//TOP 10 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS – volume VI 2023
The sixth edition of //TOP 10 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS is a must-have for art enthusiasts and collectors, presenting an in-depth look at ten of the world’s renowned contemporary artists. Featuring the work of Oto Rimele from Slovenia, Gerald Hushlak from Canada, Chan Suk Onfrom Hong Kong, Karl Weiming Lu from Australia, Rudik Petrosyan from the United States of America, Mae Jeon from the United States of America, Luana Stebule from the United Kingdom, Patricia Karen Gagica from Canada, Aline Pouget from France, and Josef Weidner from Germany.
This edition offers a wide range of creative approaches from Digital art, Abstract expressionism, Conceptual art, Neo-surrealism, Contemporary realism, Future conceptualism, and Performance. The book is available in both digital and museum-grade print formats and is edited and published by Petru Russu of Masters of Today (MOT).
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Kinetic Minimalism of the Light
“Rimele went even further; in his installations, he studied the laws of colour reflections and shadows with care and thus created magical new worlds in which materiality intertwines with their coloured shadowed dematerialisation.”
dr. Jure Mikuž
(in the book Oto Rimele. Spirituality of Material Absence, p. 28)
In the past tradition of painting, only the frontal parts of paintings were always the carriers of the content. I broke this millennial tradition and focused my attention on applying colour onto the edges and the back of the painting. These parts of my painting compositions are hidden from the viewer’s eye and are visible only indirectly – as reflections of the paint reflecting onto the wall area, addressing the viewer with their immaterial presence. This creates coloured light and coloured shadows, which change in the intensity of the coloured radiation in daylight. A single painting composition, however, does not show just one static image, but addresses the viewer with a multitude of images generated by the changing daylight throughout the day. The attentive observer experiences such kinetic pictorial images personally and as a complete mental (spiritual) experience.
In the paintings of past periods, light is depicted only indirectly – as an “illuminator” of the materiality of the pictorial motif. For me, light itself is the central motif of painting exploration. In my luminous painting objects, however, I do not depict light, but create it. It is an actual, present light that communicates with the viewer as a living, moving part of the artistic message.
In the series of fourteen images entitled Light and Ladder created in 2021, I add one or more ladders to the full-wood painting objects, which have been woven from a single piece of wire. The ladder is for the viewer’s mind and the light is for the viewer’s soul. The first rises, the second glows.
Our individual actions and thoughts are always also committed to the universality of the Universe. And the Universe, despite its apparent immobility, is possible, alive and active because of the uniqueness of the minds of individuals. Each one of us contributes in some way. And that is what counts.
O. Rimele
November, 2022
Berlin Portraits
Berlin Portraits represents the project of visualisation of a group of individuals in a spatial installation. The cycle consists of 13 portraits of people who lived in Berlin between 1961 and 1989. They are: Helmut, Werner, Karl, Liselotte, Ingrid, Monika, Walter, Manfred, Gerhard, Ute, Günter, Peter and Hans.
Berlin Portraits represents the project of visualisation of a group of individuals in a spatial installation. The cycle consists of 13 portraits of people who lived in Berlin between 1961 and 1989. They are: Helmut, Werner, Karl, Liselotte, Ingrid, Monika, Walter, Manfred, Gerhard, Ute, Günter, Peter and Hans.
Berlin Portraits predstavlja projekt vizualizacije skupine posameznikov v obliki prostorske intalacije. Cikel sestavlja 13 portretov oseb, ki so živeli v med leti 1961-89 v Berlinu. Njihova imana so: Helmut, Werner, Karl, Liselotte, Ingrid, Monika, Walter, Manfred, Gerhard, Ute, Günter, Peter in Hans.
Each person is depicted with a specific combination of light and shadow, which is reflected by the 13 vertical painting objects onto the wall or onto their environment. Their portrait images are created as a reflection of paint, as light and shadow responding to the changes in daylight or artificial light in the environment. They offer the spectators an image that slowly, but constantly changes and warns us of the necessity of summing the created images into a single one. The portrait depictions do not show the portrayed person’s external material and physiological qualities, but they rather reflect their non-material image, their ethical dimensions and their mental and spiritual space. The depictions show the portrayed person’s personality in a moving image defined by the presence and absence of light generated by an individual painting object.
