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Wolfgang Herbold
Lives and works in Germany.
Zabriskie points – A cartography of fragments
“Wolfgang Herbold transforms existing visual results like photographs, Illustrations, screen shots, he is using digital processes leaving hardly any hint about, what has been the surface before. The microcosm of his images is fragmented and gives expression to the pleasure of de-hierarchysation.Everything is in a state of flux, caught in processes of metamorphosis. The malleability of the reality stored in the image is celebrated sensuously and the transformation of all visible phenomena is declared to be the sole constant. The pull of the fragment unfolds a startling appeal and suggests the beauty of ever new, unstable compounds. The elements enter into new relations, each particle can become an attractor and radiate a force field which holds the embedded graphic particle right up to the periphery. Relations act at a distance, everything is connected with everything else, but the family relations remain extremely distanced. A segment of a circle leads, on a long leash, a black scribble which approaches an orange patch of colour which in turn had its analogue origin in the medical image of a blood test.”
Sabine Fabo
Some Work Examples:
©Wolfgang Herbold – Superman1.31. – Digital Art, Diasec, 71×47″ ED.3
©Wolfgang Herbold – e_02-05-06_1-k, Digital Image, 2006
©Wolfgang Herbold – 14-08-2006_a-kl, Digital Image, 2006
©Wolfgang Herbold – pinkshot_16-05-2006_4,
Digital Image, 2006
New Reality, Science and Confusion
The creative use of all image producing appliances finds its resonance in the chaotic and yet organized worlds of drawings. About the experiences in daily life, between order and chaos the viewer is sent on a discovery trip. It’s the creation of a world through free and organized brushstrokes. The awakening and creation of reduced, but yet fascinating, surreal elementary worlds. The scientific technical profane iconography is hereby experimentally and playfully used as basis.
Gregor Jansen
©Wolfgang Herbold – z_290911_03, Drawing, 2011
©Wolfgang Herbold – z_06-03-05_01, Drawing, 2005
©Wolfgang Herbold – Untitled – metal: water cut and Nexel powder coated black object
Exhibitions | Ausstellungen
DREIUNDZWANZIG. BBK-Jahresausstellung. Aachen 2023
Zeitreise. Kunsthaus Eurode, Herzogenrath 2023
Full House. Produzentengalerie BB, Aachen 2022
Das Wissen des Objekts ist unendlich. BBK Kleine Galerie. Aachen 2022 *
Die Farbe Weiß. Kulturwerk Aachen, Kunstladen. 2022
The Future That Lies Behind Us. OMC Gallery. Los Angeles 2012
Tribute to Black on White Part II. OMC Gallery. Los Angeles 2011
Wicked Panels of Desire. OMC Gallery. Los Angeles 2010 *
Revisiting Beauty. Orange County Center For Contemporary Art. Santa Ana California 2010
It Took A While To Find These Things. OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art. Los Angeles 2009
Draughtman’s delight. OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art. Los Angeles 2009
“Illiterature” curated by Mark Carter.Limn Art Gallery. San Francisco 2008/2009
Sherry Frumkin Gallery – Arena 1/Santa Monica Art Studios. Los Angeles 2009
Take A Chance. OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art. Los Angeles 2008
Mein Gen das hat fünf Ecken. ZKM | Museum für Moderne Kunst. Karlsruhe 2007
ART Made in Germany. OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art. Los Angeles 2007
Serendipity-Effekt. KUK. Monschau 2006
Interkontinental. OMC Galerie. Düsseldorf 2004
Seduction – Verführung. OMC Galerie. Düsseldorf 2003
Seoul International Media Art Biennale Media_City Seoul. Seoul Museum of Art. Seoul. Korea 2002
Zeichenwege zur menschlichen Natur. OMC Galerie. Düsseldorf 2001 *
Superman in bed – Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie – Sammlung Schürmann.Museum am Ostwall. Dortmund 2001
Solar-Institut Jülich. Jülich 2001 *
Die Kunst gesehen zu werden. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein. Aachen 2001
Internationale Möbelmesse. Passagen – Interior Design. Köln 2001
Deep Distance Die Entfernung der Fotografie. Kunsthalle Basel. Basel 2000
Someone else with my Fingerprints. David Zwirner Gallery, New York/Galerie Hauser&Wirth, Zürich/August Sander Archiv-SK Stiftung Kultur. Köln 1997/98
* Single Exhibition/Einzelausstellung
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