are you lost?

Jörg Kuplens

2020 • Germany • India Ink, Colored Pencil on Paper , Other rigid frame under plexiglas

20 x 16 in

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Jörg Kuplens

Germany

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Medium : India Ink, Colored Pencil on Paper , Other rigid frame under plexiglas
Framing : Framed
Dimensions : 19.7x15.7in

About this artwork

Do you know the feeling of being alone and sinking into thoughts?
But suddenly you have to find that strange creatures are following you, mythical creatures are looking at you or female figures are watching you in silence.
You look around and see only dead leaves waving on gnarled, rooted branches.
Encounters in nature. Female figures, limbs, bodies and fantastic beings arise in passing from roots, embankments, tree trunks or cadavers, old pipes… and garbage. In connection with personal moods and absorbed atmospheric impressions, you will find your own design language in the picture.
By repeatedly sanding the surface of the picture, I show the viewer a past that is similar to the drawings on the walls of old buildings or caves. On this 'weathered surface', I use Indian ink and an art pen to apply motifs from observations of nature, humans and animals.

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Jörg Kuplens

Germany

Credentials

Experienced Artist
Residency Participant
Featured in gallery curations
Works on commission

« Allowing new visual and emotional stimuli to flow into the artistic work certainly opens up new "horizons" for me. »

You know the feeling of being alone, lost in thought. Suddenly, strange creatures seem to be following you, mythical beings watching you. But when you turn around, they are only withered leaves on gnarled branches. Rain exposes the delicate limbs of a hand in the fallen leaves; intertwined bodies seem to lie in the grass, arms and legs knotted together.
Raindrops fill a rusty vessel. A bird drinks from it, a beetle basks in the sun on an overturned coffee maker. An abandoned shed creaks in the wind, an animal peers out from a tree fork. Then two female figures appear in the light, glistening from the rain. Laughter echoes through the treetops, plants unfurl – everything is in motion.
This is where my work begins: perceptions condense into a formal language situated between figuration and abstraction. Forms emerge and dissolve again, the familiar becomes strange. My hope is that this will sharpen our perception of what is immediately present.

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