Art as Implicit Substance存在中的真實

Reinhard Blank: Art as Implicit Substance

德國藝術家 Reinhard Blank: 存在中的真實

Luchia Meihua Lee

Reinhard Blank has located his Spiritual Garden on a hill behind his studio. This piece is a set of four walk-in wooden sculptures connected by a metal walkway, and there we find that his work combines natural strength and spiritual softness; it is rational, minimal and conceptual. Instead of splashing his emotions about, the artist is revealed by the substances he employs – by his recurrent use of materials that can be returned to nature: earth pigment on unprimed canvas, water, and steel. This is not surprising in the son of a farmer with academic art training. Blank always wears a humble smile, whether despite or because of his pursuit of complex philosophical ideas.

Space sculpture- Garden of 4 Elements, each cabin 3 X 3 m;
built in 2014. Chosen in 2018 as a model and architectural
inspiration in the Allgau region by Architekt forum e.V.
after a review by an international panel of professional architects.

Space sculpture- Garden of 4 Elements

Blank is highly trained in the ideas of the Bauhaus School in Design and Art in Germany, in industrial design, simple abstract design, and as a machinist, plus research and dedication to philosophy, and needs to immerse himself in natural environments such as his beloved Allgäu region of Bavaria.

Five forms of self-reflection:  each 96 X 250 cm,  Obsidian pigment on Japanese paper, 2019

He expresses purity in his works and has a precise grasp of the subtleties of three-dimensional shape. These traits also appear in his flat paintings. Minimalists do not add their emotions to the works, preferring to let the art object present its own characteristics. The geometry of Blank's work is more like Bauhaus's ingenious design and follows his literacy of the void, where solidity and emptiness are interlaced and complementary, with steel and water each representing both states and constrained in time with mathematical rigor.

Shadow of Mind, Steel,

Pigment on canvas

42 X 42 X 6,5 cm

2007

One of his landscape sculptures, Sky Mirror, was commissioned for a garden and combines small ponds, water sculpture, steel sculpture, natural landscapes, and calming geometric shapes. The structure, is in perfect harmony with the garden, dialoguing with its numerous rare flowers and plants. Another imaginative use of reflection may be found in his church door design where a small cross reflects the grassy area in front of the church. The resulting elegant and carefully calculated composition in steel and flowing water can be found in many of his sculpture pieces. The variation in the flow of water, and consequently in the configuration of the water surface, induces a corresponding change in the reflection of the sky and the ambient light, which is particularly mesmerizing. The work catches and re-radiates the changing mood in the nature environment and the passage of the seasons, and in its stillness is dynamic.

Sky Mirror: Steel, granite, water;  350 X 205 X 45 cm ; 2007

Introspection, Pigment on canvas

80 X 80 cm, 2015  

Substances always give the thought a shape 

and the thought returns the substances a form. 

Coordinates: Pigment, multiplex; 48 X 99 cm; 2018
Life movement staggers between space and time.

Reinhard Blank: Art as Implicit Substance
存在中的真實

August 10 - exhibit preview, concert and opening reception @Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca Cannaregio, F.TA San Andrea 4118, 30121 Venezia

Curator: Luchia Meihua Lee 

August 10 – September 1, 2019

Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Cannaregio 4118, Venice

Vernissage in

Saturday 10th August

Concert: at 5 pm ‘L’Offerta Musicale’ Director Enrico Parravicini Church of Santa Sofia Strada Nova, 4193,

30121 Venezia VE, Italia

Presentation and visit exhibition

at 6 pm

Albeizzi-Capello Palace

Exhibition’s Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday

10:00-13:00 ; 15:00-18:00

Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca Cannaregio, F.TA San Andrea 4118, 30121 Venezia

Installation view video

A view to a sutra, 100 X 75 cm Pigment on canvas
I opened a sutra; suddenly I saw the frame around the text

Artist statement

What I am looking for is the simplest forms to comprehend the world. I dedicated most of my time and energy to philosophy. Inspired by Artist Piet Mondrian, Art historian Hans Joachim Albrecht1, and influenced by ‘Structures and dynamics of empirical theories’ of Wolfgang Stegmüller, I have transformed my artwork toward rational and conceptual expression through geometric structures.

At the beginning my work concentrated on the visual presentation of theoretical structures. Later I found that my geometric base vocabulary can be correlated with Earth symbolism; hence I can process my interests (the relationships between the world, the human body, and the mind) into images.

