PANTA RHEI
On Saturday 11/6, FOUGARO THE GALLERY Nafplion will be opening a major exhibition by two eminent German artists, Herbert Mehler and Sonja Edle von Hoessle, in association with Tammen & Partner Gallerie.
The exhibition, which is entitled “PANTA RHEI” (Everything Flows), will remain on display until Sunday 30/10 and is staged with the support of the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe Institute, Athens.
This is the first presentation in Greece of the work of two extremely popular German artists who spend a large part of their year in the Argolid, in the village of Kranidi near Ermioni. The exhibition, which includes works displayed al fresco in Fougaro’s grounds, includes large- and small-scale sculptures in bronze as well as a number of painted works.
The title, a reference to Heraclitus’ famous dictum, alludes to the unaffected beauty of nature. In their personal visual universe, the two artists capture this same beauty in larger-than-life, biomorphic, abstract works in which they work with simple, rough-hewn forms, materials which are part of the natural landscape, and textural elements which compose and recompose the world as we know it. As the art theorist, Dr. Melanie Klier, notes: “...and then everything flows in a fairy-tale maelstrom of the most diverse colour and light values from deep water and back into oneness. ‘Panta rhei’…”
Exhibition curators: Florica P. Kyriacopoulos, Antonis J. Kontroyiannis
Lighting: Filippos Koutsaftis
Opening: Saturday 11 June 2016, 12 pm
Dates: 11 June – October 30, 2016
The works inside FOUGARO THE GALLERY will remain on display until Sunday 21 August, while the al fresco works will be in the FOUGARO grounds until Sunday 30 October.
The exhibition can be visited from Wednesday to Sunday.
The exhibition is staged in association with Tammen & Partner Gallerie and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe Institute, Athens.
The artists will be staging workshops for children inspired by the works in the show on Sunday 12, Saturday 18 and Sunday 19th of June at Fougaro.
HERBERT MEHLER
Herbert Mehler was born in 1949 in Steinau near the city of Fulda. Between 1964 and 1968 he studied the art of woodcarving under his father, Franz Mehler. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg between 1972 and 1976. In 1996, he was the recipient of the Nürnberger Nachrichten’s Recognition Award, while the same newspaper bestowed its Art Award on him in 2007. He won the Art Prize of the city of Würzburg in the same year. In 2008, he was awarded the First Prize of the city of Mörfelden – Walldorf by the Association of Galleries in Hessen and the Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) for his work “Sculptures in the Park”. www.herbert-mehler.com
SONJA EDLE VON HOESSLE
Sonja Edle von Hoessle was born in 1960 in Wiesbaden and studied Visual Communication in the Plastic Arts departments at the Mainz and Würzburg universities of Applied Sciences (FH Mainz & FH Würzburg). She graduated in 1993 and founded the "two hands” metallurgy workshop. In 1996, she received the Young Artist Award from the Bavarian State Ministry for Sciences, Research and the Arts. Her studio received funding from the Bavarian Art Fund in 1998-1999. In 2003, she won the City of Würzburg Art Prize. She kept a studio in Berlin, 2008-2011. www.edle-von-hoessle.com
