Exhibition at the gallery La Vitrine, Fribourg (Switzerland) :
5/5 5 artistes, 5 ans de la galerie
Dubreuil –Glattfelder – Pasquer – Rompza -Sapin
www.GALERIELAVITRINE.CH
Conference at the departement of philosophy of the University Darmstadt ‚
‘Dialektik –Ontologie – Kunst’
Lecture by HJG: „Konstruktion, Spekulation, Metapher –
Conversations with Hans Heinz Holz“
Probabely there will be a publication of the transcript-verlag about the event
Celebration of the 90th birthday of the philosopher von Hans Heinz Holz
„die raue See des Widerspruchs“ in the rooms of ‚Urania’, Berlin
lecture by HJG „On the reality content of constructive art“
Fiera Arte die Bologna
one man show Glattfelder
at the stand of the gallery rossovermiglio, Padova
www.rossovermiglioarte.com
Exhibition at the märz –galerie Mannheim and cube 4 x 4.
In the „cube“ Glattfelder’s installation „triangel with sides of equal length“
The
26/11 at 18 p. m. artists talk with Sigurd Rompza, moderated by Kim Behn
www.maerz-galerie-mannheim.de
Würzburg, HJG and Serge Lemoine
Hans Jörg Glattfelder is awarded in Würzburg, Germany, with the
„Peter C. Ruppert – Award for Concrete Art in Europe“.
A crowd of friends and art-interested people listened to the speaks of
Dr. Marlene Lauter, director of the Museum im Kulturspeicher
Muchtar Al Ghusain, Speaker of the Cyties Department of Culture
Peter C. Ruppert, Art Collector and founder of the price
Prof. Serge Lemoine, Professor at Sorbonne and former director
of Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Mr. Christian Schuchardt, Lord Mayor of the City of Würzburg
Mr. Ruppert quoted in his speech the following message of the secretary general of the C ouncil of Europe, Mr. Thorbjörn Jagland:
“It is, once again, an honour to congratulate
the winner of the Peter C Ruppert Foundation Prize for Concrete Art, the
notable artist from Switzerland, Hans Jörg Glattfelder.
I am a firm believer that art and culture can deepen our democratic instincts
by opening us up to diversity and other ways of viewing and experiencing
the world.
With its emphasis on abstraction and complete detachment from the real
life of representational art, Concrete Art provides a perfect 21st Century
form of art, by using shape, colour, chiaroscuro, geometry and mathematics
ingeniously, and can be universally enjoyed.
For over 50 years, Hans Jörg Glattfelder has explored the possibilities
of this art form, even creating a glossary of terms to help all participating
artists share a recognised ‘language’. He works like a poet
in sonnet form, limitlessly reinterpreting the simple square.
As the late Piotr Piotrowski put it, they “push the horizon of our
expectations”.
I am delighted to congratulate Hans Jörg Glattfelder for his significant
contribution to Concrete Art and congratulate the Peter C. Ruppert Foundation
for this horizon-pushing Prize.”
At the end of the official part the city administration
offered a party in the foyer of the Kulturspeicher for more than hundred
guests who appreciated the excellent wine and fingerfood. It was a great
pleasure to meet the charming Swiss “Generalkonsulin” Mrs.
Chawll-Gantenbein who came from Munich, and to shake hands once again
with Heijo Hangen, who was brought from Koblenz by Hans Peter Riese. The
party ended late in the evening.
www.kulturspeicher.de
One-man show at the galleria rossovermiglio, Padova
The exhibition is documentated in a catalogue of 100 pages edited by Vittoria Coen.
In the recent years the gallery has bought a significant stock of works of the artist; the intention of the gallerists is to show to the Italian public the evolution of Glattfelders work after the period of the pyramid reliefs.
www.rossovermiglioarte.com
Glattfelder participates in the exhibition in the gallery Geiger in Konstanz, Germany
„young collectors choice“,
www.galerie-geiger.de
Exhibition
in the gallery Martin Wörn, Sulzburg,
“für sehen gemacht”
with works of John Carter, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Hans Jörg Glattfelder,
Jan Meyer-Rogge, Marie-Thérèse Vacossin
In this occasion a silkscreen print by Glattfelder is published by the
gallery.
