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The Nosbaum Reding gallery pays tribute to sculptor Bernd Lohaus through a group exhibition that seeks to offer a renewed perspective on his work.
In counterpoint to his sculptures made from azob茅 wood salvaged along the banks of the Scheldt, the exhibition brings together Jacqueline Mesmaeker鈥攁rchitect of the structure of the line鈥攁nd a group of contemporary artists: Luca Dal Vignale, Tina Gillen, Priscilla Gils, Karsten Krogh-Hansen, Gijs Milius, Ute M眉ller, Nele Tas, and Charlotte Vandenbroucke. Some of these artists are, moreover, graduates of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Together, they explore the foundational concepts in Lohaus鈥檚 practice: heightened spatial perception, tension and balance in composition, and a careful attention to the object鈥檚 presence鈥攚ith the aim of staging an encounter between two protagonists: the viewer and the object.
A singular figure in sculpture, Bernd Lohaus consistently anchored his work in questions of language and the presence of the body, set against a backdrop of sculpture reduced to its mass鈥攂locks whose volumes are articulated with the floor, the wall, the openings and closures of space. The exhibition, which presents both sculptures and paintings, revisits the paradox common to both mediums: the tendency to operate through processes of addition and subtraction in their relationship to material. In what way do Lohaus鈥檚 sculptures carry within them a dialogue between forms and a reflection on their history? And how do these assemblages of beams in display mode convey a generational legacy鈥攐ne that persists in the becoming-sculpture of painting and in an ongoing reflection on the frame?
These are the propositions the Nosbaum Reding gallery puts forward today through the works of Bernd Lohaus.
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The Nosbaum Reding gallery pays tribute to sculptor Bernd Lohaus through a group exhibition that seeks to offer a renewed perspective on his work.
In counterpoint to his sculptures made from azob茅 wood salvaged along the banks of the Scheldt, the exhibition brings together Jacqueline Mesmaeker鈥攁rchitect of the structure of the line鈥攁nd a group of contemporary artists: Luca Dal Vignale, Tina Gillen, Priscilla Gils, Karsten Krogh-Hansen, Gijs Milius, Ute M眉ller, Nele Tas, and Charlotte Vandenbroucke. Some of these artists are, moreover, graduates of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Together, they explore the foundational concepts in Lohaus鈥檚 practice: heightened spatial perception, tension and balance in composition, and a careful attention to the object鈥檚 presence鈥攚ith the aim of staging an encounter between two protagonists: the viewer and the object.
A singular figure in sculpture, Bernd Lohaus consistently anchored his work in questions of language and the presence of the body, set against a backdrop of sculpture reduced to its mass鈥攂locks whose volumes are articulated with the floor, the wall, the openings and closures of space. The exhibition, which presents both sculptures and paintings, revisits the paradox common to both mediums: the tendency to operate through processes of addition and subtraction in their relationship to material. In what way do Lohaus鈥檚 sculptures carry within them a dialogue between forms and a reflection on their history? And how do these assemblages of beams in display mode convey a generational legacy鈥攐ne that persists in the becoming-sculpture of painting and in an ongoing reflection on the frame?
These are the propositions the Nosbaum Reding gallery puts forward today through the works of Bernd Lohaus.
