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Galerie Bob van OrsouwLimmatstrasse 270 CH-8005 Zurich SWITZERLAND 
T +41 44 273 11 00 F +41 44 273 11 02 e-mail: 28 March 2015 – 23 May 2015 |
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 Svenja Deininger Untitled , 2014 Oil on canvas 65 x 50 cm / 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in DEINI20420 Copyright the artist, Courtesy Galerie Bob van Orsouw |
Dedicated to current tendencies in contemporary painting Galerie Bob van Orsouw presents the group show CURRENTCURRENT. The exhibition on the one hand looks to bringing together a group of four international artists exploring abstraction, whether it is in a more gestural manner or with a conceptual approach. Furthermore CURRENTCURRENT explores the works of guest artists on the basis of artist invitations: presented for the first time in Switzerland is the work of Evi Vingerling, invited to partake by gallery artist Klaas Kloosterboer, similarly on view for the first time at Galerie Bob van Orsouw is the painting of Svenja Deininger, who in turn included the work of Walter Svennen.
Abstract painting comes with its own noble provenance, which is the heart of its foundation: Kasimir Malevich’s non-objectivity, Josef Alber’s repetition, Frank Stella’s reductivity or Mark Rothko’s sublimity, Jackson Pollock’s expressionistic gesture and Agnes Martin’s Taoist investigations, or Daniel Burren’s integrations, to name a few. It exists in a sensorial vacuity, “wedged between digitised media, a mental impression of an interior state, and the sights and sounds of the exoteric world” (Max Henry). Though of different generations and with unrelated emphases as their onsets, CURRENTCURRENT draws a fine line from one artist to the next. Whether it is a physical approach or more intuitive, a casual materiality or defined precisions, characterised by an understated and layered complexity or an instantaneous bold statement, the works on view present the diversity of modern traditions in abstraction drawn together by the questions of quintessence of painting and its essential gestures; the inevitable flow and current variety of painting›s endless potential.
Svenja Deininger (*1974, Vienna, AT)
The work of Austrian artist Svenja Deininger has a discrete quietness to it. Characterised by the geometric abstractions within her paintings, various perceptual elements play against one other, balancing opacity against transparency, turning surface into depth. Everything fits together with the grooved perfection of a jigsaw puzzle, though one that doesn’t hold together as an unwavering composition. Investigative, Deininger demonstrates what it means to think through painting, questioning whether abstraction is essentially figurative, or figuration essentially abstract.
Deininger has had solo shows at Kunsthalle Krems; the Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna; the Forum austriaco di cultura in Rome, and her works were presented in group exhibitions at Kunstraum Innsbruck; Kunstmuseum Solothurn; or 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna, to name a few.
Klaas Kloosterboer (*1959, Amsterdam, NL)
Gallery artist Klaas Kloosterboer is an abstract painter, reacting with his canvases like a sculptor in space. His statements best describe his practice: “nothing is forever”; “nothing is absolute”; “anything can be adapted”; “anything can be changed”; “things evolve, but in many directions at once”; “some directions are successful, others are not”; and “anything will be tried out (at least once)”. Taking the latter to heart the works included in CURRENTCURRENT relate to the artist in his most gestural condition. The Amsterdam-based artist has had numerous group- and solo shows, some of which include XXXL Painting: Klaas Kloosterboer, Chris Martin en Jim Shaw, at Boijmans van Beuningen/Onderzeebootloods, Rotterdam; % Painting, Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht; The Projection Project, Budapest episode, at Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest; and Gegenstände/Handlungsformen, at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
Walter Swennen (*1946, Brussels, BE)
Known for his essential, experimental, and associative attitude to painting, Swennen’s approach is perhaps best summed up as a belief in the total sovereignty of the artwork. Before the painter came the poet – perhaps thus it’s no coincidence that Swennen perceives painting as an act of translation and hence language plays a vital role in his practice.
For the Belgian lyricist-come-artist, a painting does not need to be ‘emotive’ or ‘understood’: the primary goal of painting is, quite simply, painting. Swennen has had many solo shows, such as So Far So Good, Wiels, Brussels; Garibaldi Slept Here, Kunst-verein Freiburg; or Schilderijen, Kunsthal, Rotterdam. Moreover, his works have been included in notable group shows such as at the Kunsthalle Vienna; Frac Ile-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris; MUHKA, Antwerp; or importantly La Belgique Visionnaire/Visionair België, curated by Harald Szeemann, Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels.
Evi Vingerling (*1979, Gouda, NL)
Currently living and working between Eindhoven and Amsterdam, Evi Vingerling’s casual materiality is an important means of capturing the short moment before what we see can be named, understood, or placed by our intellect.
One is not to look at the painting ‘point by point’, but rather to see a series of changing ‘planes’, comparative to music where too it is not the individual note that stands out in the melody, but short passages, which continuously merge into the unifying theme. Though removing herself from her paintings, Vingerling›s approach is highly emotional nonetheless, embodying the joy of seeing, and the solace it brings. Her work has been exhibited in group- as well as solo shows, such as I Promise to Love You in the Kunsthal Rotterdam; Riposte in the Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch; New Paintings in the Project Room Wiels, Brussels; or Pep at tada-projects, Post-Museum Singapore.
 Klaas Kloosterboer 09132 , 2009 Oil on linen 190 x 175 cm / 74 3/4 x 68 7/8 in KLOOS20426 |
 Klaas Kloosterboer 09152 , 2009 Oil on linen 180 x 160 cm / 70 7/8 x 63 in KLOOS20428 |
 Walter Swennen L'arbre à came , 2010 Oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm / 23 5/8 x 27 1/2 in SWENN20435 |
| Svenja Deininger | Klaas Kloosterboer | Walter Swennen | |
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