www.galerie-konkret.de
16/06 – 19/06/2016
ART Basel
Works of HJG are featured in the stands of Lahumière, Paris und
FANAL, Basel
www.fanal.ch und www.lahumiere.com
two men exhibition :
Hans J. Glattfelder, painting – Martin Willing, sculptures
Galerie Lahumière, Paris
www.lahumiere.com
‚Drawing Now’, art mess of contemporary drawing
Carreau du Temple, Paris
Stand Gal. Anna Wenger, focus on H. Glattfelder
www.galeriewenger.ch
Lecture hold by H.J.G. at Editions Fanal, Basel:
„Konkrete Kunst – Umgang mit dem Dogma“,
(concrete art – how to live with a dogma)
eine Hommage an Georg Schmidt
zu seinem 120. Geburtstag
www.fanal.ch
verknüpft, Haleh Rdjaian und die Sammlung,
Museum für konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
www.mkk-Ingolstadt.de
Jan Kubicek – Hans J. Glattfelder
two men show at Galerie Zaloudek, Prag
at the opening assisted Hans Peter Riese and the writer
Pavel Kohout
www.galerie-zaloudek.cz
lecture hold by H.J.G. „Art Concret – histoire et perspectives“,
at the institut EIKON, Fribourg, CH
www.eikon.ch
Hans J. Glattfelder „Through space and time,
Highlights of the last 50 years ”,
Galerie Geiger, Konstanz
the gallery publishes a catalogue of 70 pages
www.galerie-geiger.de
perpetuum mobile –
le mouvement, une experience visuelle
Galerie la Vitrine, Fribourg
www.galerielavitrine.ch
Lecture „Art Concret aujourd’hui“,
at the art school HEAR in Mulhouse, France
www.hear.fr
„Schwarz auf Weiss“, (black on white)
Works from the museums collection MKK
www.mkk-ingolstadt.de
personal exhibition H.J.G. in the cabinet of
Galerie Wenger, Zürich
www.galeriewenger.ch
„Rendezvous der Länder“, New display of the
Peter C. Ruppert Collection , Museum im Kulturspeicher,
Würzburg
www.kulturspeicher.de
10 Years Museum Ritter
„ein Quadrat ist ein Quadrat, ist ein Quadrat“,
(a square is a square is a square)
H.J.G. participating
www.museumritter.de
Oe man show „Seh-Übung“
Museum for Perception - MUWA Graz,
Introduction by Anna Wondrak, Ingolstadt
www.muwa.at
Hans J. Glattfelder « Konkretheiten » One man show at the Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren
atists talk with art critic Hans Peter Riese in february
www.leopoldhoeschmuseum.de
19/09/2014
opening speech of Glattfelder at the exhibition of the Swiss painter
Beat Maeschi in the museum Kunsthaus Rehau, Germany,
which is directed by Eugen Gomringer
18/09/2014
Artist talk with Hans Glattfelder in occasion of the exhibition
“eckig rund und bunt”, Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
20/07 –
19/10/2014
Exhibition „eckig rund und bunt“
Museum for Concrete Art (MKK), Ingolstadt
Participation of H.J.G. with a PYR of the collection MKK.
12/07/2014
Opening of the exhibition “glattfelder sehen“
In the museum Chasa Jaura, Valchava nella Val Mustair ,
high up in the Swiss Alps.
Opening speech by Mr. Otto Bänninger
23/05 -28/09/2014
Museum of Fine Arts -Vasarély Museum Budapest
“Hans Jörg Glattfelder – That is the case too”
On man show in this beautiful museum near the Danube
The show opens with an interactive video installation
“Pallarel” which the Swiss artist Daniel Bisig
has conceived as a structural reverence to the works of Glattfelder.
The Swiss Ambassador in Hungary,Mr. Jean-François Paroz
opened the vernissage with a very competent speech.
After this, as part of the opening, H. J. Glattfelder presented his Glossary,
Words and Notions to Art which has been translated
into Hungarian by th artist Dora Maurer . This translation is now published
by OSAS (Open Structure Art Society) of Budapest.
„Hans Jörg Glattfelder“
One man show organized by the gallery „la vitrine“, in Fribourg,
Switzerland
The newspaper « La Liberté » published the same day a portrait of
HJG « L’ésthétique de la géométrie ».
www.st-hilaire.ch
28/06/2014
„Hans Jörg Glattfelder“
One man show organized by the gallery „la vitrine“,
in Fribourg, Switzerland
The newspaper « La Liberté » published
the same day a portrait of HJG « L’ésthétique
de la géométrie ».
www.st-hilaire.ch
29/03/ -14/04/2014
„Hans Jörg Glattfelder – Sein und Raum“,
Personal exhibition in the gallery Geiger, Konstanz, Germany
26-30/03/2014
„DRAWING NOW“, Paris
HJG participates in this new fair in the stand of gallery
Wenger
13/ - 19/03/2014
At the art fair ART Karlsruhe, is presented by the galleries
Geiger, Lahumière, Lindner and März-Galerie Mannheim
27/02/2014
Opening exhibition of the new gallery Petr Zaloudek, Prag
„8 evropskych konkretistu“
02/02/2014
What the papers say about the exhibition at mhk Zurich
www.hauskonstruktiv.ch
15/01/2014
Conference held by HJG as part of his personal exhibition
In the Museum haus konstruktiv in Zurich. The organizers expected about
fifty visitors, but when the number passed over 200 a bigger hall
had to bee occupied.