I am aware that in experiencing reality every spectator attempts to possess the World and the Truth and connect them into a whole. In experiencing the described portraits, it is essential that the spectators share their own light and shadow with the image of the portrayed person. This is the only way that the above named and depicted persons can come to life Here and Now. And the spectator becomes the active possessor of the image. “He who possesses the world, but not its image, possesses only half the world because their soul is poor and without possessions,” wrote C. G. Yung in The Red Book*.
O. Rimele
December, 2021
* C. G. Yung, The Red Book – Das Rote Buch, p. 130.
Oto Rimele: Dynamic Rectangle II
2023
wood, paint
122 x 9 x 4 cm
Photo: Vojko Stiplovšek
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Oto Rimele is a painter, an author of spatial-acoustic ambiences, a researcher of mental dimensions of the visual expression and sound. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in 1990 and a Master’s degree in 1992 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, he has dedicated most of his creative path to researching the painting communication and the phenomenon of visual expressive possibilities.
His personal experience with the world and reality we live in has led him to achieve a unique painting expression and surpass the classical appearance of paintings. Expanding his painting image first directed him to the field of “painting objects”, “combined paintings”, painting installations and to activating atypical parts of the painting – its hidden edges and rear parts. Thus he created unique painting images – “generators of light”, where the frontal image gives way to the expressiveness of the “edges” or “rear” parts of the painting. After finishing his studies, his painting expression was first focused on the painting mimesis of the visible reality, but then the motif was upgraded to a symbolic and non-material meaning. His final motif is light itself and the mental-sublime reality in the sense of exploring the optical and painting reality of the medium of expression. The painter describes his attitude to light in the following words: “…this is why I don’t depict light in my paintings, but I directly activate it as the literal sensory presence”.
His painting images (painting objects) are three dimensional and allow for the colour to reflect onto the wall, so that the observer can see its non-material reflection in the shape of coloured Light and as a non-material connection. Dr Nataša Smolič describes his “generators of light” as: “The oval paintings give the feeling that somewhere in their essence, invisible to the human eye, there is a light source, which disperses the cleansed and superior light through the reflective whiteness of the wall into the space.” Dr Marjeta Ciglenečki recognises his sublime communication with the individual as a bridge that allows the observer to gain an insight: “Many of Mr Rimele’s public expositions can be described as simply beautiful if we follow Plotinus’s explanation of the Beautiful and if we believe that observing the Beautiful also makes the observer beautiful.”
Oto Rimele has been passing on his creative experience to the students of the University of Maribor for many years.
In recent years, Oto Rimele prepared independent expositions presenting his work in New York (Pratt Institute, 2019), Vienna (Korotan Gallery, 2018), Berlin (Galerie B1, Schönberg) and Maribor (the former Minorite church, 2018).
In 2016 and 2017 he participated in the joint exposition in the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.
