In our auction house in Essen Bredeney have you now have the opportunity to get to know art and culture in addition to auctions or the museum space. We are therefore particularly pleased to present Heinrich Siepmann, Mari Prete and Nike Seifert , a broad spectrum of contemporary art in our first three exhibitions.
Heinrich Siepmann - 10. March to 10. April 2023
Heinrich Siepmann was born in 1904 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and committed himself to art with the artist group "Junger Westen" for at that time. Thus, he was chosen in our house as an absolutely predestined first artist to which we dedicate an exhibition.
Siepmann belongs to the so-called second generation of constructivism. While artist how Kasimir Malevich or Piet Mondrian are to be mentioned as pioneers and main representatives of Constructivism, "Siepmann's object moves within these once set boundaries. In it, however, he develops a very original visual language, which not is lastly influenced by the German Informel, to which he made an important contribution in one phase of his work. Sensuality and intellect, emotion and calculation combine on in a way that gains from constructivism and painting a new and very own quality."
- Heinrich Siepmann. Monograph. catalogue of works of the paintings, ed. by Ferdinand Ullrich, with texts by: Uli Bohnen, Sabine Fehlemann, Siegfried Gnichwitz, Eugen Gomringer, Anette Müller-Held, Uwe Obier, Karl Ruhrberg, Heiner Stachelhaus, Jürgen Wißmann, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 1999.
Through the oeuvre, the development of the artist is clearly visible: The first works show his environment and industrial landscapes. In the following decades, he develops his own formal language and moves through still life and compositions to the unfigurative painting. Until the precise image design that would determine his canon of works. In the process, Siepmann reconsiders the set frames, forms, their arrangements, the color areas, line management and the resulting effect of the image. Essential elements of form, color, light and space are all explored in each individual object of the artist to combine his individual vision of space and time with the generally valid principles of concrete geometric art.
for the artist the fascination of a picture was that that it it opens up spaces, becomes a window. In this way, Siepmann follows the long art-historical and design tradition in the 20th century, in which art is always a window to the world.
Mari Prete - 1. Mai to 15. June 2023
Mari Prete is a young outstanding artist who specializes in the art of photography since the early 2000s on . Born and raised in Armenia, she graduated for theater and film from Yerevan State University. Today and the internationally active artist lives and works in Europe.
In the presented works of the group of works "Flower Portraits" an actual portrait of a flower is created, completely in the traditional manner of human portrait painting or photography in front of often monochrome or slightly iridescent backgrounds. However, it are in no way photomontages intended to embellish, idealize, alienate or distort. The essence of the motifs is formed from everyday conditions and natural processes that are set in composition, form and coloring, light and shadow, as well as depth effect already at the beginning of each macro photography.
it are one-shot works that receive only a touch-up to highlight the particular characteristics of the subject on gently way - quite in line with the high quality of the final works.
Almost experimentally, the artist on the own works and translates elements of other genres in her photography. So can be seen, for example, in the bar view 'Good Times' on closer inspection, that Mari Prete the technique of "Peinture en grisaille", in which gray tones harmonize with each other until they imitate rock or even marble in the finest painting. The painterly glazing technique, in which wafer-thin layers of paint are applied on top of each other, was already used to create medieval altars, in museum works of the Renaissance and Dutch masterpieces.
The works of the artist helps to sharpen the own view, in order to perceive the beauty also in small moments, small things, how an almost completely withered bloom. In order on personal way for to be able to interpret and independently to understand, that it things on the world gives, for the it is worthwhile to live. Because, how often we humans it also try, so is the life in the end not plannable and also not predictable. Which is why a constructed image could never carry such power, how one that has emerged from the natural (art historically speaking "fertile") moment.
it are simple, clear and thereby so profound, touching and vivid motifs that show the viewer the most diverse aspects of life: Joie de vivre, love, self-esteem, confidence, beauty and much more. Mari Prete has found through her work a contemporary and light form in which precisely this process imbued with freedom - which is what art is all about - can be found.
Nike Seifert - 1. July to 20. August 2023
Nike Seifert was born in 1970 and worked as a gilder after her apprenticeship. Since 2012 she is a freelance artist, which probably not only describes her profession, but also the implementation of her profession: When painting she is free and lets herself be freely guided by her works, traces them and reaches the final object after spontaneous attempts, distortions, overpaintings and accompanying new decisions during the creative process. The Cologne artist became known through polychrome painting of her canvases, which are applied in layers, removed, torn and again covered with varnish until they develop into color-heavy panels.
Difficult they are, because they carry every "Um- decision" that make the picture what it ultimately is. Thereby Nike Seifert goes each time with the object into a dialogue, tries to emphasize qualities and work characteristics, which constitute the painting.
As an artist she is motivated to try herself out anew and to grow. Thus Nike Seifert follows the artistic tradition of "reinventing oneself". To concretize this intention Nike Seifert has gone to the master class of the world-renowned Prof. Markus Lüpertz . After more than 3 years she has completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Kolbermoor now quite recently as a master student and received her diploma. As an artist she would like to on new techniques, methods and join. She works with pigments, with varnish, with painter's knives, with brushes, with their own hands and trying to open up new paths for themselves.
"More figurative, representational, more with brushes, more painterly," so she herself describes the difference. Classical exercises of painting train the sense for space and light. Spaces are created, still lifes are expanded. So For example, the animal world has opened up as a classical pictorial theme for her. A motif that is known throughout art history and now on such atmospheric way is presented in her oeuvre. The atmosphere is created by combining it with her already familiar painting style. The glazing color application, the depth of the images, the overpaintings, all this can be found after how still with her.
Furthermore, she also fights through the abstract works, for known to her. Cracks, craters, shapes, structure, color, all this comes together in the various formats. Always in connection with nature, trees, self-experienced situations. Virtually symbolic elements of nature of earth, fire, air and water can be seen in her works through abstract tree bark, volcanoes and ice floes. So that the title Napoli of this strong yellow painting quite reminiscent of the warmth of the sun, the summer and juicy lemons of the Amalfi Coast.
Essential seems to be a certain sensitivity, subtlety, courage and an openness to the works, which she demonstrates through her method itself.