24/11/2013
-02/02/2014
«hauptsächlich grau 4, konstruiertes grau»,
thematic exhibition by Wita Noack , dedicated to the color gray
in the museum Mies Van Der Rohe - Haus, Berlin
23/11/2013
- 08/01/2014
« Zeitlos Gut» ( « timeless beauty“))
group exhibition organized in the gallery Geiger, Konstanz
with works of Glattfelder, Hangen, Mack, Megert,
Morandini, Spoerri and De Vries.
22/11/2013
– 30/01/2014
„Beauté rationelle“
Art space « Topographie de l’Art »,
15, rue de Thorigny, Paris
During this exhibition, HJG will keep a conference on « Rationality
and Metarationalism in Art » on 30. 01. 2014
17/10 - 21/12/
2013
«50 Ans Galerie Lahumière» Paris
This anniversary exhibition gives occasion to publish a big and
well illustrated catalogue with a letter of Gottfried Honegger.
www.lahumiere.com
Ausstellungs Dokumentation click to see the diashow
Vernissage in haus konstruktiv click to see the diashow
to see the documentary video by Melanie Moser click here
You can order the book « Glattfelder – Was der Fall ist », edited by Wienand, Köln, 271 pages, hardcover, at the shop del Museum haus konstruktiv, Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 Zürich for 55.- CHF;
www.hauskonstruktiv.ch
and also online on www.amazon.de for Euro 45.-
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23/10/2013 – 2/02/2014
18 p.m. Vernissage of the exhibition
Hans Jörg Glattfelder- Was der Fall ist
at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv (MHK), Selnaustrasse 25,
Zürich 1.
In the occasion of the exhibition the Museum publishes a monograph
of Glattfelder, 250 pages,
edited by Wienand, Köln with contributions of H.H. Holz,
Eugen Gomringer , Hans Peter Riese, Marco Filoni and Stephan Geiger. The
book reprints also some theoretical writings of Glattfelder,
furthermore the „Glossary“ and an interview with the new director
of the MHK, Sabine Schaschl.
The press release states:
The Museum Haus Konstruktiv is delighted to honor the
multi-layered oeuvre of Swiss artist Hans Jörg Glattfelder in a comprehensive
solo exhibition. The exhibition spans two floors and provides an insight
into over fifty years of work as an artist.
Glattfelder, who was born in 1939 in Zurich and has
lived in Paris since 1998, is one of the most important contemporary representatives
of constructivist and concrete art. Following on from Bill, Lohse, Graeser
and Loewensberg, the so-called Zurich Concretists, Glattfelder is interested
in a clear language of forms and in rational issuesworks, the conception
of which is also influenced by mathematical and scientific findings, are
made captivating by both their intellectuall and their formal-aesthetic
appeal to an equal extent.
PDF
1/09/2013
In the renewed presentation of its collection
the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart exposes three works by Hans Glattfelder
www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de
20/08/2013
the websitewww.hauskonstruktiv.ch(English
version) puts online a press release announcing the coming exhibition
“Glattfelder – that is the case “
15/08/2013
The British artist Jeffrey Steele has terminated
his translation of the „GLOSSARY.“
http://www.kulturspeicher.de/kulturspeicher/english-version-kultur/collections/collection-peter-c-ruppert/404422.GLOSSARY_of_Words_and_Concepts_in_Constructive
20/07/ - 28/08/2013
Participates in the exhibition
„Young Collectors Choice“ at Galerie Geiger,
Konstanz
12/05 – 15/09/2013
Vasarély Museum Budapest: The ‚Open
Structure Art Society’ (OSAS) presents
100 artworks of the Berlin based Collection Siegfried Grauwinkel.
4/03/ - 8/03/2013
at the art fair ART Karlsruhe Glattfelder
is presented by four galleries:
20/02/2013 – 30/03/2013
„Vice – Versa“, five
artists proposed by Peter Lindner, Vienna
expose in the gallery dr.julius /ap in Berlin
8/12/2012 – 20/01/2013
Glattfelder exposes together with his friend,
the Swiss artist Beat Maeschi
at Galerie ARTOPOI in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
20/10/ - 21/11/2012
„new works“ opening of the
one man show at Galerie Geiger
in Konstanz, Southern Germany
12/09/2012 – 25/10/2012
One man show „metaphores of space“
at the gallery Lindner in Vienna
PDF
www.galerie.lindner.at
23/05/2012
Vernissage of the exhibition
Vera Molnar, Judith Néms, H. J. Glattfelder
In the gallery B55 in Budapest. The hungarian artist Dora Maurer hold
an introduction.