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The Artists in this issue:
Abraham Dayan, Adam Pendleton, Adela Ginés y Ortiz, Ahmed Morsi, Ai-Wen Wu Kratz, Aki Inomata, Alain Rousseau, Alberto Baraya, Alexander Calder, Alexander Groves, Aline Pouget, Alla Preobrazhenska-Ronikier, Amanda Williams, Andre Rusu, Andrea E. Sroka, Andy Warhol, Anna Martine Whitehead, Annick Collet, Antonio Fillol Granell, Astrida Neimanis, Azusa Murakami, Baldomero Gili y Roig, Barbara Pazzaglia, Benito Mayor Vallejo, Bosch, Britta Ortiz, Cao Minghao, Carla Kleekamp Ferdinandus, Carlos Casas, Carlos Verger Fioretti, Carol Carpenter, Cecilia Vicuna, Chan Suk On, Chen Jianjun, Clare Britton, Dai Chenlian, Dalia Blauensteiner, Derwin Leiva, Diana Marschall, Diane Holland Grunberg, Diego Velázquez, DnA, Dorothea Van De Winkel, Duygu Kivanc, Dürer, Eduardo Rosales, El Greco, Elena Brockmann de Llanos, Ellsworth Kelly, Emie Morissette, Erna Klaus, Erica Fromme, Bartolomé E. Murillo, Etel Adnan, Feliciano Centurión, Felipe Mercadal Borghetti, Fra Angelico, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Goya, Gregg Bordowitz, Gro Folkan, Halas and Batchelor, Hanna Scheriau, Heather Phillipson, Howard Harris, Huang Siyao, Hylozoic/Desires, Ibiye Camp, Ignacio Montano, Igor Nelubovich, Infanta Catherine Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, Istook Smajs Muni, Jackson Pollock, Jean Jacques Porret, Jenni Souter, Joaquín Espalter y Rull, John Trinh, Jorge A. Colombo March, Jorge Rigamonti, Joseph’s Chastity Antonio del Castillo, Joseph E. Yoakum, Joseph Virgone, Josip Rubes, José de Ribera, Juan Canals, Juan de Flandes, Juan van der Hamen y León, Julia Alcayde y Montoya, Karel Witt, Karen HØjsgård Nielsen, Kirsi Porrassalmi, Kurt Schwitters, Larz Eldbåge, Lawrence Lek, Lidy De Brouwer,Madame Anselma (Alejandrina Gessler de Lacroix), Mae Jeon, Marceliano Santa María Sedano, Maren Hassinger, Margaret Bourke-White, Maria Teresa Guala, Marianne Mylonas-Svikovsky (Marlo), Marina Albornoz, Mario Cobàs (Mario Carchini), Mariojosé Angeles, Marta Dimitrescu, María Luisa de la Riva y Callol de Muñoz, María Roësset Mosquera, Meriem Bennani, Michele Macchia, Mimmo Paladino, Misa Aihara, Monica Michelotti, Moussa Salman, Neelon Crawford, Niki de Saint Phalle, Orna Adoram, Oto Rimele, Pablo Picasso, Pan Daijing, Patricia Karen Gagic, Patricia Noemi Queiruga, Paul Cézanne, Paul Ygartua, Pedro Sáenz Sáenz, Petru Russu, Plácido Francés y Pascual, Qiu Zhen, Ragnar Kjartansson, Ramon Rivas, Raphael, Raya Grinberg, Rembrandt, Renate Merzinger-Pleban, Richard Serra, Robert Morris, Rogier van der Weyden, Rubens, Salt Beyolu, Sandra Gottlieb, Sarah Charlesworth, Shigeko Kubota, Sinikka Elfving, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Sun Xiaoxing, Tabita Rézaire, Terry Golletz, Tiziano, Tong Wenmin, Tony Smith, Torkwase Dyson, Vasily Kandinsky, Vito Acconci, Wendy Cohen, Wiegen den Uyl, Wu Tsang, Yto Barrada, Zadie Xa, Zhao Kunfang, Zoltan Zsako.
Oto Rimele
Sea, Sky and Ladder
A series of twelve watercolor sheets entitled “Sea, Sky and Ladder”, realized in August 2020, was created as an intimate apotheosis of feelings, reflections on nature and the place of man in this wonderful all-encompassing reality of the Universe.
It is important to be aware that the message through the display of nature allows the viewer to establish contact with the properties of the Universe, which are able to create different and completely new temporalities and construct specific mental spaces. A significant aspect of this type of Rimele’s research is manifested in this cycle in the form of existential necessity, the longing of the individual, and the veil of romantic melancholy. The presence of light scattering through transparent layers of applied paint, traces of water movement and activation of the space of “gaps”, are the basic characteristics of the creative relationship when the artist builds an entity of watercolor reality.
