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Artist Statement:
I photograph "sea-worn
stories" in the weathered and
worn paint on the sides of
ships at sea. With my camera
I capture distressed painted
steel, thus presenting an
intimate look at what most
people not only never see, but
generally are not even aware
of. With that I reveal ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Galeria Arte Consult, Panama
City, Republic of Panama, 8
works, October 2007 - current
Silkart Gallery, Walnut Creek,
California, Solo Exhibition,
25 works, December 2006 - Jan
2007
Inter-Art Museum, (Juried
Group), 3 works, Tokyo, Japan,
November 2006 - January 2007
RiverSea Gallery, Astoria,
Oregon, 20 works, Group Show,
October 2006
Hapag ...
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Artist Galleries:
Pacific Center for
Photographic Arts, P.O. Box
8508, Emeryville, CA
94662-8508, Phone (510)
428-9169
Andreas Stucken, Stucken Art
Consulting, Kunstberatung und
Projekte, Theodor-Heuss-Str. 9
D-86551 Aichach, Fon: +49
(0)8251 / 871630, Fax: +49
(0)8251 / 871638,
www.stucken.com
Period Gallery, 8001 Leo Lane,
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Collections:
TUI, corporate offices,
Hannover, Germany
Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg
Germany
Uebersee Museum, Bremen,
Germany
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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3/25/2004
THE ART OF SHIP'S SIDES:
An Essay by Val Stokes, Long Island, NY
Every ship’s hull tells a story – a painted one, that reveals a narrative in the abstract. Seaman and artist Klaus Lange focuses his camera on this wonderful narrative. The ship’s sea-worn hull, like a painted canvas, is the product of much life spent, much time passed, and much potential beauty found in the interim. It is a most poetic container of time and record that Lange’s camera brings into focus. His photographic images find the sublime in physical struggle and natural beauty. In such a way, his work references modernist abstraction. Yet, his work is a photographic representation of paint -- optically not unlike a Jules Olitski or Clifford Still painting. Lange’s work delicately transforms ships’ water-worn, sea-affected finish, into a heroic skin of painted abstraction. In essence, he finds and highlights intriguing moments of abstraction at sea. In this way his work is quite traditional, yet Lange’s unique subject matter – photographed paint, makes his work quite radical as well. Lange’s photographs are a simultaneous indulgence in, and criticism of, painterly expression. It is a rethinking of painting and photography’s visual mechanics. He offers a new way to see abstract painting, and simultaneously, a new way to see photography. Lange puts forth a new type of painting meta-narrative – the story of nature diminishing materiality, told through abstract photography. Quite amazing are the inventive and seemingly purposeful forms that the sea has worn onto certain ships. Lange’s abstraction is a thoughtful look at these stunning formations. Once mounted onto canvas, the photographic element of Lange’s work becomes less apparent. What initially appears to be a painting, upon second look is seen as a photographic Giclee print. The mounting and presentation of these photographs is a poignant commentary on painting, whereby the ship’s sea-worn story is told like that of an abstract expressionist’s.
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