Solo show with CHUL-HYUN AHN
Chul-Hyun Ahn combines plywood, cast concrete, cinder block, mirrors and lights in arrangements with spectacular results. The use of one or two way mirrors, creates a depth such that the observer feels he is staring into infinity or dropping down the rabbit hole similar to Alice (in Wonderland).
Ahn is not the first artist to combine art with technology, experimenting with human perception and relationships of space and time. Moholy-Nagy observed, that “in an industrialized age, the distinction between art and non-art, between manual craftsmanship and mechanical technology is no longer an absolute one. Neither painting nor photography, the motion pictures nor light display can be any longer jealously separated from each other”.
Recent exhibitions of light based art demonstrate the vast panoply of ways in which artists have used light as a medium. Bruce Nauman, Ivan Navarro, Keith Sonnier, James Turrell, Olafur Eliasson, Daniel Canogar, et al spring to mind. Eliasson has commented “you see whatever you’re looking at, but also you see the way you are seeing.”
Ahn’s geometric arrangements (one is reminded of the minimalism of Dan Flavin) of fluorescent light, unfinished surface finishes, visible electrical wiring, demand a physical interaction with the viewer. However Ahn does not fit into a specific category. Trained originally as a painter in Korea, he moved on to adding a three dimensionality to his works-essentially he is translating geometric painting into an art of light, space and technology.
Ahn achieves the impossible ie of creating an object of meditation. Staring at one of the objects one feels the mind is emptied of everyday detritus. Endlessness, infinity and emptiness, relinquishing desire and worldly things, are a prerequisite for enlightenment according to Zen Buddhist doctrine, which has influenced Ahn in his work. Ahn’s non-representational works, invite just such a quiet contemplation.
Vernissage: 10.9.2010, 6-9pm
Exhibition duration: 11.9.2010-16.1.2011
Opening hours: Tue.-Sat. 11am - 6pm
BOOK LAUNCH, 10.9.2010, 7pm, at Galerie Caprice Horn
Artists Anonymous
The Apocalyptic Warriors
Dumont Buchverlag, 2010
approx. 256 pages with 148 color illustrations
text: the artists in conversation with Eugen Blume (Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin)
German/English
We look forward to invite you to WINE & ART
Presentation of 200 German Winemakers in Berlin galleries
5.9.2010, 12am - 6pm
Winemakers at Galerie Caprice Horn: Graf Adelmann, St. Antony, Friedrich Becker, Dr. Heger, Johannshof, Roth
Tickets are available through www.eventim.de
NEWS & EVENTS
Edgar Martins
Winner of the International Photography Awards (category Fine Art, Abstract)
Daniel & Geo Fuchs
"Eros & Stasi", 26.9.-21.-11.2010
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Khaled Hafez
"Manifesta 8 - The European Biennial of Contemporary Art", 9.10.2010-9.1.2011
Murcia, Spain
Meghan Boody
"Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination", curated by Mark Scala, 2011
First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, USA
Inci Eviner
"Busan Biennale: Living in Evolution", 11.9.-20.11.2010
Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
Daniel Canogar
"Constelaciones", Permanent public art installation on new pedestrian bridges crossing the Manzanares Rio
Opening 8.9.2010
Puentes Manzanares, Madrid, Spain
"Enredos", curated by Neus Cortes, Espai Quatre, Casal Solleric, 16.9.-30.10.2010
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
"Daniel Canogar: Grenzbereiche der Skulptur", curated by Marko Schacher, 24.10.-28.11.2010
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
Sunil Gupta
"Love's Body 2 - Sexuality in the age of AIDS", 2.9.-5.12.2010
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Maslen & Mehra
"Çanakkale Biennial", 20.9.-10.10.2010
Çanakkale, Turkey
Julia Fullerton-Batten
"Heroines", 8.3.-5.6.2011
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundacion Caja, Madrid, Spain
Democracia
"Erased Walls", Mediations Biennale, 11.9.-30.10.2010
Poznan, Poland
Bernardí Roig
"Spielraum", Aug.-Nov. 2010
Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma, Spain
Li Wei
Festival des Arts Visuels de Vevey, 4.9-26.9.2010
Vevey, Switzerland
We are very proud to announce the participation of the following artists at the Cairo Biennale 2010
Khaled Hafez, Amal Kenawy, Justine Otto, Hannah van Ginkel and Matthew Carver
Galerie Caprice Horn
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All images are courtesy of Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin
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