Behind the simple pictorial forms stands a mathematical structure that takes into account width, length, area, volume, proportions, space, mass, weight, an Fibonacci sequence to produce an aesthetic view and effect with implicit and metaphorical statements.

My work is a product of a specific focus on the world that we live in and serves as a mirror for ourselves. In the beginning, we are embedded in a predetermined but unforeseeable background; however, the continued and inevitable interactions reformat and re-shape us.

In my work, I try to develop a harmonious, meditative character inviting self-contemplation. This reveals my innermost concern with consciousness – a seemingly comprehensible, mechanical structure, modified by a transcendence beyond the limits of rationality and hence unknowable.

1. He wrote that the structure of science, that can be elaborated clearly only by math, is too complicated to be transformed by means of geometric structure to visual terms.

Twelve Apostles, Steel, copper, glass, Invited Design of
The Main door of Church Kinderlehrkirche.
2011 built in Memmingen, Germany

The Tree of Life, Sculpture model. Original commissioned 

sculpture:  Ceramic, Steel. Total height with base 240 cm

2007. The primordial principles,

the law of three. A creation of three forces defined 

as positive, negative and neutral.  

Reinhard Blank

Born in Memmingen, Germany. 

Lives and works in Thal Atelier, Bad Grönenbach, Germany. 

MFA, The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany.

Selected Awards/Honors

Arts Prize, City Memmingen, Germany.

Special Artist Prize (Küstlersonderpreis), Marktoberdorf, Germany.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Visual Structure Theory - Tractatus of Ludwig Wittgensteins, associated with a lecture about how to reconstruct Tractatus, University of Ulm, Germany.

Aesthetics of Void, Kreuzherrnsaal, Memmingen, Germany.

Poesie der Unterscheidung, Schloss Hohlenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

experiment konkret - Eugen Komringer zum 80, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany.

Sammlerkonzepte, Kunstspeicher Museum, Würzburg, Germany.

Selected Public Art/Design

Interpretation from Trinity with Minimalsystemen der Selbstreferenz, Ceiling Design (size 99 m2), Trinity Church, Ravensburg, Germany. Corridor and Worship Room Design for Arche Slowenien, Medvode Slowenien.

Selected Collections

Municipal Cultural Department, Memmingen, Germany. Karl Gerstner, Basel, Switzerland

Selected Publications

Minimalsystem der Selbstreferenz. Malerei im interkulturellen Dialog, Gallery Akzente 2001, Memmingen, Germany.

Essay – Ent-täuschung – Spiritualität in book Spirituelle Erfahrung in philosophischer Perspektive, p. 161-167,  Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany.

Pedagogy 1991 - 1998 

Principal of Schule für Gestaltung, Ravensburg, Germany Course taught: Philosophy of Fine Art

Thalatelier

Reinhard Blank

Unterthal 33a

87730 Bad Grönenbach-Thal Germany

info@reinhard-blank.de  

Tel. + 49 8334 534840

 + 49 1753 409948

德國藝術家李布朗克（Reinhard Blank）居住於巴伐利亞的阿爾高地區，受過德國包浩斯工業設計訓練，與慕尼黑藝術學院教育等大學時期拜學于徳國哲學大師Wolfgang Stegmüller，承襲德國的哲學研究精神和隱含的深度思維，加上沉浸環繞森林的自然環境中。他的作品呈現出自然不造作的簡單，純潔及抽象性；並精確掌握了立體造型的微妙。Blank作品的幾何形狀經過巧妙設計，並且耗時的以數學嚴謹的計算來約束；這些特徵也表達在他的平面畫中。藝術創作者的情感不會添加到作品中，而是傾向於讓藝術品的材質呈現出自己的特色。他遵循虛無的哲學意識，不是迸發情感如葉方的捲曲牡丹花瓣，在宇宙運行中呈現理性及柔軟包容的精神。如 “天空的鏡子”（Sky Mirror）景觀雕塑品--他在花園中結合了小池塘以水雕，鋼雕結構與自然景觀和花園完美融合，並與眾多珍稀花卉和植物對話。水流及天空和環境的反射相應變化，捕捉並折射了自然環境中的迷人變化情緒和季節的流逝，其靜止是動態的，思想中的空白帶著謙卑的拈花微笑。找到優雅精心計算的金屬和流水，各自代表堅固性和虛空的特質交錯和互補，展示出的存在中的真實性。