Georg Dokoupil Egun On (Buenos Dias) 2023, VG Bild Kunst Bonn 2024.
Georg Dokoupil | Venetian Bubbles 2.5
Neue Galerie and Zentrale Halle of the
Osthaus Museum Hagen, The Netherlands
30 November 2024 - 23 February 2025
Opening: Friday, November 29, 2024, 5 p.m.
The winner of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize 2024, Georg Dokoupil, is showing his solo exhibition "Venetian Bubbles 2.5" in the Neue Galerie and the Central Hall of the Osthaus Museum from November 30, 2024 to February 23, 2025. The exhibition is curated by Reiner Opoku. The artist's first large sculptural works made of glass, nine large-format paintings, works on paper and 20 small-format soap bubble pictures are on display. Since the late 1970s, the artist has been mixing soap suds with pigments and positioning the soap bubbles on a canvas coated with paint, controlling their bursting in such a way that complex organic imprints are created.
The nine new glass sculptures are an extension of his famous soap bubble pictures: he uses bottle racks (80 to 200 centimeters high) to let his soap bubbles made of colored glass "dry". The artist calls them "Homemade Venetian Bubbles" and thereby honors their national origins of various crystal glass manufacturers in the Czech Republic, his homeland.
The examination of the architecture of the museum led to an additional selection of small-format soap bubble pictures, which are on display for the first time in this exhibition. The variety of formats and techniques impressively demonstrate the endless possibilities that this type of painting offers the artist.
About the artist:
A key figure of the Neue Wilden in Germany and known for his unconventional experiments in the global art scene, Dokoupil has never allowed himself to be tied down to a specific genre or style. His entire work is characterized by a break with traditional painting techniques, a constant change of medium and a rejection of a fixed style. Since the late 1970s he has created works on canvas, often without the usual painterly means. Instead he uses unconventional materials such as candle soot, car tires, fruit, foam or soap to create his paintings. The freedom and the challenge of integrating everything that art history has to offer into his own artistic world have always been central elements of his work.
Georg Dokoupil Rohayhu, 2024, VG Bild Kunst Bonn 2024
Georg Dokoupil Homemade Venetian Bubbles, 2024, metal structure and glass, VG Bild Kunst Bonn 2024
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