Biografia /Biography

O forte claroscuro, as áreas de cor monocromáticas, as formas geométricas, as linhas e os pontos – sua agregação simbólica e a concentração em elementos recorrentes tornaram a marca registrada de DAG. Traduzido em substitutos abstratos, DAG inunda telas brancas com formas em retrospectiva para sua intuição composicional e coloca-os em um movimento rotativo. Visto a distância, as telas parecem ser painéis perfeitamente construídos. Uma visão de close-up revela erros, pinceladas, omissões, que enfraquecem a superficialidade das superfícies e revelam a trilha do pintor.

Desde os meus estudos de arte, estou interessado em formas geométricas abstratas. Com referências a Kasimir, Malevich e Vassily Kandinsky são formas de pontos iniciais para minha pintura não representacional
em telas ou paredes. Nos meus primeiros anos como jovem pintor no pós-socialista e reunido Berlim, eu estava tentando encontrar um estilo individual entre as prioridades conflitantes de pinturas realistas
pelos artistas berlinenses da ex-RDA, bem como de Berlim Oeste e da techno-cena emergente em Berlim. Neste clima especial de terra de despejo político depois que o muro caiu (1989/90) na Alemanha e uma nova vanguarda, encontrei minha linguagem artística: uso formas abstratas tradicionais e trazê-los em constelações dinâmicas e pulsantes. Constantemente estou desenvolvendo esta estratégia .Além disso: um dilúvio de triângulos ou milhares de pontos transformam galerias inteiras em um ambiente geométrico. Na minha pintura, uso a tela branca como um campo de jogos para minhas turbulências geométricas.

Strong chiaroscuro, monochrome colour areas, geometric shapes, lines and dots – their symbolic aggregation and the concentration on recurring elements has made DAG his trademark. Translated into abstract surrogates, DAG floods white canvases with shapes in retrospect to his compositional intuition and puts them into a rotating movement. Seen from a distance, the canvases seem to be perfectly constructed panels. A close-up view reveals blunders, brushstrokes, omissions, that weaken the superficiality of surfaces and reveals the painter’s trail.

Since my art studies I’m interested in abstract geometrical forms. With references to Kasimir
Malevich and Vassily Kandinsky are this forms initial points for my non-representational painting
on canvases or walls. In my starting years as a young painter in the post-socialist and reunited
Berlin I was trying to find an individual style between the conflicting priorities of realistic paintings
by Berlin-based artists from the ex-GDR as well as West-Berlin and the emerging techno-scene
in Berlin. In this special climate of political waste land after the wall came down (1989/90) in
Germany and a new avant-garde I found my artistic language: I use traditional abstract forms
and bring them in dynamic and pulsating constellations. Constantly I’m developing this strategy
further: A flood of triangles or thousands of dots makes entire galleries to a geometrical
environment. In my painting I use the white primed canvas as a playground for my geometrical
turbulences.

Bibliografia/Bibliography

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CV

Born in 1964 in Eberswalde / Germany. 1985–1989 studiedartstudiesand German studies at the Humboldt University aswellasseminars in painting and print graphics at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. After the Wall fall, orientation in the art scene of London and Berlin. Collaboration works with the artist Jim Avignon. Since 2001 solo career as a painter. Numerous international exhibitions in museums: Goethe Institute, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Singapore, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Museum Junge Kunst Franfort / Oder, ICA London among others; and galleries in Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Chicago, Jochen Hempel Berlin, Mikael Andersen Kopenhagen, Marie KirkegaardKopenhagan, Laden für Nichts Leipzig etc. DAG lives and works in Berlin / Germany.

