Uwe Klos

Resonant images in the LAUDA FactoryGallery -
Artist Uwe Klos from Cossengrün exhibits a cross-section of his works

01.08.2009 - 30.09.2009

Born and based in the Vogtland town of Cossengrün, the artist Uwe Klos will be exhibiting his collection in the LAUDA FactoryGallery from the beginning of August to the end of September 2009. Creating works inspired by the extremely appealing landscape on the Thuringia-Saxony border, the painter, illustrator and photographer has not only made a name for himself in the Gera area and Thuringia. Uwe Klos lives and works in a spartan and more or less secluded – but in no way lonesome – environment, devoid of any real relationship with the locals, but with a deep bond with nature and his garden. He beams with delight when talking about his life of “independent self-sufficiency” that allows him to follow his calling as an artist in an almost uncompromising manner. Uwe Klos processes impressions that originate externally as well as in his own experiences, the upshot of which is a collection of expressive images of unbridled wildness and narrative power. These landscapes and configurations can be primarily interpreted as inner landscapes, as formulations frequently conceived as dreamy improvisations, as emotions set in colour. His world is full of bright and strong colours, which he explores and reflects with wonderful facility and a confident feeling for rhythm, contrast and tone; as the English writer John Ruskin once proclaimed, “the world is an arrangement of different colours”.

However, signs and symbols that influence the vision and thoughts are becoming increasingly scarce in the latest, large-format canvas images from Uwe Klos. Even the relevance of lines created in the paint with a specific brush style have been increasingly lost to a painting style based on greater masses of paint. Conceptionally more important, however, are the “stratifications”, layers of colours representing layered thoughts and stages of recollection, events that have been discarded and yet stored. A reference to this work complex is the range of paintings exclusively in red created in 2008. How consuming, almost cruelly, the image creating process can be has been documented on the back of the canvas by Uwe Klos, who noted, almost diary-like, the respective processing date. A work is first complete when it has a striking resonance, just like a successful musical composition; only then is it valid. Subsequently, in the words of the artist, the image should be in a room where the observer is able to live and experience the joy and confidence of his formulations, and the fact that the world has added something beautiful and unique. This resonant and colourful exhibition in the LAUDA FactoryGallery can be viewed by interested parties during working hours subject to registration.

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