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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions 2008
Jan.01 - Jan.31 "Christmas
Cards",Lviv Museum History of
Religion
Lviv, Ukraine
Feb.09 - Mar.22 "Project Kunst
fuer Bildung", Municipal
Library,
Igel, Germany
(Group)
Mar.29 - Apr.20 " Int.
Miniprint Exhibition",
Roennebaeks Holm
Culture
Centre, Naestved, Denmark
(Group)
Mar.29 - Apr.30 "Utopia of
Space", Kyrgyz ...
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Artist Statement for Johannes Gerard
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I studied at the School of Print and Design, Cologne, Germany and at the Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland.
In the past I spent part of my life in countries such as Germany, Ireland, Spain, Argentina,
Australia and Taiwan before I settle down in the Netherlands.
All these different cultures had a important influence in my art career and the further development of my work.
My oeuvre includes painting, graphic arts, photography and in the past also sculpting.
At the beginning of my art career I focus on sculpting, print making and photography.
Between 1994 and 2001 I emphasize alone on painting. However in the last 5 years
the graphic arts and photography start to play again important roll beside painting
From the start of my art career I only worked figurative. About 1993, after several
study journeys to Japan, the Fijiˇ¦s and Australia specially my painting start to get more
abstract touch. In my graphics arts and photographic the change was a bit less radical. Here
half of work is abstract and the other half is still figurative
In 2001 after a journey to Finland and Estonia my painting style became radical abstract over night.
The ideaˇ¦s and the motives are based on the mystics of Japanese Gardens and here by specially emphasize on Zen gardens.
The forms, lines , colors, black and white, up and down. have to create a balance within
the painting. By each work itˇ¦s different however itˇ¦s always based on the same idea and principal. The work takes shape through a gradual process of layering and accord.
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