March 22 – 26, 2017
2017년 3월 22 – 26일
Gallery M, CICA Museum
CICA 미술관 M 전시실
Statement
_ a kingdom for a horse!
The motto is: “For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.” (The New Testament, Hebrews 12, 13). The future city, the future way of living together, and perhaps even the future way of a common approach in the post-factual age, is here in Matthias Sturm’s presentation at the CICA Museum on artistic disposition. For example, on Japanese paper: Feather-light and weighty at the same time, feather-light in the speed of the visual impression, which acts upon us in 60 joined picture tiles in the secondary act; weighty in its Shakespearean dimension of content: “Everything stands on the knife’s edge.” Existential memories flash, old nightmares are awakened and the horses of aesthetic knowledge run throughout. At last: Ecriture automatique will be visualized, will be a reminder, will be gloomy poetry. Does: “You want it darker, we kill the flame” (Leonard Cohen) also apply?
Raimar Stange, Berlin in February 2017
Bio
Matthias Sturm
1969 born in Eisenach (East Germany)
1977 Dresden; 1985 – 88 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts (evening classes at the HfBK Dresden)
1991 – 2000 Hamburg, Berlin; occupation at the Anima 3 Trickfilmstudio & Kampnagel
Theater; studies and bachelor of the Hanseatic Academy of Media & Communication (HAMK); since 1991 solo & group exhibitions in Germany, Austria, France, Japan & the USA; works in public & private art collections, such as Collection Deutsche Bank, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, MAK Vienna, Dallas Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Cordes sur Ciel a.o.
Since 2001 artist in residence at Parc de Sculptures Engelbrecht in France ; since 2009 concert tours in India, Dubai, Belgium, France and the USA
2011 Nominee of the Independent Music Awards