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Schwer - Orion am Deutschen Eck.
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Paul Schwer was born in 1951 and first practiced medicine before he started studying arts with Erwin Heerich at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 1980s. Since then he is consequently pursuing his own concept of painting, which deals with colour, space, light and motion. Transparent materials like cloth, polyester film, panes of glass and Plexiglas, which Paul Schwer provides gesturally with pigment and screen printing ink, consistently lead to new perceptions when combined with neon light and spot light.
For the Ludwig Museum Paul Schwer designed a walk-in installation, wherein the visitor will have to find his way up the staircase to the centre. Through a seemingly unsystematic ensemble of fluorescent tubes, in which pieces of furniture are floating, the visitor is “beamed” into the Bel-Étage. Here, Paul Schwer’s characteristically curved panes of Plexiglas, called Baozis (name of Chinese dumplings), alternate with hemispheres reminding of igloos in the same way as his rectangular, hovering and luminescent objects covered with digital printings à la "Xing Zhuang 2" alternate with mural painting.
Paul Schwer's picture, which at the beginning is also still two-dimensional, moves into the room, it loosens from wall, ceiling and floor. The pictorial design virtually becomes a baroque “horror vacui“. In a „planetary“ arrangement of Paul Schwer’s works, laid-out like microcapsules – similar to the constellation Orion – the room is filled with colour and light in a holistic manner.
With a huge installation of colour and light the exhibition continues outside the Ludwig Museum. Especially for Koblenz, right at the ancient wall of the Deutsches Eck (German Corner) Paul Schwer will construct one of his “Bautafel-Paintings” (4 x 6 m), which will be visible far along the Rhine riverbank: Orion am Deutschen Eck (Orion at Deutsches Eck).
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue "Paul Schwer – Orion, Installation, Plastik, Malerei" with contributions by Martin Engler, Stephan Berg, Isabelle Malz, Beate Reifenscheid, Barbara Strieder. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2008 (128 Pages, 20,00 Euro)
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Schwer - Orion am Deutschen Eck.
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Opening hours
Tue to Sat: 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sun and holidays: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
We are open on Easter Monday!
Admission
Adults 4€, concessions 2€
Children and teenagers: admission free
In addition to the exhibition we offer exciting and educational creative activities!
For example:
Giottissimo! - From Padua to Berlin!
Who was Giotto di Bondone? (part 1)
And why does Evgeni Dybsky want to “reconstruct” his frescos? (part 2)
Wednesday, 22 and 29 April: 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
After the talk you are welcome to join us for a chat with a cup of tea in the restaurant Blumenhof.
With Rolf Ohly and Christine Morsbach
Admission: 4€ per Wednesday
Both dates can be booked separately, too.
No boredom during you Easter vacation!
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Workshop I, for children aged six years +, 10.30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Workshop II, for children ages eight years +, 10.30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Together with other little art lovers you can trace the footsteps of the artists Paul Schwer and Evgeni Dybsky. Discover their works! After that you will build rainmakers, kaleidoscopes, neon balls, spaceships, or you will create modern frescos like Evgeni Dybsky…
Fee: 12 € for each workshop, incl. materials
Registration starts now!
For further information and for the registration please contact:
info@ludwigmuseum.org and 02613-040416
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