All that is solid...

16 September to 30 October 2021 ⟶ Galerie

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Birte Bosse, Georges Noël, Jeongmoon Choi, Birte Bosse, Jeongmoon Choi, Nadine Fecht. Photo: Katrin Rother

Jeongmoon Choi, TECTONIC SCORE - I, 2015, pencil on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm

Jeongmoon Choi, TECTONIC SCORE - II, 2015, pencil on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm (SOLD)

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Birte Bosse, Georges Noël, Nadine Fecht. Photo: Katrin Rother

Birte Bosse, Dry Joker, 2021, steel, ca. 120 x 180 x 90 cm

Georges Noël, Maya blanca, 1988, mixed media, canvas, 216 x 216 cm

Georges Noël, Le petit diable des montagnes, 1990, Mixed media, canvas, 100 x 81 cm

Nadine Fecht, sweatshop, 2015, HDV 25 min Loop. s/w, muted, edition

Nadine Fecht, Subjectivity as a material to trade, 2016/2021, white Ink and scotch tape on used 1 USD bills, 294 x 207 cm

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Birte Bosse, Jeongmoon Choi, Nadine Fecht, Georges Noël, Birgit Hölmer. Photo: Katrin Rother

Jeongmoon Choi, ILLUSION-Y1, 2018, Threads, wooden frame, 100 x 100 x 7 cm

Birgit Hölmer, Prägung 6, 2019, Ballpen behind stone paper, 42 x 59,4 cm (SOLD)

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Georges Noël, Ignacio Uriarte

Georges Noël, Remembering Bethany Beach, 1985, mixed media, wood, 190 x 81,5 cm

Ignacio Uriarte, Triangular Circle Suite, 2021, Typewriter on paper, three frames with two drawings, each 70 x 37,2 cm

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Ignacio Uriarte, DAG, Birte Bosse. Photo: Katrin Rother

DAG, Untitled, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 80 x 80 cm

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Birte Bosse, Georges Noël. Photo: Katrin Rother

Birte Bosse, Tender Buttons, 2021, bicycle tube, metal bar, 230 x 345 x 160 cm

Georges Noël, Palimpseste très lyrique, 1959, mixed media, canvas, 111 x 145 cm

Nadine Fecht, Studie zu EIGENTUM, 2020, charcoal, tape, footprints, scorch marks on paper, 100 x 80 cm. Photo: Katrin Rother

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Birgit Hölmer, Robert Schad, Georges Noël. Photo: Katrin Rother

Georges Noël, Lettre au vent, 1988, Mixed media, canvas, 89 x 130 cm

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Birgit Hölmer, Jeongmoon Choi, Birgit Hölmer

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Birgit Hölmer

Birgit Hölmer, Utopisches Objekt 1-7, 2003, clay, 6 x 7 x 6 cm

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Jeongmoon Choi, FAULT – 1, 2015. Photo: Katrin Rother

Georges Noël, Kleine Berlin-Suite, 1993, mixed media on japanese paper, 25 x 17 cm (SOLD)

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Birte Bosse, Space Drawings, 2020/2021

Birte Bosse, Space Drawings, 2020/2021, brass, iron wire, sizes varying

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Georges Noël, DAG. Photo: Katrin Rother

Georges Noël, Tricksters play, 1989, mixed media, canvas, 216 x 216 cm

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Jeongmoon Choi, Drawing In Space - Folding Surface, 2021. Photo: Katrin Rother

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. DAG, Ignacio Uriarte, Nadine Fecht, DAG, Ignacio Uriarte. Photo: Katrin Rother

DAG, Untitled, 2016, mixed media on canvas, 180 x 200 cm

Ignacio Uriarte, Amorphous, 2013, ball pen on paper, 100 x 72 cm

Nadine Fecht, hysteria, 2017,ink on paper, 200 x 133,5 cm

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Ignacio Uriarte, Nadine Fecht. Photo: Katrin Rother

Ignacio Uriarte, Untitled (Red X -Fields 4), 2020, 30,5 x 28,3 cm

Ignacio Uriarte, Untitled (Black X-Fields 4), 2019, Typewriter on paper, 31,2 x 23,6 cm

Nadine Fecht, Studie zu Unfinished Business, 2017/2018, mixed media, collage on paper, varying in size. Photo: Katrin Rother