Rimele’s confrontation with the landscape is actually an entry into those dimensions of reality that through the scene – where Heaven and Earth merge in a horizontal line – offer the viewer contemplation, confrontation and also transitions. Rimele’s depicted scenes are dramatic, as the author focuses on depicting moments that lead from the realm of a static and recognizable landscape into a dynamic and intimate experience of the time of Transition and Transition. In his works, he moves from the universal to the individual and vice versa, because our personal entities and decisions are the building blocks of this broadest whole to which we belong. Rimele says, “Our individual actions and thoughts are also always committed to the omnipresence of the Universe. And the Universe (Universe), despite its apparent immobility, is possible, alive and active because of the uniqueness of the individual meanings of individuals, and each of us contributes in some way. And that counts. “
Dr. Marjeta Ciglenečki recognizes artistic sublime communication with the individual as a bridge that gives the viewer an inner insight: “Many of Rimele’s public presentations can be described simply as beautiful, if, of course, we follow Plotinus’ interpretation of Beauty and together observes. “
Oto Rimele is a full professor at the Faculty of Education in Maribor. In addition to painting, he is engaged in graphic design and scenography. He was also involved in music and, along with Zoran Predin, was one of the founders of the new wave rock group Lačni Franz and Laibach, and Sokoli.
A bilingual art monograph entitled “Oto Rimele: Spirituality of material absence” by Dr. Jure Mikuž was published in 2012.
In 2016 and 2017, he participated in a group exhibition in Paris at the Carrousel du Louvre.
The motif of the Ladder and the Transition was presented by the painter in a series of 12 watercolor sheets called Jacob’s Ladder, which was presented to the American public in July 2019 at the DDA Pratt Institute Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.
He has also exhibited in Vienna (Korotan Gallery, 2018), Berlin (Galerie B1, Schönberg) and Maribor (former Minorite Church, 2018).
He is the winner of the highest recognition in the Republic of Slovenia in the field of culture for 2003, the Prešeren Fund Award, for the exhibition “Illuminations” set up in the monastery church in Kostanjevica.
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BERLIN PORTRAITS (1961–89)
The Lights and Shadows of the Berliners
The series entitled “Berlin Portraits (1961–89)” is dedicated to those seeking light – especially those who sought freedom in 1961–89 and were thus confronted with their own light and shadow as well as with the bright and dark sides of German reality.
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WALTER / KOSTANJ / CHESTNUT / KASTANIE
Iz cikla Berlinski portreti (1961–1989)
106 x 8 x 3 cm
6/13
MONIKA / BREZA / BIRCH / BIRKE
Iz cikla Berlinski portreti (1961–1989)
105 x 7 x 3 cm
JÖRN & OTO
TAD & OTO
JACOBS LADDER
DDA Gallery
Pratt Institute Brooklyn
New York
In 2019, Oto Rimele painted ten watercolours quite large in size (approx. 800 x 600 mm), in which the predominant motif of the horizon was replaced by the Jacob’s ladder scene. The relation between the earth and the sky changed. All the papers are positioned vertically; the lower part features the earth, which is depicted more or less explicitly, the main part is occupied by ladder rungs floating in the unidentifiable void, and the upper part depicts the sky. Thin droplets of paint fall from the celestial sphere down between the rungs; they can be understood as expressions of infinite emotions and suffering or as glittering rays from the beyond. The application of watercolour paint on the roughly-structured hand-made paper is typical of Oto Rimele’s work. The effect of transparency prevails, but a large part of the paper surface is also left uncovered. The glittering white rungs stand out. Rimele achieved the light radiation effect, which is one of the main areas of his research in fine arts. Parallel to the large watercolour series, the artist created ten small square shaped watercolours (approx. 100 x 100 mm) with the same content. Due to the changed format, the number of rungs is reduced from five or seven to three or four, and the watercolour as a whole is more abstract. The painter coloured the back page of the small watercolours in intense yellow. Owing to the manner in which the watercolours are attached to the wall in the exhibition area, the tiny paintings are surrounded by a gentle yellow shadow – Jacob’s ladder is floating in the gallery.
Both watercolour series can be interpreted in accordance with the story from The First Book of Moses (28, 10–21). The biblical Patriarch Jacob dreamt of a ladder reaching up to the sky with angels ascending and descending on it. At the top of the ladder stood the Lord, who promised to give Jacob the land he fell asleep on and predicted that his generation will expand and that he would never leave this land. When Jacob woke up, he recognized the land where he was sleeping as the house of God and the door to heaven. He turned the stone where he lay his head into an altar. The Jacob’s ladder motif was particularly popular in the Middle Ages when they understood the story as a metaphor for Paradise and the announcement of Jesus Christ’s Ascension. Most older depictions of Jacob’s ladder follow the story from the Old Testament quite faithfully, but sometimes the artists allowed themselves some creative freedom. In Dutch painting, for instance, the ladder is sometimes replaced by light rays or the angels ascend and descend without touching the rungs of the ladder.
