Renate Jung and Hilde Würtheim

Pictures and Sculptures

01.12.2003 - 31.01.2004

It was in a virtuoso and wonderfully rousing manner that Christian Reichert played his guitar: from variations on a theme from Mozart or Paganini, a sonata or a tango by Roland Dyens – the ”devil's guitarist” thrilled his audience and set the musical counterpoint to the exceptional and remarkable ”con form” exhibition of pictures by Renate Jung and sculptures by Hilde Würtheim. The ”Cooperation” of ideas and a congenial interplay of colours, form and music between the three artists turned the evening into an experience. Our LAUDA FabrikGalerie has long since established itself as a permanent institution on the art scene in the region – and way beyond. The original idea from the company founder and initiator Dr. Gerhard Wobser of ”Bringing art to the workplace” has not only generated interest amongst employees, but also attracted the attention of many art fans from all over Germany: indeed, from many other countries too. Pictures by Renate Jung from Würzburg will be causing a sensation in the FabrikGalerie over the next couple of months. Apart from the twelve small-format etchings entitled ”Through the year with Renate Jung”, all pictures are without exception large format and represent a multitude of themes, messages and colour. The visitor inevitably stops, quickly changing from an observer of, to a communicator with, the pictures, falling under the spell of the spacious, clear and fixed, sometimes severe, compositions of the faces and figure landscapes. Clay sculptures by Hilde Würtheim stand, sit and crouch between the pictures. Intimate with her simplification of nature and naturalness, natural worth and grace, lively in their charm, cheerful in the brightness of colours and both original and humorous with their embellishments. The artist blends fiction with real role models, creates her own sculptures or reproduces original sculptures, such as the Franconian regional writer Willi Schwappacher or Monika and Karl, a married couple from the community of Eschenau. Hilde Würtheim freely constructs her structures, which means that the clay material is freely shaped and then fired. This necessitates safe materials in dealing with clay. ”It is her objective to attain a high degree of reduction and to work out the characteristic features such that the portrait is recognisable. Managing partner Dr. Gunther Wobser, who presented the artists with flowers and gifts, expressed a sentiment felt by many guests to the vernissage thus: ”The establishment of the LAUDA FabrikGalerie was a brilliant idea of my father's”.

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