Glattfelder is appointed honorary member of OSAS – the hungarian
“open structure art society”.
www.b55galerie.hu
23/04/2012
The Tretjakov Gallery in Moscou shows a group of
Paris based constructivist painters, among which also Glattfelder
22/04 – 27/05/2012
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Roma
”arte programmata e cinetica, anni 60 e 70.”,
where Glattfelder figures with a relief structure of the early Seventies.
www.galleriaartemodernaroma.it
28/03/2012
TheTretjakov Museum in Moscow
inaugurates ”Parisji Koka” . Glattfelder presents three
of his paintings.
23/01/2012
Gallery Wenger invites to a finnissage of the
quite successful exhibition « INVENTARe ».
Among the guests will be Mrs; Sibyl Albers, Gottfried Honegger, Mrs. And
Mr. Sandy Wurmfeld from New York and many other friends.
19/03 – 21/03/2012
Angermuseum, Erfurt. Germany
In the context of the presentation of H. P. Riese’s collection
Takes place a series of “movie evenings” dedicated to
the Swiss artists
Richard Paul Lohse et Hans Jörg Glattfelder
Among others the short film
”Glattfelder unterwegs”
CH 1997, 15 min. R. Eva Hultberg
7 - 11/03/2012
The art fair of Karlsruhe presents as “special
feature” the collection of Marli Hoppe Ritter where also a painting
of Glattfelder is shown.
In the stand of gallery Geiger from Konstanz (southern Germany) a one
man show shows recent works of Glattfelder.
Another group of works is exhibited by Blanka Heineke, März Galerie,
Mannheim.
28/1/2012 – 31/3/2012
In Zurich a new art gallery – Galerie Wenger
– opens its activities with a one man show of Glattfelder.
www.galeriewenger.com
11/12/2011
My great friend and mentor, the philosopher
Hans Heinz Holz died today in San Abbondio, in southern Switzerland.
Oct 2011
The web – site of the Museum ”Kulturpeicher”
od Wuerzburg contains now the ”Glossar” redacted
by Glattfelder, in the context of the P.C. Ruppert Collection
GLOSSAR
14/14/09/2011 -08/01/2012
”RECTANGLE AND SQUARE,
von Picasso bis Judd”
aquisitions of the der Rupf-Foundation
Kunstmuseum Bern
www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
16/07/2011
talk-show with Hans Jörg Glattfelder
about his works presented in the museum, 16 July 15 p.m.
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
www.museum-ritter.de
1/07/2011
The philosophical review TOPOS, edited in Germany
by H.H. Holz and Domenico Losurdo publishes an article by Gtlattfelder
on ”the historical/philosophical influences on the development
of the Concrete Art”, particularly on the influence of Hegelianism
in the thinking of Van Doesburg and certain methodological parallels between
phenomenology and concrete art.
www.toposzeitschrift.de
25/06/ - 10/08/2011
”Evidenzen”
one man show with works of the last twenty years
of Hans Jörg Glattfelder
Galerie Geiger, Konstanz
www.galerie-geiger.de
21/06/ - 10/08/2011
”Drei Freunde aus Paris”
(thre friends from Paris)
J.F. Dubreul, H.J.Glattfelder, Henri Prosi
Galerie Leonhard, Graz
www.galerie-leonhard.at
22/05 – 18/09/2011
”im Fokus der 1950er bis 1970er Jahre”,
in parallel with the big exhibition of Antonio Calderara the museum
presents works created in fifties and sixties of the collection
Marli Hoppe –Ritter
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
www.museum-ritter.de
1/05/2011
The Italian cultural review Belfagor publishes
an article by Glattfelder “Ragghianti and Mondrian »where
he demands a re-evaluation of the controversial monograph published by
the great art historian in the sixties.
www.belfagor.olschki.it
08/04 – 09/10/2011
« quadratisch… »
selected works of the collection
Marli Hoppe-Ritter showed in the rooms of the
Museum im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Allemagne
www.museum-galerie-fabrik.de
05/03 – 02/04/2011
”face à face”, sculptures et
reliefs
exhibition at the
Galerie Lahumière, Paris
1/03/2011
Museum ‘Kulturspeicher’ in Würzburg.
New display of the Ruppert Collection.
www.kulturspeicher.de
10/01/1011
Lecture by Hans J. Glattfelder
“What learns concrete art from Husserls ‘Origin
of Geometry’?”
Introduction by Dr. Dorothea Strauss ‚haus konstruktiv’,
Zürich,
Link : text of the invitation.
www.hauskonstruktiv.ch
The lecture was attended by over 100 participants., Many friends, collegues
and representents of the foundation was specially noted the presence of
the German mathematicion Dr. Ulrich Grevesmühl, the poet and
writer Prof. Felix Ingold and the swiss art collector Werner Merzbacher.