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. DAG, Ignacio Uriarte. Photo: Katrin Rother

DAG, O.T., 2014/15, Mixed media on canvas, 80 x 80 cm

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Birte Bosse, Georges Noël. Photo: Katrin Rother

Birte Bosse, Elements, 2020, steel, acrylic lacquer, 139 x 95 x 9 cm

Georges Noël, Untitled (N.Y.C.), 1989, mixed media, collage, paper, 63 x 87 cm

Georges Noël, Zarathustra, 1986, mixed media on paper, 52 x 84 cm (SOLD)

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. DAG, Ignacio Uriarte, Jeongmoon Choi, Robert Schad. Photo: Katrin Rother

Ignacio Uriarte, Untitled (Upper and Downer), 2013, 46,5 x 93,7 cm. Photo: Simon Vogel

DAG, Untitled, 2020, crayon, fineliner, historic sample paper, 21 x 29,7 cm

Jeongmoon Choi, LANDSCAPE, 2012, Metallic threads on the paper, 24 x 34 cm

Jeongmoon Choi, GATE, 2012, metallic threads on paper, 24 x 34 cm

Robert Schad, Untitled, 2004, laquer on steel plate, 50 x 29,5 cm

Installation View Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Nadine Fecht, Georges Noël, Birte Bosse, Birgit Hölmer, Ignacio Uriarte, DAG. Photo: Katrin Rother

Nadine Fecht, Studie zu EIGENTUM, 2020, burn marks on paper, 123 x 119 cm (SOLD)

Georges Noël, Untitled, 1989, Mixed Media, woodcut, on paper, 18,5 x 11,5 cm

Birte Bosse, Untitled, 2010, pigmented Ink on paper, 32 x 32 cm.

Birgit Hölmer, Z6, 2017, Pencil on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm

Birgit Hölmer, Z2, 2017, Pencil on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm

Ignacio Uriarte, Untitled (Square Overlay R5), 2020, Typewriter on paper, 33,6 x 29,6 cm

“All that is solid…”

September 16 – October 30, 2021

Opening: September 15, 18 – 21 h

Special Opening Hours during Gallery Weekend:
Friday - Sunday 12 - 20h

Participating Artists:
Birte Bosse / Nadine Fecht / Birgit Hölmer / Georges Noël / Robert Schad

Invited by Ludwig Seyfarth: Jeongmoon Choi / DAG / Ignacio Uriarte

The Six Memos for the Next Millennium that Italian author Italo Calvino formulated in 1985 is a plea for the intellectual and graphic power of art and its ability to describe the world in ever new material qualities, in states of aggregation, as it were. Calvino noted, "two opposing literary tendencies have competed over the centuries: one that seeks to make language a weightless element that hovers over things like a cloud, or, better, a fine dust, or, better still, a magnetic field; another that seeks to imbue language with the weight and thickness and concreteness of objects and bodies and sensations".[1]

What Calvino describes for literature can be transferred directly to visual art. The exhibition "All that is solid…" contrasts the works of eight different artists on a spectrum from earthiness to lucid lightness. The starting point is the gestural traces- and symbol-imbued work of Georges Noël, a central proponent of French Art Informel, who stated: "It's about transforming everything material into the immaterial. And even a few strokes can create a space.” This is how the draughtsman and sculptor Robert Schad describes his solid steel sculptures as “plastic notations". The humorous objects that Birte Bosse brings into a precarious balance between lightness and heaviness can be read as drawings in space. A tension between organic and geometric forms characterises the 'drawing' of Birgit Hölmer, for which she uses embossing or adhesive strips. In DAG's work, the relentless pursuit of geometric grids is repeatedly disturbed by disruptions, which look like biological signs of life in a technical universe. Ignacio Uriarte uses a technical machinę – a typewriter – to tease out her unforeseen visual possibilities. Nadine Fecht also progresses line-by-line when she writes down repeated words or sentences, creating a drawing that, from a distance, generates Op-Art-like flickering effects. Also flickering before our eyes are the coloured threads that Jeongmoon Choi stretches not only into pictorial objects but also through the entire room, where they glow mysteriously and are seemingly dematerialised in the black light. (Text: Ludwig Seyfarth)

[1] Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, trans: Graham Brock, Mariner Books, Houghton Muffin Harcourt, Boston/New York 2016, p. 22