. Martin Conrad uses his extensive compendium of drawings in his pictures, around which he composes his visual worlds. Bettina Lüdicke combines lines of bronze wire to create wide, permeable spaces and forms that constantly reassemble themselves. In this way, both artists create fragile but stable structures whose components are in an energetic balance. The sculptural lines in the space and the drawn lines in the pictorial space each create a dialogue within the work and with each other in the exhibition context of "Wandering Focus".

Martin Conrad has built up his own cosmos of images over the years of his artistic career. The centrepiece is his graphic research card index of our everyday lives. He draws on this extensive compendium of drawings, which is constantly updated on a daily basis, for his pictorial compositions and masterfully juggles with the resulting constellations. He transfers his drawings into his pictures like a matrix using a transfer printing process. Like in a kaleidoscope, the things in his world view are constantly rearranged, always exciting, always surprising.

1954 born in Grünstadt/Pfalz | 1974-80 Visual Communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach a. M. | 1976-79 Fine Arts at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts Frankfurt a. M. (guest student) | 1981-88 Fine Art with Gotthard Graubner at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg // Prizes and scholarships: 1983 guest studio Künstlerhaus Rome, working stay | 1984 Eduard Bargheer Scholarship | 1988 working scholarship from the City of Hamburg | 2004 Deutscher Spielraum Prize // Teaching: since 1994 teaching assignments for painting and drawing: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, visiting professor (Pentiment) | Bildkunst Akademie Hamburg | Akademie für Malerei Berlin | Studiencolleg im Photo.Kunst.Raum.Hamburg | Kunstakademie Salzburg // Exhibitions: 2017 and 2018 art KARLSRUHE, Galerie ROOT // Exhibitions: Solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy, USA, Russia, Japan // Collections: Allianz Karlsruhe | Federal Ministries Berlin Federal Republic of Germany | Deutsche Bank Frankfurt a. M. | Eduard-Bargheer-Stiftung Hamburg | Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth | Hamburger Kunsthalle | Hypo Vereinsbank Hamburg | Kulturbehörde Hamburg | Volksfürsorge Hamburg | Mandarin Oriental Prague | Museum Schloß Wernigerode | Firmensammlungen USA

Lives and works in Hamburg

www.martinconrad.com

Bettina Lüdicke processes industrial bronze and copper wire into corporeal yet transparent spatial sculptures. The millimetre-thin, linear material is used in the artistic process by Lüdicke winding it many times, crossing it and fixing the points that form into knots. This results in almost dematerialised spatial structures, which on the one hand create the most diverse forms of "lightness" and on the other hand enclose the space. Inside and outside are thus placed in relation to each other and intertwined. A sculptural space is formed in the viewer's imagination. Colour, light and shadow expand into a network in and around the object. 

Born 1958 in Darmstadt | 1979 - 1985 studied design at Coburg University of Applied Sciences/ Münchberg department, diploma with Prof. Schröter | 1994 - 1997 studied textile design at Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Erdmann | 1999 - 2004 studio scholarship from the Berlin Senate | 2011 Technologies of Drawing Symposium, University of Huddersfield/ UK. | 2013 Jury Prize for Sculpture, LebensArt Foundation, Cologne // // Participation in exhibitions: 2020 art KARLSRUHE, Galerie ROOT // Since 1996 numerous group exhibitions in Germany, Denmark and Sweden // Solo exhibitions (selection) : 2018 Umspannwerk, with Martin Conrad , Gallery ROOT, Berlin | 2017 ...in den Raum gedacht, Galerie Petra Knopf, Munich | 2015 Innere Strukturen, Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig | 2014 Transparenz und Leichtigkeit, Galerie Petra Knopf, Munich | 2013 Lichter Raum, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen | 2012 Raumforscher, Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg, Siegburg/ Bonn | 2012 Voids and Colour, Kunstverein Ribnitz- Damgarten| 2012 Kugelbau und Farbkuben, Kunstverein Hockenheim | 2011 Kontinuum, Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig | 2011 Skulpturen aus Linien und Punkten, Galerie Netuschil, Darmstadt| 2011 Galerie an der Pinakothek der Moderne, Barbara Ruetz, Munich | 2009 Präsenz und Freiraum, Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig | 2007 Turm & Zelle, Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig | 2005 Kernkörper, Galerie ARTAe, infern*, Erfurt | 1997 Krypta/ Brandenburger Dom, Brandenburg

Lives and works in Berlin

www.bettinaluedicke.de

Until further notice, the following Coroa requirements of the State of Berlin apply:

Opening hours during the Corona pandemic by prior appointment by phone or email. It is mandatory to wear an FFP 2 mask while in the gallery spaces. We are required to record visitors electronically via the Luca app. To visit the gallery, you need a daily negative corona test. You can obtain this easily and without prior registration and without long waiting times at the test centre at the Zoologischer Garten (Hardenbergplatz), which is within walking distance of the gallery!

Here the Link to the press release.