Ludwig Gosewitz
01 Oct - 03 Dec 2010
Ludwig Gosewitz
Wahrheitsprofil
1 original drawing, Din A4, part of the box:
Erinnerungen. Zeichnungen 1967–1972.
Zweiter Teil
edition of 20, Berlin 1973
price on request
Wahrheitsprofil
1 original drawing, Din A4, part of the box:
Erinnerungen. Zeichnungen 1967–1972.
Zweiter Teil
edition of 20, Berlin 1973
price on request
LUDWIG GOSEWITZ
"everything is also there, to relieve that, which is not."
October 1 – December 3, 2010, opening Friday October 1, 6 - 9 pm
lecture at 7pm KOSMISCHE OPER, texts of Ludwig Gosewitz tone of Martin Engler
1960 Ludwig Gosewitz (1936 – 2007) began to publish in the „Marburger Blätter“. In 1962 his „typogramme 1“ were edited in the Eugen Gomringer Press. At the same time he joined the inner circle of Fluxus. Since then he was closely connected to Emmett Williams, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth and Tomas Schmit. His interest in chance operations and open performance practices, in Concrete Poetry and the combination with language researches led him to his early works like the „Wurftexte“ – a text-picture-mixture.
The intense preoccupation with language und colloquial speech defines his texts and „medleys“. They stem from his studies at the University in Marburg (1958 –1965). There he has contributed to the „Deutscher Sprachatlas“, which is about the origins of regional and social differences in the use of language. Walter Grasskamp: „The precise ear for the nuances of the colloquial speech and the sense for its humor is mainly funded in this experience of hearing and thus an academic project which yielded to an completely unacademic solution.“
In the 60ies Ludwig Gosewitz and Tomas Schmit started to develop special ways to draw which head Gosewitz to his later astrological diagrams and compass drawings. Next to the collaboration events with Tomas Schmit, like „eintagesverlag“ (1965) and „eintagestournee“ (1966), they draw the book „von phall zu phall“ (1966) and they experimented with a drawing method they called „inversions“. Already in 1965/66 Gosewitz and Schmit proclaimed „the personal age“. In an manifesto they wrote: „the personal age is introducing new words, like: decided. quiet. permanent. direct. consistent. original. spontaneous. human. not distinguishable. self-conscious. basic.“
Gosewitz realised these fundamentals in his drawings. He found methods to transfer astrological birth constellations in a visual system. Via compasses and colours he translated the scientific knowledge about planetes and constellations into geometrical watercolours and gouaches.
In 1971 he began to create mouth-blown glass objects. With the years the glasses became another big part of his oeuvre. The process of producing the colourful vases and bowls, the working with the hot glass, functioned like an opposite pole to the geometrical and mathematical based drawings in terms of unpredictability and chance. From 1988 – 2001 Gosewitz worked in the Academy of Art in Munich as professor for glass art.
Our exhibition presents works from 1962 to 2007. We partly reconstructed and kept the presentation of Ludwig Gosewitz' last exhibition in 2007 at Jürgen Becker Gallery in Hamburg. In collaboration with the estate of Gosewitz and collectors we developed a small retrospective overview.
Friday 1st of October at 7 pm the actor Martin Engler will read texts by Ludwig Gosewitz in our gallery in Linienstr. 158.
"everything is also there, to relieve that, which is not."
October 1 – December 3, 2010, opening Friday October 1, 6 - 9 pm
lecture at 7pm KOSMISCHE OPER, texts of Ludwig Gosewitz tone of Martin Engler
1960 Ludwig Gosewitz (1936 – 2007) began to publish in the „Marburger Blätter“. In 1962 his „typogramme 1“ were edited in the Eugen Gomringer Press. At the same time he joined the inner circle of Fluxus. Since then he was closely connected to Emmett Williams, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth and Tomas Schmit. His interest in chance operations and open performance practices, in Concrete Poetry and the combination with language researches led him to his early works like the „Wurftexte“ – a text-picture-mixture.
The intense preoccupation with language und colloquial speech defines his texts and „medleys“. They stem from his studies at the University in Marburg (1958 –1965). There he has contributed to the „Deutscher Sprachatlas“, which is about the origins of regional and social differences in the use of language. Walter Grasskamp: „The precise ear for the nuances of the colloquial speech and the sense for its humor is mainly funded in this experience of hearing and thus an academic project which yielded to an completely unacademic solution.“
In the 60ies Ludwig Gosewitz and Tomas Schmit started to develop special ways to draw which head Gosewitz to his later astrological diagrams and compass drawings. Next to the collaboration events with Tomas Schmit, like „eintagesverlag“ (1965) and „eintagestournee“ (1966), they draw the book „von phall zu phall“ (1966) and they experimented with a drawing method they called „inversions“. Already in 1965/66 Gosewitz and Schmit proclaimed „the personal age“. In an manifesto they wrote: „the personal age is introducing new words, like: decided. quiet. permanent. direct. consistent. original. spontaneous. human. not distinguishable. self-conscious. basic.“
Gosewitz realised these fundamentals in his drawings. He found methods to transfer astrological birth constellations in a visual system. Via compasses and colours he translated the scientific knowledge about planetes and constellations into geometrical watercolours and gouaches.
In 1971 he began to create mouth-blown glass objects. With the years the glasses became another big part of his oeuvre. The process of producing the colourful vases and bowls, the working with the hot glass, functioned like an opposite pole to the geometrical and mathematical based drawings in terms of unpredictability and chance. From 1988 – 2001 Gosewitz worked in the Academy of Art in Munich as professor for glass art.
Our exhibition presents works from 1962 to 2007. We partly reconstructed and kept the presentation of Ludwig Gosewitz' last exhibition in 2007 at Jürgen Becker Gallery in Hamburg. In collaboration with the estate of Gosewitz and collectors we developed a small retrospective overview.
Friday 1st of October at 7 pm the actor Martin Engler will read texts by Ludwig Gosewitz in our gallery in Linienstr. 158.