Works of art on and made of paper
Works on paper such as drawings and prints offer a good introduction to collecting art, with prices starting in the three-digit range - and are pleasingly well represented at this year's start of the season.
"I, Water" iron blue print (cyanotype) on paper by Tiziana Jill Beck in the Rundgaenger Gallery.
How we meet in the Discovery Gallery Rundgænger in the Bahnhofsviertel - the name refers to the tours at the art academies - we encounter the swimming pool works by Leipzig artist Tiziana Jill Beck. With the title "I, Water", the master student of Christoph Ruckhäberle processes her reading of the speech "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace. The works on paper and cyanotypes are aesthetically reminiscent of David Hockney or Henri Matisse.
Less than five hundred meters away, also on Niddastrasse, the large-format drawings and murals by Katja Davar (*1968 in London) are on display at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art can be seen. Playing with immersive spaces, the artist creates worlds that combine social processes, scientific findings and art-historical references.
"Bobbin Tales From Landscape Blues" by Katja Davar on view at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art.
Change to the Fahrgasse: The Greulich Gallery is showing Jan Schmelcher (*1968), who studied illustration at the Frankfurt Academy for Communication & Design and subsequently American Studies and Art History at Goethe University Frankfurt. He presents a series of drawings that deal with hedonism at the end point of the utopian narratives of the 60s and 70s.
By appropriating found mass media images, Jan Schmelcher's artistic practice revolves around themes such as imagination, sentimentality and machismo, filtered through nostalgia and irony - on display at Galerien Greulich.
Further works on paper await the public in the nearby Maurer Gallery. In the exhibition "Paper and Space", the gallery owner is showing paper objects by the artists Alexandra Deutsch and Hannelore Weitbrecht, who both deal with the medium of paper as an expansive sculpture in their artistic work. The exhibition "Verwerfung" in the Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche in the Bahnhofsviertel also shows works on paper by Vahid Hakim (Tehran) and Jörg Ahrnt (Frankfurt). Jörg Ahrnt's works on paper form circular color gradients, starting from a point outside the picture. The rhythmic brushstrokes resemble graphemes that the eye follows, but which cannot be deciphered.
Jörg Ahrnt, Vahid Hakim "Dislocation" Sep 08 - Nov 18
