The Kunstverein Ellwangen is showing the works of the three winners of the Ellwangen Art Prize 2024, donated by the Karl-Heinz Knoedler Foundation, as well as the positions of the 15 winners of this year’s competition.
Introduction: Cindy Mölges and Dilini Keetapongalan, jurors.
A catalogue was published for the exhibition.
Ground Lines, 2024
Drawing with earth and rock on canvas, 500 x 120 cm
Earth used:
City field (Stuttgart-North), 2024
Excavation pit Rosensteinpark Stuttgart, 2015
Rügen chalk, Rügen
Andalusian brown ochre, Spain
Slate flour grey-green, stone chalk
Red earth from Argentina, 1999
Green earth from Kirchberg/Jagst, 2023
Red earth from Algeria, 2005
Cote D’Azur violet, Switzerland
Red earth from Cape Town (District 6), 2017
Ochre from Gundelfingen (on the slope towards Dürrenstetten), 2016
Red earth from Italy (in the Tuscany region), 2023
Earth from the Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, USA, 2023
Opal red, semi-precious stone, Arizona, USA
Green opalite, Colorado, USA
Ochre from the Taunus, from the Upper Lahn region
Oil shale from Bad Boll, Germany
ARRANGEMENT, 2024
Drawing, Lumocolor marker on transparent paper, six sheets, layered, sewn, 74 x 50 cm,
The drawing serves to design the arrangement of the lines on the canvas.
The lines were arranged according to geographical aspects. Tracing paper was first placed on a world map and a map of Germany to connect the marked points (places) from which the earth and stone pigments used originate. These sheets were completed layer by layer, with the underlying drawing again serving as a template. Drawings were created from a network of lines and geometric shapes. In the second top sheet, lines were again freely taken from the (geometric) context from all the layers; this design served as a kind of model for the arrangement of the lines on the canvas. Seventeen (coloured) lines were applied to the canvas, then the perspective was changed and a further seventeen lines were applied. On the tracing paper above, neon yellow lines mark the arrangement of the current and last application on the canvas.
I have been bringing back earth and rock from my travels for many years, special pigments, especially ground rock, I get from Kremer Pigmente, oil shale rock from a mill in Bad Boll. I have been working artistically with oil shale and the associated themes of geological history, memories and the Anthropocene for over 25 years.
The drawing created for Ellwangen Castle is a further development of the work abtragen; auftragen; wegtragen, which was shown for the first time in 2015 in the Ebene 0 project space / in the Züblin car park in Stuttgart. Last year, I had the opportunity to make and present the spatial drawing in the Orangerie in Kirchberg/Jagst especially for this space. As it was clear that I couldn’t draw directly on the parquet floor in the castle in Ellwangen, it was a new experience to conceive the work differently and apply the lines to a canvas. Together with the drawing, it will be presented in this form for the first time in the rooms of the castle.
The exhibition was on view until August 18, 2024.
Exhibition from Sunday, June 23 to August 18, 2024.
Photos: Drawing with earth and rock pigments on canvas, 500 x 210 cm, drawing for work (wall), 74 x 50 cm, 2024, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb.