4/10/ - 25/11/2010
Participates in the exhibition „konkrete
Konzepte“
At the gallery Ruhnke, Potsdam (Germany)
This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Galerie
St. Johann, Saabrücken,
where it will be shown later.
www.galerie-ruhnke.de
02/10 - 10/12/2010
Exhibition of sketches and drawings „Architektur
im Spiegel der Farbe“
together with Berlin based artist Elisabeth Sonneck at
the gallery ARTOPOI
Freiburg i/Br. (Germany)
www.artopoi.de
till 25/09/2010
participation in the group show
‘Summer Special’ at the Galerie Schlegl, Zürich
www.galerieschlegl.ch
26/08/ - 31/10/2010
Glattfelder participates in the exhibition« ganz
konkret, Folge 1 », A proposal of synthesis of
100 years development of concrete art, assembled by Dorothea
Strauss in the museum ‚haus konstruktiv, Selnaustrasse 25,
Zürich 1
www.hauskonstruktiv.ch
3/8/2010
Weisbachsches Haus, Bleichstrasse
3,Plauen at 18.00 p. m.Conference by Hans Glattfelder „Handhabe
des Sichtbaren“
31/7/2010
17 p.m. opening of
the exhibition organized by Eugen Gomringer
“100 YEARS OF CONCRETE ART,STRUCTURE AND PERCEPTION . 2010”.
At the Kunsthalle, Rehau, in Germany. Inaugural speech by Mr. Beat Wismer,
director of the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf.The documentary part
of the catalogue published in this occasion contains also the ‘glossary’
proposed by Glattfelder.
31/7/
2010
Mr. Hans –Peter Riese holds the welcome
speech at 11a.m. for the personal exhibition of Glattfelder
at the ‘Weisbachsche Haus’, Plauen/Vogtland in Germany. Mr.
Riese is the author of several publications about constructive/concrete
art and about Russian art. This exhibition is part of the ‘Sommeracademie’.
29/7
– 8.8.2010
XVII Internationale Sommerakademie Plauen/Vogtland,
an interdisciplinary seminary around the theme ‚ars inveniendi
strategies of invention’ directed by Hans Glattfelder.
Click here
for PDF
5/5/2007
The Italian litterary monthly review
Belfagor, directed by C. F. Russo, publishes Glattfelders
essay „l’origine della geometria e l’arte concreta’
. It ist he relaborated version in Italian of a German text
published in 2003 with the titel „ Konkrete Kunst
aus der Sicht von Husserls ‚Ursprung der Geometrie’.
Belfagor LXV, nr. 3, Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, Firenze
2/03/2010
La „Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“
, one of the most important German newspapers,publishes
a survey of Glattfelders exhibition at the Gallery Hoffmann in Friedberg
20/02/2010
the inscriptions to
participate at the « Sommerakademie »
in Plauen (Germany) are now possible,The seminary takes place in
July and is directed byHans J. Glattfelder
Click here
for PDF
18/02
– 18/O3/2010
Exhibition
„ J.F. Dubreuil, H. Glattfelder, T. Ridell“ at
Galleri Carin Hjärne in Helsingborg , Sweden
One man exhibition at the gallery Hoffmann,
Görbelheimer Mühle, Friedberg near Frankfurt, Germany
Hans Jörg Glattfelder. NeueWandarbeiten,
Bilder und Zeichnungen.
The invitation contains a part of the”glossary”, translated in English by Jeffrey Steele.
www.galeriehoffmann.de
« Reconnaître »,
Opening of the exhibition with 45 European constructivist artists
in Paksi Képtàr, Hungary
www.paksikeptar.hu
Inauguration of the exhibition “H.J. Glattfelder – Vladimir Skoda”
at the gallery Artopoi, Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
www.artopoi.de
« Art Construit » J.F. Dubreuil, H. J. Glattfelder und T. Ridell
Opening of the exhibition in the town hall of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris in presence of the Maire Pierre Aidenbaum
www.mairie3.paris.fr
« Konkret. Die Sammlung Heinz und Anette Teufel im
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart” Exhibition of the collection Teufel,
gift to the new museum of Stuttgart.
