Clemens Weiss

Clemens Weiss ( born September 26, 1955 in Grefrath ) is a living in the United States by German artists.

  • 5.1 Works in public collections
  • 5.2 Books
  • 5.3 Illustrations

Youth and Education

Clemens Weiss grew up on the Lower Rhine. 1970-1973 he completed a technical training in the field of mechanical engineering. He then studied art, philosophy, medicine and geology in Krefeld, Dusseldorf and Vienna in 1977-1982 and was at the same time working as a freelance artist. In 1983 he retired to Süchteln and focused on their own philosophical- theoretical and artistic work. Since 1986 he had his own studio in Mönchengladbach. There, he put together a documentary of his previous artistic plant unit and moved permanently to New York in 1987, where he has lived and worked ever since.

Artistic creation

His exhibitions began in 1988 in the prestigious Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York. It was followed by numerous exhibitions and art, theater and public sculpture projects in Europe and the U.S. in galleries, art associations and museums; , there were guest lectures, conferences and public events, often in conjunction with exhibitions. Weiss has resigned as curator and editor of greater transatlantic projects in arts and media sector in appearance, as the New York project of the June -Verlag, 1991, an art exhibition of American artists in Germany. He is committed to international understanding and warns against dangers that threaten humanity: His sculpture Regarding Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapon is - as an official gift of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations - since 1996 as a permanent installation at the Palace of Nations ( UN) to see in Geneva. There 42 written by hand texts of any significant international instruments, the aspects of the complexity of the nuclear age are stored in a stelae group include up to Year 1995.

White tries to make the different genres merge art and philosophy through installations and work groups. His installations are made of transparent glass constructions, which often drawings, writings and other objects have been inserted, and which are also used in their own theater productions. His works can be found renowned museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ) in New York and the Pushkin Museum Moscow.

Quote

The Art Forum International writes about the work of Weiss:

  • " White wants to make concepts clear thinking, which are practically difficult to implement. Impressively is presented, which is in our lives all intertwined and interdependent: as mundane as standout, Precious, Clear and Diffused. It shows the rough with artisanal and in a simplicity that is comfortable restraint. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2013 Gallery Kabuth, Gelsenkirchen,
  • 2011 Galleria Cortina, Milan, (Italy )
  • 2011 Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
  • 2010 Redline Foundation Milwaukee, Wisconsin ( USA)
  • 2007 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York ( USA)
  • 2004 Gallery Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen
  • 2002 art space Sylt Quelle, Sylt
  • 1998 Museum Bochum, Bochum
  • 1996 Palace of Nations, United Nations, Geneva ( Switzerland )
  • 1994 Gallery Seippel, Cologne
  • 1992 Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
  • 1989 Josef- Haubrich - Kunsthalle, Cologne
  • 1989 Art Cologne, Gallery Förderkoje Löhrl, Cologne
  • 1989 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (USA)

Group Exhibitions

  • 2013 Owens Gallery, Ontario (Canada)
  • 2012 Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder / Colorado ( USA)
  • 2011 Redline Milwaukee (USA)
  • 2008 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York ( USA)
  • 2007 Yvonne Lambert Gallery, Paris ( France )
  • 2006 Suermond Ludwig Museum, Aachen
  • 2005 St. Mary's Church, Prenzlau, intervention - urban space
  • 2001 Folkwang Museum, Essen. ( Acquisitions )
  • 2001 Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen. ( Darlings )
  • 2000 Expo 2000, Hanover. (Post editions)
  • 1999 National Gallery of Berlin ( The XX century -. 100 years of art in Germany )
  • 1991 Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen. ( Transcendence / transparency)

Works (selection)

Works in public collections

  • University of Colorado Boulder Museum, Boulder / Colorado ( USA)
  • Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for contemporary art. Berlin
  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ), New York ( USA)
  • New York Public Library. The Spencer Collection, New York ( USA)
  • Pushkin Museum, Moscow (Russia)
  • Palace of the Nations (UN ), Geneva ( Switzerland )
  • University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa ( USA)
  • Von der Heydt - Museum, Wuppertal
  • Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (USA)
  • German Bank, Frankfurt
  • Clemens Weiss. Drawings - Series 1990 to 1997. Seippel. Köln 1997, ISBN 3-9804967-5-9
  • In the city and in the country, Kunstverein region Heinberg 1995
  • Stories from the development. A pooled into a sketchbook selection of 1988 resulting in New York drawings. June -Verlag, Mönchengladbach, 1991, ISBN 3-926738-16-2
  • Drawings and concepts to installation No segment. 3 Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 1990, ISBN 3-929261 12X
  • Albert Vigoleis Thelen / Clemens Weiss: poems / drawings. June -Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1989

Illustrations

  • Title picture. Albrecht Joseph, Carl Zuck Mayer, Bruno Frank. Portraits. Weidle, Bonn 1993, ISBN 978-3-931135-01-0
  • Title picture. Rudolph S. Joseph: From Big theater time. Alamo. Aachen 1994, ISBN 978-3931135065
  • Design for pre-paid telephone calling card. " Edition of 100 ," Amerivox 1994
  • Drawing. Beyond Freedom. Book for Olusegun Obasanjo. New York 1996
  • Title picture. Albrecht Joseph: The Last Curtain. Weidle, Bonn 1996, ISBN 978-3-931135-23-2
  • Title picture. Middens No. 38 Viersen 1999, ISSN 0085-3593
  • Stage design for Anne Frank 's Diary. Temple Israel, New York in 2001

Interviews and media programs (selection)

  • Enzo Capua: Film Documentation New York Artists. 2001
  • Enzo Capua: Studio interview: New York Artists Responding to 11 September
  • Vera Linß: Interview Rundfunk Berlin. Atelier New York in 2001
  • Interview Exhibition Gallery Lutze. Südwestfunk 2000
  • Klaus Fleming: G.L.A.S.S. Theater Performance Report. West German broadcasting. September 1996
  • Ernst Jurgens: Atelier calls " K Line ". Culture Magazine West German broadcasting. February 1995

Literature sources

  • Klaus Fleming: transparency. Among the works of Clemens Weiss. In June. Magazine for culture and politics. Nr.2-3/89. Mönchengladbach 1989, ISSN 0931-2854
  • Walter Delabar: From my aquarium. Clemens White grabs the world in glass cases (ibid.)
  • Susanne Lingemann: Clemens Weiss - Glass shrines of knowledge. In: art - The Art Magazine. Hamburg, October 1993, ISSN 0173-2781
  • Franz Kotteder: 10 worlds for themselves and for all. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of 4 September 1997
  • Encyclopedia entry Clemens Weiss. In: Creps: Biographical encyclopedia of American painters, sculptors & engravers of the U.S. 2002, ISBN 0-9668526-1-3
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