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Indepth Arts News:
"From Germany : Niklas Klotz and Karsten Kraft"
2011-03-10 until 2011-04-23
Raandesk Gallery
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
Raandesk Gallery is pleased to announce our guest artists from jens fehring gallery in Frankfurt, Germany. Raandesk Gallery regularly seeks international collaborations that extend the gallery's reach in the global art world and allow its collectors and customers to have access to recent developments from outside the US besides its portfolio artists. The exhibition of artworks by Niklas Klotz and Karsten Kraft will take place from March 10 through April 23 with its opening on Thursday, March 10 from 7 - 9 PM
Niklas Klotz and Karsten Kraft are two promising German artists, each with their own, very different concepts and approaches yet still producing results that harmonize aesthetically, overlap each other on occasions, and seem to mutually complement each other.
Following his training as a sculptor, Niklas Klotz focused his efforts, above all, on creating and animating avatars as digital sculptures. His focus on the existing digital content in this field brought him into contact with the first completely digitalized human being - an American convict - who, after his execution, was frozen, cut into slices and photographed before being electronically compiled into a human model. Based on the data set that was available on the Internet, he used a rapid prototyping method to create the death mask of the executed convict and, in doing so, brought part of the body back into material being. In his efforts to consistently improve on this concept, Klotz creates aluminum sculptures and reliefs made of marble, wood and glass eyes, which are based on digitally generated faces and bodies. He recently created a life-sized choirboy in aluminum. The statue is colored in high-tech paint and forms part of a monument that Klotz redesigned and which now stands in front of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden.
Karsten Kraft is based in the long tradition of monochrome painting. Although his works also repeatedly feature ethereal, mostly floating creatures, his artistic quest and inspiration focus on the color black. For Kraft, black is the ultimate common denominator of all colors and unites all of their constitutive emotions. The result is too much for eyes to cope with, as it were, more than the observer can perceive. His pictures, which usually start with the widest range of base colors that evolve into deep black areas, gradually draw the observer's attention to darkness. After just a brief moment, the black starts to fade into the background, encouraging a much more intensive perception of color. In a way the non-color paves the way to color.
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