• Ralph Gelbert Beyond The Visible
  • Ralph Gelbert Beyond The Visible
  • Ralph Gelbert Beyond The Visible
  • Ralph Gelbert Beyond The Visible
  • Ralph Gelbert Beyond The Visible
  • Ralph Gelbert Beyond The Visible

Ralph Gelbert Beyond The Visible

Ralph Gelbert’s manner of painting is impulsive, ecstatic, and at times veritably Dionysian. We are dealing here with an art form that refers back to the body, to movements that do not rely on a previously developed concept, but rather follow a physical dynamism and sensual logic. Their art historical roots can be found in art informel, which developed in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s with the goal of liberating painting from its dependence on external reality and thus allowing it to come into its own, so to speak. Viewers of Gelbert’s paintings are made privy to the volcanic energies that have become manifested within them, a sheer delight in rich and at times flamboyant colors which flow out of them, become blurred, form clouds, vortices, and striations. Fantastical spaces emerge in his works, artificial worlds which are neither illustrations of existing sites nor subjective interior spaces. And what may for some appear to be ecstatic is due not only to spontaneous impulses, but also to calculation and discipline. As with calligraphies in the spirit of Zen, the impression of spontaneity and intensity presupposes a maximum degree of self-control. (Excerpt from: Hans-Walter Schmidt, Les Paradis Artificiels)

Website Ralph Gelbert

Hardcover 23 x 30 cm 128 pages 92 color ills. English, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-858-2 2018

Artist:

Ralph Gelbert

Texts:

Jürgen Ecker, Miriam Langenscheidt, Dietmar Schuth

Design:

Julia Carbotti

Exhibitions

Vernissage
Galerie Netuschil, Darmstadt, Germany
26. – 27.05.2018

Beyond The Visible
Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Orangerie Schloss Schwetzingen, Germany
31.05 – 27.06.2018

Abstrakter Expressionismus
Kunstakademie Bad Reichenhall, Alte Saline, Germany
18.06 – 23.06.2018 / 27.08. – 01.09.2018

Beyond the Visible
Custom House Studios & Gallery
The Quay, Co.Mayo, Ireland
16.08. – 26.09.2018

Beyond the Visible
Sleek / Berlin Art Consulting, Berlin
12. – 27.10.2018

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