Dr. Ulrich Jost

Current exhibition of this versatile artist

01.04.2009 - 30.05.2009

The next two months will once again see a new exhibition at the LAUDA FactoryGallery, where Dr. Ulrich Jost, a doctor for 30 years in the Tauber Valley and a member of the Lauda-Königshofen Art Circle for 23 years, will be showing his latest works. Although two of the total of 16 exhibits were shown on the occasion of the Bad Mergentheim town anniversary, this is the first time the collection has been displayed in its entirety. Now, however, this artistic form of expression is celebrating its premiere at LAUDA Dr. Wobser, actively supported by the Lauda-Königshofen Art Circle and its Chairman, Norbert Gleich. Ulrich Jost began to take photographs at the age of 12 and already had an interest in fine arts in high school. However, academic and professional activities initially took priority. Membership of the Lauda-Königshofen Art Circle played a large part in reawakening his artistic ambitions; whereupon Dr. Jost successfully completed courses in painting and ceramics, was supported by several qualified photographers (critically, as he himself notes), and participated in a number of exhibitions. Prizes in regional and national photography competitions, as well as independent exhibitions as a photographer, graphic artist, painter and ceramic artist then followed. The Art Circle has also always been able to count on Dr. Jost for new and surprising works to show at its local exhibitions. Indeed it was for an exhibition in the art circle gallery in 2006 that he created his "Gnomaliens" – bizarre sculptured beings embodying a fantastic mix of gnomes and aliens – which inspired a whole host of interested questions about materials and technique. With the current exhibition, this versatile artist is once again breaking new ground. The synthesis of photography, digital image processing incorporating every possible refinement, printed on high-grade artist’s canvas and professionally mounted with tenter frames, all lend the images a quite unique appeal. As with the Gnomaliens mentioned above, each one of these individual, artistically processed photos, including the particularly appealing example of the Upper Gatehouse in Lauda, offers a puzzle as to its creation. Even Dr. Gerhard Wobser and the Art Circle members were only offered the "briefest of insights" when Dr. Jost offered them an explanation of some of his images. This exceptional exhibition is available to all those interested and can be viewed during LAUDA’s normal business hours. irg/photo:Jung

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