splashes & dots

Eva Erbacher - Painting
Harald Pompl - Sculptures
Vernissage | Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 7 pm
The artist will be present.
Ute Wöllmann will give an introduction to the exhibition. Exhibition duration | 16 March - 4 May 2018
Artist talks:
Harald Pompl in dialogue with Ute Wöllmann on Friday, 16 March 2018 at 6 pm.
Eva Erbacher in dialogue with Ute Wöllmann on Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 7 pm.

The connecting element between these two artists is the colour stain and its form. The title of the exhibition "splashes and dots" shows the tension between gestural splashes of colour and paint applied with great verve on canvas and the dot in its various forms. With Harald Pompl the dots are cast from synthetic resin coloured with pigments into round discs. Harald Pompl's "dots" can be placed anywhere on the walls, ceilings and floors of the exhibition space. The dialogue with the moving "splashes" on the canvases of Eva Erbacher is exciting and multifaceted. In the centre of the exhibition space, Harald Pompl's spatial sculpture "splashes" responds to Eva Erbacher's paintings with a spatial fragmentation of his coloured resin discs. She in turn shows a two-dimensional and transparent-delicate variation of the "dots" in the miniature paintings with ink on coloured Plexiglas.

Eva Erbacher's paintings are characterised by conscious decisions for or against certain painterly processes, which she brings to bear. The forms emerge organically from the painting process. In her paintings, a precisely defined gesture determines the application of paint, be it as vertical strokes, broad bands of lines or as patches of colour applied with great verve, at the edges of which the paint splashes to the side. The permanent repetition of the same action, which leads to painterly condensation over many layers of colour, is a decisive characteristic of her paintings. Despite the many layers, the impression of lightness and transparency remains. She is interested in bringing about floating states of individual patches and areas of colour and creating a fragile spatial effect that is held in place by the colour and layered architecture of the painting.
The weeks-long process of creation, which lays layer upon layer of colour, gesture upon gesture, destroying the old in favour of the new, only ever reveals one moment in time. The painting as we see it is the end product of many layers and a conscious decision for this one moment.
Harald Pompl casts discs from coloured synthetic resin, which are then cut, chipped or polished into the desired shape and assembled or staged in various sculptural concepts. He stacks these individual discs on a central axis to form impressive object bodies and steles or fuses them together again to form a solid column. This exhibition focuses on the "dots" series of works, individual coloured discs that are placed at some distance from the wall and present their form and colour in front of it.

Vita Eva Erbacher: born in Marburg an der Lahn | lives in Berlin since 2012 | previously lived in Luxembourg for almost 30 years | 2007- 12 Academy of Painting Berlin with graduation as a master student of Ute Wöllmann | since 2010 member of the Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg (CAL) | 2012 three-month residency scholarship from the State of Luxembourg at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Fair participations (selection): 2014 ART KARLSRUHE (ROOT) | 2013 ART.FAIR Cologne (ROOT at Savignyplatz) | 2011 Munich Contempo, Cutlog Paris, Berliner Liste (ROOT at Savignyplatz) | 2009 Art International Zurich (Akademie für Malerei, Berlin) | 2007 Art.metz 7
Exhibitions (selection): 2014 gold.gelb (solo exhibition, ROOT am Savignyplatz) | 2013 velivoli - die kunst abzuheben (solo exhibition, ROOT am Savignyplatz) | 2012 Chateau de Bourglinster, Luxembourg (LAC), Favourites + Weiterbilder (ROOT am Savignyplatz) | 2011 alles schwebt und pieces of heaven (solo exhibitions, ROOT am Savignyplatz), bedeckt mit Chancen auf Rot! (ROOT at Savignyplatz), Chateau de Bourglinster (LAC), Luxembourg, Salon CAL, Luxembourg
Acquisition of works by the Federal Foreign Office in Luxembourg and Berlin

Vita Harald Pompl: born in Nuremberg | lives and works in Frankfurt/Main and in Altdorf b. Nuremberg | studied sculpture at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts from 1975-81, graduated as a master student | 1981 followed by a study visit to Italy | 1982 Bavarian State Scholarship for the Salzburg Summer Academy | 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 has been able to place his sculptures in public spaces in various art in architecture commissions, for example in Ansbach, Altdorf near Nuremberg and Konz on the Moselle.
His works are represented in various collections, for example the Kienbaum Collection in Cologne, Schufa Holding AG in Wiesbaden and SEB Asset Management Frankfurt. Two of his sculptures have been purchased by the German Acquisition Commission.

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