Press Releases from GAM | Galerie Obrist am Museum (4 total)
Helge Emmaneel's photographic "painting of light"
In a new exhibition the Essen GAM / Obrist Gallery shows photographs of Helge Emmaneel. The Hamburg based artist employs techniques of simplification in his photography. He deliberately uses an old camera from the sixties, an Agfa Click with a single shutter speed and few aperture settings. This outmoded tool allows him to give his pictures a sensorially visionary charge simply through multiple exposure.
It's important to realise that Emmaneel works…
New sculptures and collages of Robin Horsch
In the current exhibition GAM Obrist Gallery in Essen shows sculptures, paintings and collages of Robin Horsch. The gallery has been cooperating with the Muelheim based artist as long ago as 2000, and has continuously shown his stages of developement in solo exhibitions. The upcoming exhibition exclusively shows works of the recent two years.
Horsch became famous with his thin and tall wooden figures, which were originally inspired by etruscan bronzes.…
Video art at Obrist Gingold Gallery
September 5 to October 18, 2008, GAM Obrist Gingold Galerie shows an exhibition of Julia Willms, titled "Revision". In the focus of the exhibition is the same-named video installation, but also photo collages and drawings of the Amsterdam and Vienna based artist will be seen.
"Revision" is an audio-visual installation for a window. A projection screen shows a view outside of a window pretending to be a real window. Slowly, the…
Drawings of Wes Mills in Essen
From May to July 2008 recent works of the American artist Wes Mills will be shown at GAM Obrist Gallery in Essen. Wes Mills was born 1960 in Tucson, Arizona and lives near Missoula in Montana, USA. He became famous in the US through various gallery and museum exhibitions from New York to San Francisco. In Europe he became known to a wider public, when some of his drawings were…