Catalogue 310 pages, (with 3 reproductions
of works by Glattfelder.).
www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de
Opening of Glattfelders one man exhibition in the
Galerie Leonhard , Graz (Austria)
www.galerie-leonhard.at
Exhibition of Glattfelder „extensions“ at the
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
In the occasion of his 70th birthday Glattfelder takes a look backwards towards the beginnings of his career; he there takes up some structural idea and re-elaborates and transforms it due to forty years experience, creating in this way unforeseen “extensions”.
www.galerielindenplatz.li
“L’Oblique’ is the title of an interesting exhibition organized in the museums of Montbéliard, in France. The show focuses on the concept of oblique in contemporary geometric art. It is quite astonishing that Glattfelder is represented not with an ‘non Euclidian metaphor’ (where ‘oblique’ is a central point), but a pyramid relief taken from the collection MKK (Ingolstadt). Netherthless the theme is very original and stimulating and the exhibition is worth to be visited. It is the last exhibition of the director Bernhard Fauchille before his retirement.
“Schweiz Konkret”, Exhibition of Swiss concrete art in Veszprém (Hungary), organized with works of the Vass Collection. An interesting catalogue (in German) has been published by Katrin Heidt for this occasion. This exhibition will remain opened for the next two years.
www.vasscollection.hu
At Erfurt (Germany) the ‘Forum Konkrete Kunst organizes a symposium dedicated to the European influence of the Bauhaus before an after World War II. Glattfelders contribution titles: ‘L’Esprit Nouveau: the long march of France towards modernism”.
This text will be published soon (in German).
The Italien monthly review ABITARE ,( focussing on design and architecture), publishes online an important interview of Marco Filoni with Hans J. Glattfelder. For the time being the interview is only in Italien language:
www.abitare.it/featured/hans-jorg-glattfelder/langswitch_lang/it/
Double exhibition of the young german artist Axel Rohlfs and
H. Glattfelder, in the spaces of Edition FANAL, Basel (Switzerland)
At the vernissage the two artists will speak about:
“Dialectics of the Concrete”
The exhibition remains open till the end of June.
‘haus konstruktiv’ (the museum of constructive art, Zurich) announces the following event:
18.30 “about Max Bill and concrete art”
a conversation between Jakob Bill and Hans Glattfelder
introduction by Dr. Dorothea Strauss
The two artists are friends since the sixties, when they started to exhibit together. Both, in different manners, knew Max Bill quite well.
They will discuss about the actuality of concrete art in general and in the work of Max Bill in particular.
The event will be recorded by the local radio station LORA.
www.hauskonstruktiv.ch
During the new, dynamic art fair ART Karlsuhe two german galleries show Glattfelder in one man presentations:
The Maerz Galerie Mannheim and gallery ARTOPOI,
Freiburg i/Br. which presents a retrospective selection.
« konkrete Zeichnung » exhibition of concrete drawings at the gallery ARTOPOI, Freiburg im Breisgau (southern Germany). Participating artists : Hans J. Glattfelder, Axel Malik,
Robert Schad and Yamauchi Tatsuo.
www.artopoi.de
In the front room of projektraum4 in Mannheim (Germany), invited by Blanka Heinecke (Maerz Galerie Mannheim), Glattfelder shows his installation “Triangle with 3 sides of equal length”. The piece is a reflection about the origin and about the material constitution of imaginary or ideal objects like e.g. geometric forms. In this installation the “three equal lengths are: a laser beam, a tight blue cord and an irregular ball made of thick black wire.
Glattfelder has invited artist Red Left Talg (born in
S. Paul, Newfoundland in 1939) to show in the same room the ”Duchamp extensions” from the series of his ‘meta readymades’. By this term R. L. Talg understands a metalinguistic comment on existing readymades … made by readymades.
Example: Duchamps famous urinoir “fountain” becomes “fontaine malade”, the “wheel” becomes “Marcel’s childhood” and finally the target “eau et gaz à tous les étages” is transfigurated in a “plaquette négativiste”.
It is quite difficult to find any information about Red Left Talg. Somebody remembers that in the early 80-ties ther was a quite irritated discussion about his -artistic – project to cool the tropical regions by colorating systematically the clouds. In the linguistics Red L. Talg is considered by some scholars the inventor of what is called the “semiotic square”.
Projektraum4 - Augartenstrasse 68 - D-68165 Mannheim
www.projektraum4.de
www.maerz-galerie-mannheim.de
The art gallery « L’incontro » in Chiari (Brescia), northern Italy organizes an exhibition ”Glattfelder – I rilievi a piramidi”.
A very carefully printed catalogue is available. All the works exposed are visible on the homepage of the gallery, and equally the text written by the Italian philosopher Marco Filoni for this exhibition. Text and images may be consulted under the artists name Glattfelder in the home page:
www.galleria-incontro.it
“Bildertausch 3”
a new presentation of the Marli Hoppe-Ritter collection,
with a. o. a group of works by Glattfelder.
In this third presentation, the art collector and founder of the Museum, Mrs. Marli Hoppe-Ritter puts in evidence some new aspects of her collection. The special attention of the actual selection goes to the work of artists investigating unusual constructive methods, like a. o. Vera Molnar or Manfred Mohr.
