At Art Cologne 2023 Galerie Klemm's Berlin showed new and recent work by German artist Jonas Roßmeißl in the framework of his presentation in the art fair's New Position sector. In this video, Sebastian Klemm (Founder/Director, Klemm's) provides with an introduction to the artist and the works on display.
Jonas Roßmeißl / Galerie Klemm's at Art Cologne 2023. Cologne (Germany), November 19, 2023.
Jonas Roßmeißl / Galerie Klemm's at Art Cologne 2023. Cologne (Germany), November 19, 2023.
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00:10 >> My name is Sebastian Klemm from Klemm's Gallery,
00:13 and we're here in the presentation
00:15 of Jonas Rosmeisel, a young German sculptor
00:18 who is oftentimes using as well the environment
00:22 to present his works.
00:24 So as you said correctly, the walls and the whole setup
00:29 of the presentation is already quite specific.
00:31 So Jonas chose to present his works in a surrounding
00:35 that is already psychologically loaded a bit.
00:37 You can see we don't have the classical wall covering,
00:41 so he chose to take all the wallpapers off
00:44 so to show the structure and the raw material basically
00:48 of the environment and as well put in like a kind
00:55 of specific carpet which resembles like an office floor
00:58 but in a white tint which would get dirty over the course
01:03 of the fair to, yeah, put something around his work
01:07 where the sculptures that he did
01:09 for the presentation could be taken in a bit more precisely
01:15 and, yeah, in a more concentrated matter
01:17 because Jonas' work is very complex, so he does a lot
01:22 of research about the ongoings and societal situations
01:27 as we found ourselves in at the moment.
01:29 So there's a lot of friction.
01:30 There's a lot of potential to go in a right interesting way
01:34 or into a more drastic developments in society
01:38 but Jonas takes that as a stage to, yeah, present his works
01:44 and in an open setting.
01:47 So there's no clear direction where you should think
01:51 about them and it's a classical sculptural approach in a sense.
01:54 So as you mentioned, there's some kinetic aspects
01:57 which are but more the techniques that he uses.
02:02 So there's this motor driven piece.
02:05 There's a shredder piece in that entity over there
02:08 and the work is called Shredder L and it has a screen with a,
02:15 yeah, a very old piece of technique in there.
02:19 So it's like a dark hole
02:22 which takes all information being images, text,
02:26 like it's something that works quite erratically as most
02:30 of his presentation here I think.
02:32 So it's like the work has an appealing
02:35 and an appalling effect.
02:36 So they are I think quite catchy and interesting to look at
02:40 so and it makes sense to walk around them.
02:43 Even the pieces on the wall have various perspectives on them
02:47 and at the same time you have a psychological, I'd say,
02:51 dimension to them.
02:52 So you always have to make up your mind what you're actually
02:54 looking at and the closer you study them, the more you can see
02:59 that they are fully worked through.
03:01 So it's not an assemblage of interesting material.
03:03 It's more like a real sculptural approach
03:07 so that Jonas chooses his materials quite deliberately
03:12 and works on them very, very precisely.
03:16 And so the feedback for the presentation here is
03:18 so far outstanding.
03:20 So we were able to place works with institutional context
03:24 and a lot of visitors are intrigued and interested
03:29 in what he's doing here.
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03:44 [German]
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