Wood interface

Armin Göhringer - Wooden sculptures
Hanne Karch - expressive painting
ASSEMBLY
Thursday, 24 October 2019 | 7 pm
EXHIBITION DURATION
25 October-22 November 2019
KÜNSTLERGESPRÄCH with Hanne Karch and Armin Göhringer on
Friday, 25 October 2019 at 6 pm

In this exhibition, both artists present us with a new world of something very familiar: wood and forest. In Armin Göhringer's work, the material wood is taken to its absolute limits and reduced to its mass, which seeks balance with black massiveness. In Hanne Karch's work, the forest is reinterpreted with colours. The two artists are not interested in the naturalness of the wood or the forest, but rather it is the basis for the invention of artificial space. In Armin Göhringer's sculptures, the black weights seek their relationship to the space; in Hanne Karch's work, the power of colour defines a new colour space beyond the architecture of the forest.

Armin Göhringer creates his wooden sculptures exclusively with a chainsaw from
out of the compact trunk. They are a sophisticated construction of lightness and
Heavy, of carrying and loads, of standing and falling and a sophisticated system
of the masses. In doing so, he pushes the boundaries of what is statically possible. His formal language
is abstract: cubes, blocks, cuboids, rods, grids. Göhringer's virtuoso handling
with the material and its possibilities and limits is breathtaking.

The vertical framework of the tree trunks provides an anchor for the maximum colour contrasts,
with which Hanne Karch shows us the forest anew. With a sure feeling for tension in the picture, she places light and dark areas, and with an unerring sense of drama she boldly composes exciting areas of colour. Hanne Karch is a master of her medium. She has not only developed a unique, but also a very effective artistic standpoint, which cannot be overlooked even from a distance!

Armin Göhringer was born in Nordrach in 1954 and studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach a. M. from 1976 to1982. He lives in Zell am Harmersbach in the Black Forest

Awards and scholarships: 1982 Art Prize of the Rotary Club, Offenbach
a. M. | 1982 1st prize winner of the Johannes Mosbach Foundation of the Offenbach Art Academy
| 1994 Freiburg Scholarship/Götz and Moriz | 1996 Winner of the competition
for "Contemporary Art in the Ortenau" 1996 | Studio residency at the "Alter Schlachthof
" in Sigmaringen | 2001 Prize for sculpture, the city of Mörfelden-Walldorf | 2003
City artist, Spaichingen | 2018 2nd prize at the 1st Swiss Sculpture Prize Bad Ragaz

Hanne Karch attended the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim/Graphic Design and studied painting at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin under Ute Wöllmann from 2012 to 2017. She was appointed Ute Wöllmann's master student in 2017. She lives and works in Sinsheim near Heidelberg and on La Palma

Participation in trade fairs: 2019, 2018, 2017 Participation art KARLSRUHE Galerie ROOT Berlin

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