Espace
de l’Art Concret
Château de Mouans Sartoux (Alpes maritimes, France)
19 p.m.
Conference by Hans J. Glattfelder
”penser l’art concrete” (“thinking concrete art”)
During this lecture the author will explain his concept
of concrete art as essential core of all forms of non referential art.
He describes concrete art as similar to a living organism, interacting
with as different areas as science or the changing social context. Glattfelder
will present his draft of a ‘glossaire’, i.e. a lexicon of
words and concepts mostly used while discussing about concrete art.
Personal exhibition Hans J. Glattfelder
Painting and works on paper
Galerie artopoi
Guntramstrasse 43
79106 Freiburg i/Br.
Opening time :
Mo/Tu/ We 15 – 19 h, Thur – 20 h, Sa 12 – 15 h
www.artopoi.de
ART-PARIS in the Grand Palais, represented by Galerie Lahumière, Paris
and Galerie- Edition Fanal, Basel
18/3 2008
New publication by édition L’Harmattan, Paris,
« L’analogie dans la démarche scientifique »
directed by Marie-José DURAND-RICHARD
cover illustration by Hans J. Glattfelder
Thematic exhibitoin: “Exemplification becomes Art”,
at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
www.wilhelm-hack-museum.de
Groupe show: “8 x KONKRET, Concrete Art in Europe today” ,
Beardsmore Gallery, London.
www.beardsmoregallery.com
With the Gallery Carmen Weber , Zug, participation at the art fair in Karlsruhe, Germany
The publication to celebrate the 80th birthday of Hans Heinz Holz, ”Unterschied und Widerspruch” edited by Christoph Hubig/Jörg Zimmer
Ed. Jürgen Dinter, Köln 2007, 257 p., hardcover, contains a.o. the texts ‘against the complete privatization of art’ by Hans Joachim Albrecht and an essay ‘on the constructibility of images’ by Hans J. Glattfelder.
In the occasion of the 80th birthday of the philosopher Hans Heinz Holz the German Leibniz Society and the Hegel- Marx Gesellschaft organizes a symposium “The pleasures of contradiction” in the great conference hall of the Humboldt-University in Berlin. For this event a “Festschrift” is published containing more than twenty articles written by friends and scholars from all over the globe. Myself I have contributed with pleasure a text treating the “constructability of images”.
The museum Kulturspeicher in the German town Würzburg where is kept the Peter C. Ruppert collection (concrete art in Europe after 1945) shows an interesting exhibition with the title “ausgerechnet...Mathematik und konkrete Kunst”( exactly calculated....mathematics and concrete art). Together with works of world famous artists as Delaunay, Klee, Mondrian or Vantongerloo also younger artists are integrated in the exemplifications. Glattfelder is presented with the “non-Euclidian metaphor” of the Ruppert collection. His painting “Grenzgänger” has been object of structural analysis by the students of the Institut for Mathematics who have made a panel with explanations about non-Euclidian geometry shon in the exhibition. A catalogue of the exhibition in German is available
www.kulturspeicher.de
The gallery Nicole Schlégl celebrates its 35. birthday.
The artists of the gallery are present; Glattfelder will
transform his wall piece for the occasion.
Opening of the exhibition:
Rooms -Dialog between two Visions”
A two-men show organised at the Galerie Nicole Schlégl
Minervastr.119
Zürich
www.galerieschlegl.ch
info@galerieschlegl.ch
Since the early sixties the work of the two artists focussed on the theme of Space: how to understand it, how to depict and question it. Each one tried in his own way to carry the mysterious apriori into the focus of consciousness, to open a dialogue with it ..and to sing its praises.
In the Zurich exhibition works of different periods of both artists are shown together in an unusual confrontation. The two artists and the gallerist look forward to discover new aspects and new insights.
The exhibition is open till the 4th November 2006
At the MKK (museum for constructive art) in the German town of
Ingolstadt Opens the exhibition “die neuen tendenzen”
(new tendencies). This exhibition tries to reconstruct the paneuropean
artistic movements which in the sixties – under the name of “nouvelle tendence” or “nove tendencije”were present from Paris till Zagreb.
Glattfelder is present in the show and the visit to Ingolstadt will give him the opportunity to to look for the bus which he has painted years ago for the town administration . The artist is quite proud of this ‘mobile permutation in the city’; although the drawback of it is that people in Ingolstadt occasionally say that “the other day ‘Glattfelder’ was terribly full”;
20/5–2006
Publication of a text:
« art as an objective activity », in TOPOS 25
The review TOPOS, ‘international contributions to the theory of dialectics’, is edited by the two philosophers Hans Heinz Holz and Domenico Losurdo. Number 25 is a special issue dedicated to questions of aesthetics.
