ART Habens
Gerd G . M . Brockmann
ephemeral works , the body as media , textiles as second skin , nature and environment as artistic space . I was able to use my “ old-school ” experience as well as my science from the university basics at Flensburg ´ s art and textile departments , to create new works and my new research projects became a short time later reality . In the same year I realized a small project at Istanbul , after I meet the members of a small independent art space at the Contemporary Istanbul Fair while showing my portfolio to the galleries . And step by step my works got an international touch and I started to work between both countries and I love the cultural exchange , the idea to develop a new visual language for me that includes both cultures . interaction with the work - the artwork itself is performative - it is not really a photograph , nor is it really a sculpture . It is an action , and it is an encounter between two people ; one a viewer , and one the performer who is wearing the costume , their body moving slightly with each breath , and shreds of fabric moving with a small breeze . This is such a harmonious amalgamation of costume becoming installation ; installation becoming performance ; performance becoming sculpture ; sculpture becoming a photograph ; photograph entering the online sphere . With elements of identity removed ; masked faces and wrapped figures , my work seems to have created a repeated motif - a human captured in time and captured ( encased , even ) within various mediums . It is a tension which exists in the work , and in the characteristics of the mediums used . While fashion is typically used to determine uniqueness and compliment personal identity , I juxtapose this idea by removing facial features and bodily features which would usually be used to characterize us . It ´ s just possible if there ’ s a crossing of disciplines . Moreover , I reach with this artistic production a disciplinary exciting audience in many areas .
In the contemporary art world of the modern era it is essential to enter into a symbiotic relationship with other disciplines to develop yourself as an artist and to create a new visual language . Through the networked world of fine arts mutated into a global activity and in this age of globalization it is essential to get new realms by fusing art , fashion , photography , design and craft , to create new perceptions for the observer . My work is characterized as a new form of public in art and at the same department it offers an insight into the geopolitics of the art system of the 21st century . To survive in today ' s art market , it is necessary to develop critical tools to allow the viewer a glimpse behind the curtain . The multidisciplinary symbiosis as you call it allows me to develop a broad-based oeuvre as an artist and is actually the only way some of my concepts had been realized . For Example , THE SUPLENESS PUCK ´ S … The artwork to us viewers , is a different experience to my
I believe that one ' s personal experience accounts for a huge part of any of my works and
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