Summer Exhibitions at Galerie Benjamin Eck Delve into Light and Space

The artist Emanuel Mooner transforms remains, remnants and scrap into works of art. On the other hand, the artist Volker Behrend Peters places light in the focus of his work. To create her sculptural pieces, Katharina Lehmann uses the unique Thread-Drip painting technique consisted of countless threads intersecting and intertwining to form a network, an organic environment. Working with steel, the artist Jürgen Heinz creates Moving Sculptures that transcend the insurmountable contrast between archaic, heavy steel and gentle movement. The work of these four artists is featured in two separate exhibitions at the Galerie Benjamin Eck. Titled Wax & Light, the exhibition features Objets Trouvé by Emanuel Mooner consisted of neon tubes and deformed car body parts of accident vehicles and Volker Behrend Peters’ delicate and fragile work consisting of paraffin layers. On the other hand, the exhibitionThe Space Within deals withthe construction of reality through works of  Katharina Lehmann and Jürgen Heinz.

Wax And Light

Neon tubes, which once adorned decal plaques, and deformed car body parts that Emanuel Mooner uses for his sculptures can no longer be assigned to their original purpose, but their spontaneous form is intended in the combination. The bright neon tubes remind the viewer of their original purpose, while at the same time changing perception and leaving new forms and structures behind the light. The work of Volker Behrend Petersbreaks the light in its transparent structure. Building waxy ramifications with a brush, the artist creates shapes and patterns by varying the pressure and the direction. The more light falls on these structures, they appear more dense and almost white.

The Space Within

The exhibition The Space Within deals with reality and veritableness as abstract concepts that represent the interior of a group, a society. The artist Katharina Lehmann takes up this construction of reality in her objects. Creating organic structures with thread and acrylic paint, she introduces the natural, chaotic element in form of coincidental connections and incidents that shape our reality and perception. On the other hand, Jürgen Heinz abstracts reality and veritableness a bit further, destroying the expectations on his material, the steel. From this material, the artist creates movable, futuristic sculptures that change space by their mere presence.