{"id":1025,"date":"2018-05-04T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:40:10","slug":"albrecht-schaefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/2018\/05\/04\/albrecht-schaefer\/","title":{"rendered":"Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer
Interiors, Stones
4. Mai \u2013 8. Juli 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer is known for his experimental and conceptual work, which has recently led to a surprising turn to painting. For the first time in an institutional exhibition, Kunstverein Arnsberg shows an overview of his new works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sch\u00e4fer has often conceived spatial installations for specific places or reacted with minimal interventions to their particular characteristics, for example in Lichthaus Arnsberg 2010. He has worked with a wide range of different media, always searching for new visual methods and forms of expression. Exhibitions in leading institutions and his appointment as Professor of Sculpture in Berlin testify to the wide appreciation of his work. While this radical move to painting in this sense comes unexpectedly, it is in fact a consequent development of his experimental position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eWhat does an artist like Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer do \u2013 an artist who works with minimal interventions, almost from nothing, who prefers to reduce than to produce, who would rather work with light and shadow, space and time, black and white than with brush and palette \u2013 when he withdraws to his studio to paint? He continues to work with light and shadow, space and time; only now it is no longer the exhibition space that takes centre stage, but the studio \u2013 not the site of exhibition, but that of production. Instead of working, as before, contextually and on site, and with real materials such as wood or newspaper, with painting Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer has adopted a more traditional technique that is less tied to the space of presentation. Hence, the withdrawal to the studio is also linked to a certain withdrawal from public to private space, a turning inwards, and a reflection on the basic conditions of the creative process and of perception, and on the artist\u2019s own roots and sources.\u201c writes Dorothea Zwirner in the catalogue of the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sch\u00e4fer builds a small model of his studio and makes a painting of it. This small gesture creates distance and allows the place of artistic work to be shown as an object. The studio workplace becomes a model. Sch\u00e4fer\u2019s analytic eye moves from the particularities of the exhibition space to the circumstances of the studio. This reversal leads us to the genesis of artistic work and shows his studio as a contemplative space. While the \u2018Interieurs\u2019 works show largely empty rooms, a second series \u2018Steine\u2019 (Stones) in a certain way shows the opposite. On a pedestal next to an easel, Sch\u00e4fer arranges ordinary stones. Sometimes bricks, mostly just ordinary pebbles, posing a particular challenge to the painter. They have no special relationship to their environment and are difficult to pin down in the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seen in its entirety, the \u0152uvre of Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer is also difficult to pin down. Very few artists devote themselves so consequently to painting after so many years of practice with changing media. The exhibition \u2018Interieurs, Steine\u2019 provides the opportunity to see this new group of works by Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer and is accompanied by a new catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer was born in 1967 in Stuttgart and lives in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition is supported by the Foundation for Art, Culture and Social Affairs of Sparda-Bank West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sparda-Tag:
Sonntag, 08.07.2018, 11-16 Uhr
K\u00fcnstlergespr\u00e4ch und Katalogpr\u00e4sentation mit Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Albrecht Sch\u00e4ferInterieurs, Steine4. Mai \u2013 8. Juli 2018 Der K\u00fcnstler Albrecht Sch\u00e4fer ist f\u00fcr seine experimentelle und konzeptuelle Arbeit bekannt, die ihn in den vergangenen Jahren \u00fcberraschend zur Malerei gef\u00fchrt hat. Der Kunstverein Arnsberg zeigt nun erstmals in einer institutionellen Einzelausstellung einen \u00dcberblick seiner neuen Arbeiten. Sch\u00e4fer konzipierte oft r\u00e4umliche Installationen f\u00fcr konkrete Orte oder reagierte mit […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}