Art|Unlimited
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130 |Art Unlimited<br />
GÜNTER UMBERG<br />
Title | Territorium 17, 2012, 2012<br />
Media |Poliment, pigment, and dammar on wood, wooden ramp; overall dimensions:<br />
approx.400x1250 x875cm, ramp: 160x850 x300cm<br />
Artist |Günter Umberg, *1942, Bonn, Germany<br />
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany, and Corberon, France<br />
Galleries | nächst St.Stephan<br />
Mobile +43 664 3388173<br />
Galerie nächst St.Stephan<br />
Rosemarie Schwarzwälder<br />
AT -1010 Wien |Grünangergasse 1/2<br />
Phone +43 15121266 -0 |Fax +43 15134307<br />
galerie@schwarzwaelder.at |www.schwarzwaelder.at<br />
Director |Rosemarie Schwarzwälder<br />
Nordenhake<br />
Mobile +49 176 18866680, +49 176 18866682<br />
Galerie Nordenhake<br />
DE-10969 Berlin |Lindenstrasse 34<br />
Phone +49 30 2061483 |Fax +49 3020614848<br />
berlin@nordenhake.com |www.nordenhake.com<br />
Directors |Claes Nordenhake, Gyonata Bonvicini<br />
Riis<br />
Mobile +47 911 81537, +47 975 97245<br />
Galleri Riis<br />
NO -0250 Oslo |Filipstadveien 5<br />
Phone +47 22 944040 |Fax +47 22944041<br />
info@galleririis.com |www.galleririis.com<br />
Directors |Espen Ryvarden, Kristin Elisabeth Bråten<br />
Artwork Description |The project for Art Unlimited is the seventeenth inUmberg’s series ofinstallations<br />
titled Territorium (territory). By installing his paintings in carefully arranged<br />
groups and shaping the viewer’s paths of approach and bodily movement, the<br />
artist creates aspecific space for sensual experience, opening up aclose dialogue<br />
between the paintings themselves, the room, and the viewer.<br />
Günter Umberg works with pure, dry pigment. The work isentirely about the<br />
paint and not about illusion. Territorium 17, 2012 comprises 21works ofdifferent<br />
sizes and in various shades of green and black as well asaneight-meter<br />
long oversized ramp. The ramp obstructs the view of the paintings but at the<br />
same time guides it. Prevented bythe ramp from getting close toany single work,<br />
it is difficult for the viewer toperceive the dense, deep, non-figurative surfaces<br />
of the paintings without experiencing them inrelation to each other. Inturn, the<br />
surfaces of the works seem to recede and emerge from the wall –amovement<br />
evoked by differing distances from the wall.<br />
Territorium 17, 2012, 2012
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