UNTITLED ART MIAMI BEACH 2023

For Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2023, KORNFELD Galerie Berlin is pleased to present the works of artists Agnes Lammert (born 1984 in Dresden, Germany), David Meskhi (born 1979 in Tbilisi, Georgia), Dieter Jung (born 1941 in Bad Wildungen, Germany), Johanna Reich (born 1977 in Minden, Germany), Lena Keller (born 1980 in Heidelberg, Germany), Nick Dawes (born 1969 in Johannesburg, South Africa), and Youjin Yi (born 1980 in Gangneung, South Korea).

Our presentation of works by seven artists combine different media, moving between the analog and digital world, and shifting between a sense of calmness and mystery.
Lena Keller invites the viewer to look at nature and landscapes through the relationship between man and nature through a digital lens. In a similar vain Johanna Reich explores the boundaries of real, virtual, and painterly imagery through raising awareness about our relationship to the natural world. Both artists focus their work around interconnection between the analog and the digital world, how they intertwine and how they interfere with one another.
Working both analog and digitally, Dieter Jung counts as a pioneer in artistic holography, playing with light and creating almost meditational pieces. These artists bring a sense of calmness to the viewer, coming together beautifully with the large scale painterly abstractions by Nick Dawes.
In addition David Meskhi's almost abstract like photographies reminisce the concept of colorfield observed in the above mentioned artists. The mysterious and semi abstract sculptures by Agnes Lammert bring in an element of three dimensionality, that go well with Youjin Yi’s curious landscapes showing the presence of mysterious figures and hybrids.

Agnes Lammert

Agnes Lammert presents her sculptures in which something seems to be packed or wrapped, but whose content we can never determine with certainty. They seem as if they could be wet and heavy. The outlines of the forms wrapped in cloth are reminiscent of human bodies, thus suggesting the absence of man. Or are they even ghosts, moulded from plaster?
Inspired by dance such as Japanese Butoh, states of movement such as holding, falling, rising, improvising are evident in her work.

David Meskhi

David Meskhi’s backgrounds and the figures depicted in the works become abstractions focusing on colors and the human figure converted almost into landscape like shapes. He captured mostly athletes during their training, creating aesthetic compositions of men seemingly floating in air in a moment of weightlessness.
His imagery is poetic, raises connotations of sexuality, belief and expresses a common urge of the youth to free itself from social boundaries. The desire to return to early lightheartedness, which have been deeply felt especially in youth and adolescence.The questions of masculinity and femininity in different ways of life, escapism and idealism. What is natural and mystical? What is earthly and what is possibly divine.

Dieter Jung

Dieter Jung orchestrates a ballet of luminosity, where colors pirouette with emotions and space harmonizes with movement. Since the mid-1960s, Jung has embarked on an alchemical exploration, deciphering the enigma of color and light, and the interplay of surface and space, each stroke illuminating an intricate thread in the tapestry of his creation.
His works encapsulate radiant hues that weave narratives, and the world of holography transcends its visual boundaries, inviting us to traverse the thresholds of light and experience existence's harmonious composition. It is an immersive experience, encouraging us to discover bigger complex possibilities of being in the beauty of light and eventually connecting it to the beauty of life. In the realm of art, Dieter Jung emerges as a conductor of illumination, guiding us to perceive the universe's waltz with fresh eyes.

Johanna Reich

Johanna Reich works at the interface between digital and analog visual worlds. Many of her works are created on the basis of several years of research, in which the artist investigates and changes gaps in history, complex backgrounds of coding such as the opaque influence of databases on the development of algorithms and the resulting image production.
The HYBRIDS work cycle shows canvases made of natural linen covered with a few traces of paint; behind the traces, words made of light appear in a pulsating rhythm. The human and the digital are inextricably woven together in these works.

Lena Keller

Before working on the canvas with oil paint and brush, Lena Keller often constructs the landscape spaces from digitally manipulated photo fragments. Representational images combine with supposedly virtual influences to create a new pictorial reality of their own.
Her view on landscape and natural spaces oscillates between longing and alienation. The desire/need for connection and preservation of the world is contrasted with the exponential technological development, through which man builds up a distance between himself and nature.

Nick Dawes

Nick Dawes’ ability to control complex tonal arrangements and the juxtaposition of irregular shapes give his works their unique and striking appeal. The unified flatness of his paintings also contrive to present us with various possibilities of space – of proximity and distance. Each point sends us shutting to another area of color, which in turn persuades us to examine yet a third, and so on.
Every painting Nick Dawes creates represents the time it was made in, how he felt and what his influences were in this particular moment. The impossibility of ever recreating this exact emotional state makes each work unique. With various possibilities of distance – of nearness and of farness.
The works themselves start out as small drawings and sketches based on texts appropriated from driving instruction manuals and other sign-like quotidian objects.

Youjin Yi

In her multifaceted artistic language, Youjin Yi unites objective references and abstract, painterly structures. Her works depict landscape spaces occupied by persons, animals, objects or hybrids. Seemingly dematerialized they fuse with their environment, emerge or take shape.
The motifs want to challenge, want to be deciphered and yet often remain in the realm of fantasy.
She combines lines and surfaces in the paintings; acrylic, oil, oil pastel, and graphite meet free background. Youjin Yi sometimes paints and draws directly on canvas, but much more often on paper, which she works on lying on the floor. She then glues traditional Korean paper, worked in several layers, onto wood or canvas.