2007“中国之路”德国表现主义大师爱卡特作品个展

开幕时间：2007年6月16日，星期六下午3：00PM-6：00PM

展览时间：2007年6月17日-6月30日

地点：XYZ 画廊，798大山子艺术区D06-6

联络电话：010 8459 9299

艺术家简介：

爱卡特于1946年6月25日出生于被战争破坏的柏林，并在那里这里成长。高中毕业后他在柏林艺术大学学习了扎实的基础知识，之后开始了不断挑战自我的艺术创作。

他现在柏林生活和工作，受邀在柏林艺术学院教授雕塑以人体绘画，自2000年以来应邀来中国天津美院客座教授，他在工作上作风严谨、顽强不懈、细节上精益求精，即便在困难的情况下他亦不屈不挠，他对待学生循循教导、诲人不倦。

按照年龄和履历他属于柏林战后的第三代艺术家，这代艺术家中引人注目的造型艺术家还有Heinz Tr?kes, Alexander Camarow，Werner Heldt, E.W. Nay, Hans Uhlmann 和 Karl Hartung，其作品充分汲取了战后柏林的创造力。后继画家有比如Otto Eglau, C. F. H?lzmann, C.-H. Kliemann，同其前辈具有一脉相承的特质。

在强烈色彩组合中他走的是与抽象派相反的道路。他并不是把某事物抽象成某种“新事物”，而更多的是在完全的自由中，创作出新事物并同时在自己的画中以第二视角发现新的现实、全景、远处空间和立体空间、阴影、火焰。

爱卡特的画表现了很多经历和背景。他的画并不让人觉得舒适，不给人安全感。但不带有攻击性。好奇的人可以发现很多东西，其创作的笔法极富表现力，感情奔放而经历丰富， 在抽象派门槛之外。他的视觉经历创作出的画面让欣赏者必须想要懂得他的画，才会爱上它们。

作为雕塑家和画家，他的艺术生活的追求是不断创新、永葆创作激情。他总是从挑战身体极限中去寻找激情，他迷恋高山滑雪、冲浪及攀岩运动，他坚持每周跑步，他对东方怀有极大的热情。

此次2007爱卡特《中国之路》个展汇集了爱卡特自2000年应邀来天津美术学院客座教授以来多次来中国创作的一系列以中国为主题的绘画作品近50幅，从这些作品当中，我们深深地感受到爱卡特的艺术创作传递了他对中国文化、历史、人文等的关怀和描绘，从中我们也似乎领悟到一位来自德国的表现主义艺术家独特的视角和表现方式。

他的作品具有不可比性。

我们不必问其原因，因为爱卡特是独一无二的！

ROAD TO CHINA

EKKEHARD STOEVESAND SOLO EXHIBITION

Opening Reception: June 16, 2007, Saturday afternoon 3:00PM-6:00PM Exhibition Time: June 17 to June 30, 2007

Venue: XYZ Gallery, D06-6 of 798 Dashanzi Art Center

Contact: 010 8459 9299

“Ekkehard Stoevesand was born on June 25, 1946, in Berlin, the post-war destroyed city. He grew up in Berlin，studied at Universit?t der Künste in Berlin. Now he resides and works in Berlin as an independent artist.

His artistic life as a sculptor and painter could be characterized as a continuous departure. To him, there would be never a formative influence on his way of working and his style. Ekkehard is a Trojan worker, even under hard conditions. He keeps himself in absorbing passion and energy from challenging the limit of his capability, while he is fascinated with mountain skiing, surf riding and his weekly running training. Until now, he never gives himself a chance to rest.

According to his age and career, Ekkehard would be one of the members of the third post-war generation in Berlin: amongst those would be Heinz Tr?kes, Alexander Camarow, Werner Heldt, E. W. Nay, Hans Uhlmann and Karl Hartung, whose work expresses the creative power of post-war Berlin. Following and still related to their art were the painters Otto Eglau, C. F. H?lzmann, C.H. Kliemann.

His strong colorful compositions take the opposite direction of abstraction. He does not abstract from something to something “new”, he rather creates something new in complete freedom so as to speak in the second view discovers in his paintings new realities, vistas, spheres and spaces, shadows and blazes.

In Ekkehard’s paintings there is a lot of experience and background, while his paintings neither offer comfortable, nor security. For the curious eye, there’s a lot to discover. The artistic style and gestures – they are unmistakable powerful, impetuous and eventful – in the field of association, powerful, on the threshold of abstraction. His visual experiences turn into objects. The observer aims for insight beyond internalized conceptions of beauty. This is when love for the composition arises.

Road to China solo exhibition has been accumulated about 50 works through years of his active creation in China since year of 2000, from the first time that Ekkehard was invited to be a visiting professor by Tianjing Academy of Fine Arts. These works are all about China-motif, from which we can strongly sense the passion and enthusiasm of the artist on the life in Beijing and other parts of China, such as hutong, temples, street, historical sites and people etc.

Ekkehard’s work does not lead us to compare. We shall not need to ask the artist, as Ekkehard is the one – and nobody else.”