UDO NOGER "Light as a Material" 8 Giugno - Luglio 2010

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UDO NOGER

"Light as a Material" 

8 Giugno – Luglio 2010 

After following and studying this German artist, now naturalised Hawaii citizen, for different years, I'm extremely pleased to present the individual exhibition of Udo Nöger.

For the first time in Italy, the artist is coming from important exhibitions in different places around the world, such as Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles; Lowe Gallery, Atlanta; Galeria Alvaro Alcazara, Madrid; Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe; Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles.

The works presented here have been especially selected for my space; this work is indeed in perfect tune with my thinking and hence with the programme of my gallery. His way of painting bewilders the audience: space and time disclose in the painted light, which turns into material.

His work since 1997 named 'Light as a Material' incorporates translucent materials, which emphasize the artist's ongoing interest in light and its manifestations; in Nöger's art light appears to enter into the painting, illuminating the transparent forms and then returning to the ambient space that is its source.

His technique ensures the translucency of the inner life of the paintings. It is the very thing that preserves the light penetrating from outside.

The paintings from this series result from the summation of sensuous experience in the life of Udo Nöger. Accessing the world with an "armed eye", the artist arrived at a reduction of his elements  that is without parallel in contemporary art.

For the artist, existence does not consist of a rambling maze full of forms, but is the concentration of essential elements. It is evident that his decision to make picture-objects and not only paintings is placed within this context.

In Nöger's case, this transformation of an abstract entity into sensuous terms feels German in both a philosophical and a formal sense; his art turns on the paradox that something as disembodied as light can be represented physically, so that our conception of it literally has something to hold.

I would also like to inform you, that the artist has already scheduled future exhibitions in public as well as private international spaces, such as: Alvaro Alcazar Gallery, Madrid; Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami; Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, "Retrospective Works from 1980-2011", Museum of Contemporary Art Honolulu, HI ; Museum Sonderjylland, Denmark. 

Once again, "take a look to believe",

Bruno Grossetti 
 

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