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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