SCHWEIGER detlef & STAUDINGER oskar - Double show - aavuren & drawing
ONE WEEK SHOW Nr. 3
Vernissage on FRI 30 May 2025 / 8:00 pm
Artists will be present!
Introduction: Dr Tina Simon / publicist / Leipzig
Music: Florian Maier / violin / Dresden
Last Day on MO 09 June / from 1:00 pm
Special opening hours during the ONE WEEK SHOW - daily from 1:00-7:00 pm
FLOX Gallery - Obergraben 10 - 01097 Dresden / in the Neustadt Baroque Quarter
SCHWEIGER detlef - Lavuren - The wet-on-wet process, the flowing distribution of colours, is known as wash painting. The artist uses a self-produced ink for washing. The precise individual brushwork certainly also plays a major role. The technique of Schweiger's wash involves creating the form from the centre, from the location of the brush on its own primer with a very special water as a flowing agent. Detlef Schweiger's lavures are scores of an idiosyncratic notation, a system of signs of an ambient meta-language that creates spherical, gentle, elongated, flowing, abbreviated, concentrated, warm pictorial compositions. The artist and the willing recipients could go beyond the framework of purely pictorial representation by means of muzakalic sound production, which continues to work as an aggregate in the sense of a whole, from individual notated parts that are not really connected pictorially, as sound. The power of synaesthesia, the ‘hearing’ of colours and the ‘tasting’ of sounds can thus be represented more significantly. However, their interpretation is more subject to a physiological - optical interpretation. A final quote from Pablo Picasso may be allowed: ‘There are painters who turn the sun into a yellow spot. But there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun’ - how true - simply opera.
© Excerpts from texts by Holger Wendland, catalogue ‘crossover’, Berlin, 2024
STAUDINGER oskar - drawing - The work of Richard Wagner has accompanied Oskar Staudinger since his earliest childhood - a lifelong fascination that is deeply rooted in his artistic identity. He began to explore the evocative power of Wagner's music at an early age. The composer's onomatopoeic soundscapes opened up imaginary spaces for him to escape to in his dreams - distant, mythically charged places beyond the everyday. It was therefore no coincidence that his first solo exhibition in 2017 was entitled ‘In fernem Land’, a direct allusion to the aria of the same name from Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin. In his current series of works, Staudinger focuses his graphic gaze on the monumental musical-dramatic Gesamtkunstwerk Der Ring des Nibelungen. The result is intimate works on paper that explicitly break away from stage sets and traditional iconographic representations. In a small format and with fine lines, these drawings form a deliberate counter-world to the exuberant force of the tetralogy. They are visual miniatures - poetic condensations - that open up new pictorial spaces, as it were. They invite contemplative contemplation and reveal a multi-layered interplay between musical inspiration, individual imagination and artistic reflection Staudinger's works thus not only continue a personal dialogue with Wagner, but also offer new impulses for a contemporary approach to the myth.
© ANNELIESE Ackermann, Radebeul, 2025
Galerie FLOX 2.0
We would like to inform you that there has been a change of ownership at Galerie FLOX Dresden. With effect from September 30, 2024, Galerie FLOX / sole proprietor Karl Dominick has withdrawn from the gallery business in Dresden and will in future operate exclusively at the Art Factory FLOX Kirschau location.
I will take over the location Galerie FLOX Dresden under my own management (company name Kunstservice Hellfried Christoph) from October 01, 2024, but will continue to operate under the previous label Galerie FLOX!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Dominick family for the many years of idealistic and not inconsiderable financial commitment to art and the artists and, above all, for the trust they have placed in me over the past decade to develop the gallery into what it is today. Thank you also for the fair conditions of the takeover and the associated uncomplicated transition.
Now I have resolved not only to carry on as before, but also to develop the gallery slowly and with moderation. In my actions, I want to be guided by the principle of keeping what is tried and tested and pragmatically letting go of things that are inhibiting/unsuccessful in order to gain space for something new. With my decision, I will in future concentrate my activities exclusively on the FLOX Dresden gallery business.
Of course there will be changes. In terms of concept and organization, there will be innovations in the special exhibitions (in terms of exhibition rhythm, exhibition duration, opening hours as ONE WEEK SHOWs) and the previous portfolio exhibitions in between will be addressed in the future. The Kabinett will continue to offer the opportunity to experiment and exhibit in a concentrated and small format.
We will continue to actively participate in art fairs. Our participation in the AAF Hamburg 2024 in November has been secured! We would like to extend a warm invitation in advance!
Artistically, we will continue to sharpen our profile, add new positions in order to ultimately create lasting art experiences for you as our audience. FLOX would like to make its contribution to the art city of Dresden and beyond.
The first exhibition of the FLOX gallery under my direction will open on 18.10.24. As planned for a long time, Nando Kallweit and Kathrin Christoph will be exhibiting under the title. “anMUTIG”. Until then, the two current exhibitions “nebelme(h)r)” and “imitator” will be extended until 12.10.24. A separate newsletter on “anMUTIG” will follow shortly.
So it continues with vigor in my heart and visions in my head and I'm really looking forward to it! If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to call me at any time. It's going to be an exciting time!