Bruno Kurz • Uwe Langmann • Klaus Schröder • Group ‘Cater’
Bruno Kurz creates colour spaces that are characterised by a lively surface and strong luminosity. They emerge from a labour-intensive process using metal as a picture support and glazes with acrylic, pigment and resin. His theme is light and its emotional impact, with landscape hints palpably present. Kurz’s works appear with surprisingly new colours depending on the time of day and the angle of view; they appear not only before our eyes, but also within us. Since 1987 Bruno Kurz has been present in Canada, Germany and Switzerland with numerous exhibitions and fairs, including Art Toronto, Art Karlsruhe. His works are represented in many private and public collections.
Uwe Langmann’s photographs look more like watercolours because of the special light moods. With a deep inner calm that is transferred to the viewer, he sometimes waits a whole day until light and motif come together. His fascination with wide, white surfaces gives many of his paintings a peculiar abstraction. The compositions with people alone in silent nature have a strong metaphorical quality, like key scenes in film, which is also where Uwe Langmann originally comes from.Since 2010, he has received various international awards in photography competitions and is active with exhibitions at home and abroad.
Klaus Schröder’s wooden objects are dedicated to sculpture as a pure form of expression, without any borrowings from reality. In the alternation between reduction and variety, he creates a balanced relationship of calm and playful movement. The forms, relatively simple in structure and colour, are enlivened by a structure of proportions and the resulting rhythms – variations of enclosing, lining up and nesting. Schröder has been exhibiting in Germany since the 1990s, has been present at important German art fairs and has taught at the Alanus Hochschule for many years. Many of his works are in private and public collections.
The four woodcarvers Moroder, Mussner, Pancheri and Runggaldier come from a Dolomite valley in northern Italy. They are part of the lively and multifaceted scene of woodcarving there, which is rooted in a centuries-old tradition. Their expressive, reduced figures reflect different moods, which can be read in their body language and in which the viewer finds himself perceptibly. Since 1995 they have been active in Austria, Italy, Germany with exhibitions and fairs and are represented in numerous private collections and public spaces.