Glattfelder starts his investigations departing from the basic fact that every kind of human existence relays on the intentional production of objects. This constitutes the link of artistic production to the general social metabolism.
Some subtitles in the text:
”historicity of artistic inventions”, “imagination and representation”, “intentional forms – appropriate materialisation – ‘image-competent’ reception”, and finally a slightly satirical chapter about “the creation of a pecuniary aura”.
All the texts are in German.
ISSN 0943 6 1810
‘Topos 25’ is available at the following address:
Dr. Dieter Kraft
Seestr. 35
13353 Berlin
e- mail: Redaktion-Topos@gmx.de
since March 15th you can find in the website
www.sikart.ch
edited by the Swiss Institute for the History of Art,
under >Glattfelder< extensive bio-bibliographical
information.
March 10th – Mai 1st : Group exhibition
"stets konkret",
Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg
Mühlegasse 3
D-40213 Düsseldorf
Germany
(In collaboration with Hubertus Schoeller)
An introduction was held by
Hans-Peter Riese
www.galerie-lausberg.de
Participation in the exhibition "Visionäre Sammlung 1"
haus konstruktiv
Selnaustrasse 25
CH-8001 Zurich
Switzerland
www.hauskonstruktiv.ch
This year again at the beginning of november in the beautiful city of Erfurt takes place a symposium about “concrete art”. I participate there with a lecture about: “Universalien-Realismus und Konstruktivität: über die Seins-Formen von Hans Heinz Holz“.
15/11-2005
My translation of an interesting text, written by Alexandre Kojève
in 1936: ”the concrete paintings of Kandinsky”, will be
published this year by the editor Gachnang & Springer, Bern –
Berlin, together with a commentary which I have written for this presentation.
Kojève is known -among the specialists –as an important
interpreter of Hegel. But he also happened to be Kandinskys nephew:
this text is the first essay on the notion of “concrete”
in painting and its edition could represent an occasion to reconsider
some aspects of this art.
During the ART COLOGNE 28.oct. – 1.nov. 2005-10-31
the gallery HOFFMANN ( www.galeriehoffmann.de )
show at stand C 018,hall 9.1 several works of Glattfelder.
In this shot is shown "sidereus nuncius", 2005, 150x260cm
In presence of the minister of culture, Mrs. Christina Weiss, the founder Mrs. Marli Hoppe-Ritter and the architect Mr. Max Dudler, hundreds of persons assisted the 16th September the inauguration of the Ritter-Museum
( www.museum-ritter.de ) in Waldenbuch near Stuttgart t.
Under the title "SQUARE" a part of the Marli Hoppe-Ritter collection is presented in the rooms of the new museum. The exhibition is well documented by an extensive catalogue. In this exhibition the work of Hans J. Glattfelder is presented by his painting "permutation" dating from 1984
20/10-2005
The 20th. October 2005 in the library of the German Centre fort he History
of Art - 10, Place des Victoires, Paris, Hans J. Glattfelder lectured
on the theme:
"Concret art in Paris between 1930 – 40: a firecracker with
a wet wick".
The audience was composed of students, artists and galerists, but also
of representatives of the Parisian cultural elite as Mr. Serge Lemoine
(director of the Musée d'Orsay) or Mr. Werner Spies (commissioner
of important exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou and elsewhere).
The event was closed by an interesting discussion between
Prof. Gaethgens (director of the Centre), Serge Lemoine , Gottfried Honegger
(Founder of the Centre for Concret Art in Mouans-Sartoux) and Glattfelder.
The general opinion was that events like this are useful to promote the
knowledge of concrete art and consequently a second lecture about the
further development of this art is in the pipeline.
30/5 -2005
My one man exhibition “exact experiments in the perception of
things and signs” at the Hoffmann Gallery in Friedberg near Frankfurt
takes an end, after more than six (!) months. Besides the “ exact
experiments” the gallery showed also examples of my work of the
last 40 years. The exhibition was quite well visited and some important
pieces went into the Marli Hoppe-Ritter and the Peter C. Ruppert collections.
“experiment konkret” was the title of an exhibition which the Museum for concrete art in Ingolstadt organized in occasion of the 80. birthday of Eugen Gomringer, (also known as “ the father of concrete poetry”). The new director of the Museum, Tobias Hoffmann, gave Mr. Gomringer “carte blanche” to organize an exhibition for his own pleasure in the empty museum. I was quite surprised to discover there quite a number of my works and to be pointed out – together with K.H. Adler, Karl Gerstner and François Morellet - as “particularly interested in experiments” (within the realm of “concrete art”). Thanks, Eugen Gomringer!