Magazine for the show of Waldemar Zimbelmann and in the Gemma: Rumiko Hagiwara

Waldemar Zimbelmann ‘Father let the eyes be yours’ The Gemma:

Rumiko Hagiwara ‘Mono/Butsu’ Until 6 July

“Inspired by the 1960s and ‘70s, Waldemar Zimbelmann’s illustrations feature living subjects such as animals, children and female figures set in natural landscapes and domestic interiors. The characters reveal the cultural influences that have characterized the life of this artist, who was born into a German minority family in a rural area of Kazakhstan, which later re-emigrated to Germany when he was still a child. Zimbelmann’s works adopt a twofold approach: literary, because they seem to be inspired by an iconography that is not far removed from the dimension of myths and fairy tales; textural, through the use and inclusion of recycled materials that interact with each other, establishing a sensation of tactile perception in the viewer.”

Text: Exhibition text for “O Youth and Beauty!” with Anna Bjerger, Louis Fratino, Waldemar Zimbelmann at Museo Man, Nuoro (IT) curated by Luigi Fassi

Front: Waldemar Zimbelmann, Untitled, 2019 (detail)

Exhibition view solo exhibition at China Art Objects, Los Angeles, 2015

Untitled, 2019, 50 x 33 cm, oil on paper

Installation view Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, 2019

Untitled, 2019, 71 x 29,5 cm, acrylics on plexiglass and woodcut

Exhibition view MAN Museum, Nuoro, Italy, 2018-2019

Untitled, 2019, 90 x 70 cm, oil on canvas

Recently Zimbelmann has had a three-person exhibition entitled ‘Oh Youth and Beauty” at Museo MAN in Nuoro (IT, 2018-19) together with Anna Bjerger and Louis Fratino curated by Luigi Fassi. Zimbelmann’s work further more recently has been included in the group exhibition Selections ‘From the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection’, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and he has had solo exhibitions at Meyer Riegger, Berlin Karlsruhe and at China Art Objects Los Angeles.

Solo presentation by Waldemar Zimbelmann at Art-O-Rama, Marseille, 30 Aug - 1 Sep, 2019

Untitled, 2019, 50 x 40,3 cm, oil on paper

Rumiko Hagiwara

Copy of white paper II, 2019 29.7 x 21cm photocopy, framed, unique in a series ( 3 times limit + 1AP)

mono/butsu, 2019 sound installation, dimension variable pedestal, title plate, audio player, motor, drawing

‘Mono/ Butsu’ is a new sound installation by Rumiko Hagiwara based on a Japanese Character that found its origin in China, meaning “object” however by its travel through time and borders new connotations were added to the character. Within the installation Hagiwara reads out loud its multiple interpretations, varying from “something” to “nothing”. The work of Rumiko Hagiwara focuses on the subtle and ordinary things from our daily life. The artist’s minimal interventions do not add, but rather address and point out the memories that space or language contains as a result of human action and behaviour, or how migration of the body or the object/ word from its original context often leads to misunderstandings. Nevertheless simultaneously these renewed readings give glance to the ordinary, and highlight the poetry of the traces of daily life.

Alongside ‘Mono/ Butsu’ the artist also shows the outdoor intervention “Weed”, containing a Wikipedia text on a Hortus-like plate about ‘Weed’ installed next to bits of weed in between the tiles in front of the gallery. Descripted as ‘A plant in the wrong place’; unintentionally poetic and metaphoric for the right wing rhetoric of these times.

Nothing, becoming something.

WEED, 2016 /2019 Site-specific installation, title plate, weeds Edition 25 222 euro (ex 9% BTW/VAT)

Colophon Exhibitions run until 6 July, 2019 For more information please contact the gallery ( info@althuishofland.com ) Photos on page 6,7,22,23 by Fabian Fraikin

Althuis Hofland Fine Arts

Drawing of silence 2017, 40 x 15cm pencil on paper