POETRY IN MOTION

 
TILO KAISER  
 
 
 
   
OPENING RECEPTION
THURSDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2011, 6-9PM,
ARTIST WILL BE PRESENT
   
   
EXHIBITION DURATION
10 NOV - 2 DEC, 2011
 
   
EXHIBITION ADDRESS
SIN SIN FINE ART
53-54 SAI STREET, CENTRAL, HONG KONG
 
 
Asian Art
Just a good Painting, Mixed media on canvas

Sin Sin Fine Art is delighted to present the solo exhibition of a Contemporary German artist, Tilo Kaiser, held from 10 November to 2 December. The exhibition will feature a collection of the artist’s most recent “visual poems”, colourful on canvases, culturally diverse, challenging in all senses and full of hidden suggestive messages.


Tilo Kaiser is a collagist, a multi-media artist and a collector of images with an inherent love to the drawn line. Born and raised in post-war Germany, Tilo’s art has been influenced as much by German art movements as by Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Pattern Painting, Computer Games, Comic Drawing and Graffiti. Surrounded by the universal icons of popular culture from MAD to Mickey Mouse, advertising illustrations of all sorts and Hollywood movies, he has adopted these fast and ever changing influences of colours, images, contents and styles, and combined them with painterly traditions to his series of “painted drawings” and multimedia collages.


In his series of “painted drawings”, Tilo uses multi-colour crayons to draft doodled fragments of imagery borrowed from all corners of life. What seems random is meticulously planned. Afterwards, he paints around these crayon lines sparing them from the massive colour of “background”.


Regardless of time and space, he creates swiftly executed and colourful drawings consisting of abstract shapes, figurative elements and fragments there of. Tilo draws all the time, everywhere he goes and on almost any form and shape of paper found.


His multimedia collage works show a repeating rhythm of collage and painting. He juxtaposes drawings, layer after layer onto canvases in a procedure that reverses the process of paper-making; thus he constructs his paintings from fragments of paper, newsprint and tissue-paper of all origins that combined with painted elements ranging from gouache to spray-paint and from pencils to oil-sticks.


"The images themselves are exotic and exciting… but try to find meaningful context here… you are lost… they are a visual hymn against the belief that things can be categorized neatly and orderly." Tilo Kaiser.


Sin Sin Fine Art 將於 11月10日 至 12 月2日舉辦當代德國藝術家Tilo Kaiser個人展覽──”Poetry in Motion,展示並特別推介藝術家最新的一批色彩斑爛、多元文化、具挑戰性及含有暗示性信息的「視覺詩品」(visual poems) 。


Tilo是一個拼貼及多媒體藝術家;因為與生俱來喜愛繪畫的線條,他亦是一位圖像收藏家。出生並成長於戰後的德國,Tilo的藝術不但受到本土德國畫風影響,同時亦受到戰後影響藝術界的各種運動所同化,包括普普藝術、抽象表現主義、圖案畫、電子遊戲、漫畫及街頭塗鴉。由MAD到米奇老鼠,廣告插畫及荷里活電影,Tilo 吸收了這些大眾文化快速及不斷改變的色彩、圖像、內容、風格,再融合傳統的繪畫而產生了他一系列的「繪畫」及多媒體拼貼作品。


在藝術家的「繪畫」系列中,他用豐富色彩的蠟筆,漫不經心地把生活中不同角落的影像繪畫成畫布上的不同片段。看似隨意的東西實是細心的部署;然後,他在這些蠟筆線條的四周塗上厚厚的背景顏色。他不停地繪畫,不論何時何地或任何類型的紙張,他都能敏捷地創作他富色彩的抽象形狀、象徵性的元素及片段。


他的多媒體拼貼作品展現出一個繪畫及拼貼循環的韻律。他把畫像並置,然後一層一層地拼貼到畫布上,好像與紙張製作步驟剛剛相反。故此,他的作品融合了各類型的紙張、報紙、草稿紙及各類由水粉顏料到噴漆;由鉛筆到油條等繪畫顏料。


「這些圖像本身是奇特並讓人興奮的…不過如果想在它們中間找出有意義的內容…你將會落空,因為它們不過是在世上沒有秩序規則的信念下所產生的視覺韻律罷…。」Tilo Kaiser。