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2.12.2011-23.12.2011 paris sud
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2.2.2012- 15.2.2012 espace l.
feuillage montpellier/lunel...
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Artist Statement for Jorg Bogumil
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The German artist Jorg Bogumil was born in 1966 in Bremen. At the beginning of the 1990s he decides to study art in Paris at the “Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts of Cergy/Pointoise. He takes advantage of his studies at the Beaux-Arts to revisit his native Germany and other European countries and report pictorial ideas. This approach of traveling and bringing back pictorial ideas will now be a main point in his work.
Freshly graduated (DNSAP) in fine arts of the Beaux-arts Cergy in 1998 he decided to go to live in Saõ paulo, Brazil, in one of the largest cities of the world. He then discovers an original and formal language totally different from the Western model. He remains for 5 years in South America and intensifies his artistic research in creating a ratio between his work and the place he lives.
In walking in towns, landscapes, surroundings he records images, particles of objects, sounds, experiences, articles, notes... he transforms them into drawings, doodles, books, photomontages.....at his atelier. Then translates them by splitting up the essential graphical and abstract forms onto large canvases. Resolutely turned towards painting Jorg Bogumil creates subjective mappings of experiences in the globalised world. It is the translation of their current perception.
In late 2003 he decides to come back to Europe where he moved to Montpellier France. The way back is as difficult as at the outset to the previously unknown life and again a cultural shock. Paintings become more frozen and uncertain than, explosive and moving.
Jorg Bogumil will reside until 2007 in Montpellier before setting out again to live and to work in South America. He settles in Quito in the Ecuadorian Andes. He will profit from it during 2 years to furrow the landscapes and universes between Colombia and Chile. He travels from the Pacific to the Amazon to meet the old cultures and one of the largest biodiversities in the world.
This period is marked towards a return of drawing in his work. At this time the drawings are for him a complementary and independent activity than painting because these drawings are never brought on a canvas, or sometimes a raw idea of the drawing or certain details.
His artistic activity is an interior walk in unknown or foreseen places. It opens ways of possible, new barriers to cross in order to apprehend the world in which we live.
In 2009 Jorg Bogumil returned back to Montpellier and took again the brushes and the large canvases. These canvases are composed of broad shapes of explosive colors, with abrupt, undulating and watery forms. Unstable, whirling, concentric forms creating optical tensions.
Anxious to return account of the reality of the globalized world in relation to the alive one, his paintings affirm its anchoring in social, geographical and anthropological realities of the contemporary world. They refer to reality but not to the visible one.
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Since the end of summer 2010 he changed his approach radically to is artistic activities by varying the sizes of the canvases and the tools used to paint. He now uses only black and white colours and paints with ketchup bottles. By limiting the process to his essentials he mirrors the industrial and simplified world of production and the way it reflects part of our day to day life.
GIO Montpellier 2010
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