Residency Open Studios 2009

TRIANGLE OPEN STUDIOS

Took place on Saturday and Sunday, April 4th and 5th, 2009, 2-7pm. 

Triangle Arts Association was pleased to present our 2009 artists in residence: Jinsu Han, Ralf Ziervogel, and Florian and Michael Quisterbert. Residents are a rigorously selected group of national and international artists who come together to stimulate, challenge and nourish their art.  In this atmosphere, artists find the courage to question old habits, explore new possibilities and grow in their practice.

Jinsu Han

Jinsu Han’s most recent site-conditioned installations build up scenes of a natural phenomenon created by childish materials and the countless actions of simple machines. Because the processes are gradual and sensitive to the environment and its effects such as gravity, humidity and air current, the results are not only inevitable, but also accidental. They are in between certainness and uncertainness, and they grow and adapt to their own place and time coincidently. Through this, Han is dealing with the meditations in our lives and providing generous and fundamental metaphors for our commonness.

Florian and Michael Quistrebert

Brothers Florian and Michael Quistrebert have been collaborating since 2004, finding inspiration for their drawings, paintings and sculptures in various fields in contemporary  popular culture or history of Art items. Proceeding  in a four-handed, two brained or two hearted method , they have elaborated several pictorial and sculptural compositions with traditional techniques, such as tempera or bronze cast, where different mythological or art history themes are hybridized, diverted and customized, branded with an innovative reflection in relation with the low culture. Their compositions extend the synthetic logic of unlimited borrowing, using positively the wrong ways and other amalgams to create new forms and discover new colors. Their current research tends to show how New York is psychedelic.

Ralf Ziervogel

Ralf Ziervogel’s work speaks for him as a persuasive innovator in the field of drawing. He broadened its dimensions and thereby created serial as well as ornamental possibilities.His designs display a gruesomely pretty frankness and brutality – a Comedie humaine in the age of cyber space. This suggests that the artist also succeeded in marrying classical technology with contents that range from splatter to comic. In his work, bodies become cleft creatures that on the one hand reflect all imaginable metamorphoses of human being and on the other hand, acting in a hermetic system, encounter its limits. Richard Roarty demands the continuation of the occidental discourse with regard to the abdication of traditional problems, Ralf Ziervogel is pulling out all stops and brings forward a “pragmatic” extension.