Untitled - lorch + seidel contemporary
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16.08.2012<br />
www.berlin-artparasites.com<br />
PRESSESPIEGEL 2012<br />
PING PONG BALLS AND MYTHICAL ART DE<br />
Berlin Art Parasites online<br />
Focus Academy at Preview Berlin: Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy<br />
PING PONG BALLS AND MYTHICAL ART<br />
Introducing the four art students of Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy who will be<br />
taking part in Preview Berlin Art Fair. Fresh art makes for fun times!<br />
Staying in line with their idea to support emerging artists, the Preview Berlin Art<br />
Fair has started an initiative called „Focus Academy“ to allow art students into the<br />
world of art markets and fairs. Partnering up with some of the top art academies<br />
of Germany, the event during their fair at Tempelhof Airport will have a program<br />
especially designed to help art students learn the ins and outs of what it means to<br />
make a living off of their art. One of the chosen art universities is the Burg Giebichenstein<br />
Art Academy, whose art program has nearly 100 years of tradition. Their<br />
goal has been to encourage their students to develop visionary thinking as well as<br />
professional practical skills.<br />
Giebichenstein has selected their most promising student to represent their academy<br />
at Preview Berlin this year. This group of four young artists are preparing for Preview<br />
Berlin and readying their works of various techniques and materials: sculpture, glass<br />
objects, and even videos…So what do these fresh minds have prepared for the<br />
fair?<br />
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Exploring the boundaries between stillness and movement, Claus Stoermer brings<br />
the work „PingPong.“ The artist uses animated objects and put them as ‘‘actors’’<br />
for his videos. The movement of ping pong balls might be well known by one‘s own<br />
experience, but the illusion of this new media reality expire and construct a new<br />
world of experience. At the other end of the art spectrum, fellow art student, Sara<br />
Moebius will be presenting large-scale charcoal drawings that highlight forests as<br />
an important mythical motif within German Culture.<br />
Following along the mythical theme, Wilhelm Frederking has built a glass wall<br />
installation using the effect of reverse glass painting in transparent spheres he<br />
was able to create an effect that somehow looks as though mythical creatures are<br />
trapped inside the glass. Inspired by the six-armed Indian god Shiva, his exhibition<br />
will exude the charm of an oriental fairy tale. Another art student, Paul Werner,<br />
is engaged in the „aesthetics of ugliness.“ In combination with the free forms,<br />
materials and other animal specimens, he combines the bizarre and the surreal. His<br />
series „butterfly boxes“ and „specimens in glass“ show fascinating and unknown<br />
creatures, questioning the traditional concepts of beauty.<br />
So many fresh ideas bouncing all over the place! Even ping pong balls. The Focus<br />
Academy sounds like it is deserving of a visit! Don‘t forget that you can win tickets<br />
by joining our Artparasites at Preview Berlin facebook group!<br />
Tempelhof Airport Preview Berlin Art Fair. September 13th - 16th 2012
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