Exposições/Exhibitions

Exposições Selecionadas/Selected Exhibitions

2017
Struktur – group show, Kunstraum Tyson, Köln
Rausch – group show, Schau-Fenster, Berlin
Golden Ass – group show, LFN Laden für Nichts, Leipzig
Construction Time Again – solo show with Karsten Konrad,
R&U Alexandra Erlhoff
It’s all over now, Part 2 – solo show, Kunstverein „Weltecho“
, Chemnitz
Disjunktion – solo show with Dirk Krecker, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
2016
It’s Allover Now – solo show, Bar Babette (autocenter), Berlin
Content Moderation – group show, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
Herz Haus Messer Kreuz – group show, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/O
Maximum Likelihood – group show, Kunsthaus Erfurt
2015
SLOWBURN – soloshow, Projektraum M1 , Berlin
Minimal Compact – soloshow, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
Glue @ Amsterdam – group show, PS Amsterdam
Colour me full – group show, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery , Kopenhagen
Close and closer – Group show, POP Up ART , Linienstrasse 141, Berlin
Group show, PLU 41, Berlin
Group show, Schau Fenster, Berlin
2014
Laura Mars @ Art14, art fair, London
Angst essen Farbe auf – show with Hannu Prinz, smac, Berlin
PICTONES – group show, Laura Mars, Berlin
AND I WAS LIKE …- solo show, hanfweihnacht, Frankfurt / Main
Kimme und Korn – show with Dirk Krecker, Laden für Nichts, Leipzig
The Cambridge Rules – group show, Jochen Hempel, Berlin
Wonderfull things to believe in – group show, Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
Disclosure – solo show, Hammerschmidt & Gladigau, Erfurt
Please don’t kill my vibe …
– show with Rebecca Michaelis, Kunsthaus Erfurt
Double Take – show with Peter K. Koch, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt / Oder
2013
Never mind the bollocks, group show, JR Gallery Berlin
mothership, group show, saasfee pavillon Frankfurt / Main
Dutch Treat, group show, DADA-Post, Berlin
Der Nebel und das Glas, group show infernoesque, Berlin
Chancen und Risiken, group show, Galerie hanfweihnacht, Frankfurt / Main
„Alles Wasser“, group show, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
PROP, solo Show at Laura Mars Grp., Berlin
Laura Mars @ Art13, art fair, London
2012
»new abstractions«, White Trash Contemporary, group show, Hamburg,
»Alles Wasser«, Galerie Mikael Andersen, group show, Berlin,
Slow Burn, Galerie hanfweihnacht, solo exhibition, Frankfurt/Main,
Rasterfahndung, KUNSTMUSEUM Stuttgart, group show, Stuttgart
2011
INCLUSION, Laura Mars Group Berlin
KETTENREAKTION, group show, Kunsthaus Erfurt, October
2010
Massenbeschleuniger, group show, Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt am Main,
2009
am besten besenrein, gutleut 15 ausstellungsraum, das vorbeiprogramm,
Forgotten Bar Projekt, group show, Berlin
Armella Show,group show, Innenministerium Erfurt
Wieder 5 Deutsche, group exhibition, PIT, Tilburg
2008
Amsterdam, NL; group exhibition @ kunstruimte09.nl
Berlin; Laura Mars Group (group exhibition)
Berlin; Laura Mars Group (with Jens Hagen Engelhard)
Erfurt; Kunsthaus Erfurt; »minimal compact« (with Jens Hagen Engelhard)
2007
Brussels; »minimal compact« (H29)
Berlin; »pussy pussy hello hello« (Glue)
Düsseldorf; »Fair for Contemporary Art«, Messe Düsseldorf
Berlin; »Glue – Total Recall«, group exhibition
2006
Cologne; »New Contemporaries (Art Cologne)«
Berlin; »III. Berliner Kunstsalon«
Amsterdam; »PS Exhibition«, group exhibition
Berlin; »Heute hier und morgen weg.«, group exhibition
Erfurt, Kunsthaus Erfurt; DAG »Ansätze«
Berlin, Galerie Asim Chugtai; DAG »Where Is the Beef?«
Hamburg, Galerie Hafen+Rand; »Hängt die Sonne«
2005
Berlin, 2. Berliner Kunstsalon: »word & object«
Berlin, glue: »outsourcing«
Greifswald, eye kyu: DAG – »Hilde kommt«
München, Galerie Hobbyshop: DAG – »Bruno kommt«
Frankfurt a. M., Gutleut 15 Ausstellungsraum: Schwarz auf Weiss (DAG, Ingo
Frölich, Dirk Krecker, Olaf Probst, Frank Reinecke)
Berlin, Autocenter: Jessica Centner, Peter K. Koch, Andreas Korte, Dirk Krecker,
Jens Risch, DAG.
Berlin, Bar at Karl Marx Allee, interior wall-painting.
Düsseldorf, konsortium: DAG – earth, wind & fire.
2004
Berlin: glue, „Welt ohne Gegenstände“, group exhibition
Singapore: Goethe Institut
Zuerich: BD Büro Destruct, with Jim Avignon
Berlin: Berliner kunstsalon, „fleisch“
Berlin: Glue, with peter k. koch
2003
Berlin: Showroom, „If you know what I mean?“
Berlin: Austellungsraum „Fleisch“ @ Café Moskau
Tokyo: Rocket Gallery, Laboratory Istinct presents: DAG „unknown pleasures“
Cologne: Gallery Fiebach & Minninger, „New Balance“
2002
Berlin: Glaspavillon/Volksbühne, „aggregat“, coop with Sebastian Meyer
Chicago: Heaven Gallery, „Blueblood/Blue Collar“
2001
Berlin: Haus Schwarzenberg, „Kreatin“
Paris: Galerie Espace Kiron, „Doping“
Offenbach: Fahrradhalle
Tel Aviv: Tal Esther Gallery

Site do Artista/Artist Site

www.dagberlin.de

Seleção de Imprensa/Selected Press

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