Hydrography III, Bad Nieuweschans

Gold, silver, copper, 2016, 60x45 cm

Gold, silver, copper, 2016, 60×45 cm

Hydrography III
International group exhibition with conceptual and abstract watercolours

 
LaKaserna
Molenstraat 5
9693 EJ  Bad Nieuweschans
The Netherlands

 
May 19 – June 26, 2016
Hours: Thu–Sun 12–5 pm

 
Opening reception: Saturday, May 21, 4 pm

 
Hydrography III is an initiative of Iemke van Dijk and Henriëtte van ’t Hoog.

 
Participating artists: René van den Bos (NL), Karina Bugayova (DE/UA), Christoph Dahlhausen (DE), Ine Dammers (NL), Iemke van Dijk (NL), Hildegard Elma (DE), Daniel Geiger (DE), Lon Godin (NL), Ilona Hakvoort (NL), Brent Hallard (US), José Heerkens (NL), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Oleksiy Koval (DE/UA), Irene van de Mheen (NL), Eric de Nie (NL), Stefan Schessl (DE), Jessica Snow (US), Aimée Terburg (NL), Veronika Wenger (DE), Werner Windisch (DE)

 

Orange, green, purple, gold, silver, copper, 2016, 60x45 cm

Orange, green, purple, gold, silver, copper, 2016, 60×45 cm

‘Het medium waterverf wordt door de deelnemende kunstenaars op onconventionele wijze toegepast. Essentiële eigenschappen van het materiaal, zoals de grote kleur- en lichtkracht en de transparantie, zijn autonoom aanwezig in het werk. Qua uitgangspunt en werkwijze zijn er onderling veel verschillen. De kunstenaars hanteren echter allen een abstracte vormentaal.’

 
Hydrography III is een vervolg op Formeel 2015 in Museum Waterland in Purmerend en Hydrography II in 2013 in de Vishal in Haarlem. In steeds wisselende formaties laat een mix van internationaal bekende en minder bekende kunstenaars hun werk zien. Dit jaar is LaKaserna het podium van dit topevenement op het gebied van abstracte aquarelkunst.’

 

Biennale, Odessa

Rhythm Section at the
4th Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art
Museum of Odessa Modern Art
Belinskogo Str. 5
65014 Odessa
Ukraine

 

August 26 – October 2, 2015
Hours: Wed–Sat 12–7 pm, Sun 12–6 pm
Opening reception: Wednesday, August 26, 6 pm

 

Participating artists: Anneke Bosma (NL), Karina Bugayova (UA), Daniel Geiger (DE), Dmytro Goncharenko (UA), Michael Hofstetter (DE), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Oleksiy Koval (DE), Herbert Rometsch (DE), Stefan Schessl (DE), Veronika Wenger (DE), Michael Wright (UK).

Rhythm & Method, Munich (I)

Rhythm & Method
A group exhibition by Rhythm Section

Galerie der Künstler
Maximilianstraße 42
80538 Munich
Germany

June 11–28, 2015
Hours: Wed, Fri–Sun 11 am – 6 pm; Thu 11 am – 8 pm
Opening reception: Wednesday, June 10, 7–10 pm

Participating artists: Michael Hofstetter, Henriëtte van ’t Hoog, Gonghong Huang, Oleksiy Koval, Gang Li, Kuros Nekouian, Stefan Schessl, Dali Sun, Xiao Tang, Huangsheng Wang, Veronika Wenger, Xiaozhen Yu


Rhythm and Method, Wuhan (I)

Rhythm and Method. Abstract Art in China and Germany
Hubei Museum of Art
Hall No. 3/4/5/6
1 Sanguandian Donghu Road
Wuhan, Hubei
China

June 28 – August 4, 2013
Opening: June 28, 2013, 3:30 pm

 
Participating artists: Chen Ruobing (CN), Huang Gonghong (DE), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Oleksiy Koval (DE), Yuliia Koval (DE), Li Lei (CN), Li Peng (CN), Li Zhanhao (CN), Kuros Nekouian (DE), Stefan Schessl (DE), Tang Xiao (CN), Yu Xiaozhen (CN)

Curators: Li Jianchun (CN), Laura Sánchez Serrano (DE)

 
A Question of Rhythm and Method
Preface by Laura Sánchez Serrano in the catalogue

Bars VI, 2012

Art schools or art movements used to be a phenomenon on a regional or national scale. However, in the last few decades, we have witnessed a process of globalisation that has significantly impacted the development of art and the way we understand it. Thanks to the Internet, new media and low-cost flights, art has become a global issue, allowing artists and curators to establish new methods of collaboration and cultural enrichment. Such is the case for the exhibition Rhythm and Method, Abstract Art in China and Germany. Initiated by the artists – already a sign of how things are changing in the cultural field – the exhibition aims to create a Sino-German dialogue between contemporary artists specialising in non-figurative art.

Taking the concepts of Rhythm and Method as a starting point, the exhibition highlights the similarities and differences between abstract art in Germany and China, building a bridge for cultural exchange and artistic dialogue. Rhythm and Method represent intriguing principles for understanding and appreciating abstract art: one focuses on composition and the other on procedure. Rhythm is a term normally used for music and literature, defined as a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. In visual arts, rhythm is created through the repetition, alternation or gradation of pattern on a surface. Our eyes follow the surface, where patterns are arranged in a certain order, enabling us to experience the whole as a visual melody in time. Method describes the specific procedure used to accomplish a work of art. It refers to the specific technique used by the artists, the particular way they apply it and how their personal technique affects the result. There is no method without rhythm, nor rhythm without method. Method is the structure that allows rhythm, the engine that turns chaos into logical order.

Bars VIII, 2012

Bars VIII, 2012

In the case of the German group of artists, rhythm is the basis of their artistic research, the framework for their theoretical work. In 2010 Oleksiy Koval, Stefan Schessl and Kuros Nekouian founded the “Rhythm Section” group, a collective that supports artists in exploring the theme of rhythm through exchanges and exhibitions. Members of the group consider rhythm as the key for the perception and reception of art. But they all use rhythm in a personal way, expressing their own talent by different means, whether it be through geometrical compositions, in the case of Henriëtte van ’t Hoog and Oleksyi Koval, lyrical arrangements, in Yuliia Koval’s works, organic structures, typical of Kuros Nekouian, or expressive strokes, in the paintings of Stefan Schessl or Huang Gonghong.

The Hubei Museum of Art in Wuhan is showing works from the German “Rhythm Section” group for the first time, in dialogue with those of six renowned Chinese artists. It is an ideal scenario for creating intellectual exchange and stimulating debate about abstract art, immersing the visitor in a world of visual sensations connecting East and West.