Aug 28th 2011

Volker Saul – Rough Cuts

@ devening projects + editions

3039 West Carroll, Chicago, IL 60612

Opening Sunday, August 28th, from 4PM - 7PM

On view through Saturday, October 8th

For more than 25 years, Cologne-based artist Volker Saul has been amassing an extensive internal database of organic and body-suggestive imagery that continually morphs to satisfy the needs of the most current project. The result of that processing is remarkably varied — drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, site-specific wall paintings and public sculpture. The pieces presented in Rough Cuts are resolute; the new forms are concentrated, cut out, compositionally efficient and offered up in an emblematic or heraldic presentational format. This laser-cut aluminum work offers a very rich visual and conceptual experience for the viewer. The material is machined to perfection, but the images are provocative and not always with the most appealing associations. Internal organs, appendages, insects, plant forms, and prickly surfaces carry on in exotic circumstances. The results are graphically satisfying but also peculiar, much like the way a disturbing dream troubles well after the images evaporate.

Since the mid-80s, Volker Saul has made site-specific wall paintings and works which operate in the interstitial space between image and object. He has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Caren Jones in Cologne; Nagoya at Gallery HAM in Paris; at Galerie Gutharc-Ballin in Auckland: at City Art Rooms among others. His work has been featured at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn; the Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne; the Leopold Hoesch Museum Düren; the Dortmunder Kunstverein; and the Kunstverein Mönchengladbach. In the U.S. he was included in group exhibitions at the Pratt Institute in NY and the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago. He has received the Günther and Carola Peill scholarship, the Kunstpreis des Kreises Düren, and the Euregio Art Award from Kleve. Volker Saul is featured concurrently in K.O.F.G.A., a solo exhibition at the Gahlberg Gallery at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellen, Illinois. The exhibition opens on Thursday, August 25 from 6 – 8 pm.

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