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Jörg COBLENZ
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”Summertime”
mixed media
50 cm x 50 cm
2004
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“My Girl”--------------“My Favorite
Movie Stars III”--------“Not my
Childhood”
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Teabags
Since many years the tea-bag-art of
Jörg Coblenz is a well marked contribution to exhibitions inside and outside
the country.
While on the trace search for the
reasons of this continuing interest on the individual form of artistic work we
touch the european tradition of
miniature painting. This kind of painting had it’s peak in the Rokoko and Jörg Coblenz‘ delight on the compression of sense, the delight on the rich
coated production of „miniatures“ is comparable to
it.
The detailed worked out motives on
one hand please the eye, but on the other hand the eye stumbles due to the
sovereign, flighty and even snotty called exposition. Here the miniaturization
becomes a fallen stage to the bottomless. We realize a restless, fragmentic
work, which obviously haply grabs for the visual garbage of our everyday world,
accidentally found in the throw-offs of our modern western-media industry.
Newspapers, videoprints, old picture
books, fotos etc. are aligned as starting material and in the following
transforming process they are associated to individual collages.
During this work the technics of
modern textile print and free paint overs are overlapping, the artist shows an
astonishing speediness and an unerringly intuition, somehow similar to the
tradition of japanese indian ink painting.
The creation of such kind of
products is asking for a spontaneous working method, concentrated on the
instant.
Jörg Coblenz uses this strategy for
a blueprint of mental, unconscious processes,
allowing us insights into the fragile subject, which in the western
culture is became doubtful.
The method of production cannot occlude
ist affinity with pop-art, especially Andy Warhol‘s. Serial, copy, painting over and
the use and disassociation of external products are similar artistic
approaches. While Andy Warhol produced
the banalties with delight and provocation, with Jörg Coblenz it becomes a
psychopathologic rummage in the abysms of modern soul conditions, that’s where Jörg Coblenz leaves the frame of the american
pop art long ago and finds himself in a continuous european tradition.
The predominant colourfulness of his
works is not pop-art-coloured, but earthy, fractured and very similar to the
german expressionism of the 20‘s. For sure more unequivocal parallels are
visible here than a comparison with the pop-art, just because the use of similar technic principles.
Remarkable, that much can be said
about the art of Jörg Coblenz without mentioning the material, which is
responsible for the art‘s name – the tea bags.
This speaks for the
works and they escape from the quickly formed
reproach of superficial effect tagging.
Yes, some wouldn’t even realize it, wouldn‘t they be expelled in the title. Here
we find an ironic diffraction of the cultural and culture historical
loaded art concept and the artist shows us the constant power of imagination
and presents us a surprising moment of poesy and therefor an instant of
spirited ...freedom.
Curriculum Vitae
1961 -------- Born in Bremen
(Germany)
1985-1989---Education as Art Therapist--------------------------------------------
One Man
Shows
2004---Chika Gallery,
Tokyo
2003---Interspiral Gallery, Saint-Petersburg (Russia)
2001---Medienhaus Gallery, Bremen
--------Chika Gallery, Tokyo
2000---Zwischenraum Gallery, Münster (Germany)
1999---Art Installation in Art House Munich---------i------------------
1998---Alternance Gallery, Brussels
1997---Draalpunt Gallery, Gent (Belgium)
--------"Parks in Space" video installation in Centre Bremen
--------Video installation/paintings in Hamburg (sponsored by SONY)
--------Chika Gallery, Tokyo (sponsored by the Japanese Airlines and the
Ministry of Science and Culture)
1995---Naito Gallery, Nagoya (Japan)
--------Corti Gallery, Brussels---------------------------------------i--
1993---BHW Gallery, Bremen
1990---"Kunstfruhling" Rembertis Gallery in Bremen (Germany)--------
1987---Rembertis Gallery in Bremen (Germany)-----------------------
1986---Des Westens Gallery, Bremen
1985---Chamaleon Gallery, Bremen
Group
Shows
2004---AAF NYC with
Pascal Allouard Gallery, New York
2004---Spring Affordable Art Fair with Pascal Allouard Gallery, London
2003---AAF NYC with Pascal Allouard Gallery, New York
2003---Spring Affordable Art Fair with Pascal Allouard Gallery, London
2002---Lineart, International Art Fair in Gent (Belgium) with Pascal Allouard
Gallery and Artists Kunstmagazine
2001---Art Fair Lineart, Gent (Belgium)------------------------i--------
2000---Photo Installation "Safety First" in "Schlachthof
Gallery, Bremen
--------"Position of art" in Haus der Kunst, Munich
--------"Joyeux Noel 2000" in Chika Gallery, Tokyo
--------Neue Kunst Gallery, Amberg (Germany)
--------Münch & Seelig", Fürth (Germany)
1999---Haus der Kunst, Munich Lineart, International Art Fair in Gent (Belgium)
--------Martens Gallery, Gent
1998---International Art Fair, Dresden (Germany)
--------Video Installation "Parks in Space" in Shlachthof Gallery,
Bremen
--------Chika Gallery, Tokyo
1997---Lineart, International Art Fair in Gent
1996---Lineart, International Art Fair in Gent
1995---Corti Gallery, Brussels
-------- Lineart, International Art Fair in Gent
--------Art Support price of the Microsoft company, Munich
1994---Lineart, International Art Fair in Gent
1993---Art Support price in Dresden Museum (Germany)
--------Art Fair Lineart, Gent--------------------------------
------i--Sparkasse Prize Karlsruhe (Germany)-----------------i--------
------i--German Hygien Museum Dresden (Germany)------------------
-----i---Lineart, International Art Fair in Gent
1990--i-Remberti’s Gallery, Bremen
1985---Chamäleon Gallery, Bremen
--------Art Support price of the city of Kirn (Germany)