Opposites with a common concept
Created: 05/11/2022, 18:52
By: Miriam Kohr
Known and appreciated each other for years: Rosa Quint and Meinhart Meyer.
© Miriam Kohr
Two artists who have known and valued each other for a long time: Rosa Quint and Meinhart Meyer open their exhibition "New Contexts" in the Kunstkreis gallery in Karlsfeld.
Karlsfeld – The Kunstkreis Karlsfeld is now starting its exhibitions again after a long break.
Two members of the association will start things off: Rosa Quint and Meinhart Meyer have called their joint exhibition “New Contexts”, and they show paintings, graphics, objects and installations.
Vernissage is this Thursday in the gallery at the Drosselanger.
The very different works of the two literally face each other in the Kunstkreis gallery.
Delicate, abstract works on paper in light tones meet large, powerful paintings of abstract landscapes.
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Rosa Quint's work is often inspired by her travels.
The colors of the landscapes, the shapes of the fields when viewed from an airplane or the atmosphere of cities are mostly abstractly captured in oil on canvas.
The pictures “malecón I” and “malecón II”, for example, refer to impressions and experiences at the El Malecón seawall in the Cuban capital Havana, a “swinging border between city and sea”, as Quint explains.
In her sculpture "City" she captures the "buoyant", "hard" and "pulsating" aspects of a big city with Plexiglas, paint and photos.
The colorfully painted and pasted glass elements rise up like skyscrapers, they seem to grow out of the stones on the ground.
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In the objects "reflection I" and "reflection II", Quint makes reference to something: in the first to female artists who have meant something to the art lecturer in recent years, and in the second to the text "Wild Thinking" by the ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss .
Here she works with wires, foils, Plexiglas, wood and other materials - also things that she had already used in other works.
She also places them in new contexts.
Meinhart Meyer is inspired by everyday life and nature.
"To put everyday worries aside, I draw abstract shapes on paper, free of shapes and colors, like others do jogging or yoga to clear their heads," says the retired art teacher.
"When the drawing is finished, I look for the connection to reality again."
Some of his drawings reminded him of insects, which he then cut out and folded and placed in a kind of showcase.
This is now part of the installation "Insect Count: Now they don't fly anymore".
Meyer picks up these “insects” again and again, sometimes putting them larger or smaller on paper behind a frame or hanging them on threads from branches.
He calls the latter, for example, “return to the biotope”.
He also has a similar motif made of plywood painted white.
"I build my installations a little differently every time, so they always have a different context to each other," he explains.
The exhibition includes paintings, graphics, objects and installations.
© Miriam Kohr
It is the second joint exhibition of the two in the Kunstkreis.
Actually, they have known each other for a long time, as they once lived close to each other in Karlsfeld.
"I then saw Rosa at an exhibition and recognized it," says Meinhart.
Since then they complement each other.
"I don't have any paper pictures with me here in Karlsfeld because this is Meinhart's medium," says Quint.
Another joint exhibition is currently running under the title "Duette" in the Weytterturm in Straubing (until June 6th).
Meyer: "Because Rosa is showing very large paintings there, I am presenting very small works there."
The exhibition "New Contexts" by Rosa Quint and Meinhart Meyer will open today, Thursday, May 12, at 7 p.m. in the Kunstwerkstatt Gallery at Drosselanger 7.
After that it will be open until May 22nd.
Opening times: 14 and 15 May and 19 and 22 May from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