Jacob’s ladder has always been understood as a bridge between the earthly life, where our experience resides, and the other life, which remains completely secret except for a few chosen ones who can perceive a certain reflection from the beyond, but this can only happen in certain states, for example, in one’s sleep. In the past, it was significant that the depictions of Jacob’s ladder clearly defined the earth and the sky. However, the modern man also identifies with the undefined top of the ladder, which may get completely lost in dizzy heights. The mysterious power of Jacob’s ladder lies in the message of the biblical metaphor; yet, should we follow the Slovenian philosopher Marko Uršič’s interpretation, art also possesses a cognitive tendency characteristic of scriptures. Oto Rimele marked the bottom centre of the large watercolours with the title (JACOB’S LADDER), the number in the series, the signature and year. All the pencil-made inscriptions are in line with the ladder’s compositional structure. It seems as if the written words also shape themselves into rungs, thus persuading us to think that the artist perceives his mission as a gruelling ascent towards the unknown and the unspeakable, towards the beyond.
Marjeta Ciglenečki
NEW YORK (POETIC PERSPECTIVES)
POETIC PERSPECTIVES
The Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery
New York
O T O R I M E L E
AN AMBIENT OF THE LIGHT OF SHADOWS
Minoriti, Maribor
14.06– 11.09.2018
»Rimele’s paintings convey the impression that in their invisible core there is a focus of shining that disperses the refined and sublime light shadow through the reflective whiteness of the wall into the space.«
Dr. Nataša Smolič
Photo: Valeska Rimele
Photo: Valeska Rimele
Photo: Matej Fišer
Photo: Matej Fišer
O T O R I M E L E
ANOMALIES
KiBela
25.05 – 25.07. 2018
Oto Rimele’s Anomalies are visual exceptionalities, two-dimensional canvases with a three-dimensional effect, in which we perceive the length, surface and volume at the same time. Through the movement of the observer across the gallery space, Rimele adds the “fourth dimension” – time, which is related to the duration of the observer’s presence. It is only through this kind of co-existence that anomalies are created: the observer defines the subject matter of the works subjectively, and retrospectively. Each of the works thus becomes an anomalous image, a subjective emergence of a visual perspective that is reflected in the gallery space. The image becomes a proper object: it is there, because we see it; it is not there, because we are not there.
Nina Jeza, Artists&Poor’s
Photo: Damjan Švarc
Photo: Damjan Švarc
Photo: Damjan Švarc
Foto 4 KIBLA
Photo: Dijana Božić
O T O R I M E L E
K R O Ž N E S V E T L O B E / L E U C H T K R E I S E
P r o s t o r s k o – č a s o v n i a m b i e n t / E i n R a u m – Z e i t – A m b i e n t e
G a l e r i j a K o r o t a n
A l b e r t g a s s e 4 8 , D u n a j
G a l e r i e K o r o t a n
A l b e r t g a s s e 4 8 , 1 0 8 0 W i e n
20.04 – 18.05. 2018
“Če bi želeli razstave Ota Rimeleta doživeti zares celovito, bi morali v razstavišču preživeti vse dneve in ure njihovega trajanja. Rimele je z vztrajnim raziskovanjem razvil postopke slikanja, s pomočjo katerih dosega sevanje barve na stene galerijskega prostora. Intenziteta tega sevanja je odvisna od moči dnevne svetlobe, ki prodira skozi
odprtine v stenah razstavišča, zato so podobe na razstavi vsak trenutek drugačne. Bistvo Rimeletovega ustvarjalnega postopka je spreminjanje materije v barvni odsev, razbremenjen vsega otipljivega.”
dr. Marjeta Ciglenečki
“Würden wir die Ausstellungen von Oto Rimele tatsächlich in ihrer Gesamtheit erleben wollen, müssten wir jeden Tag und jede Stunde ihrer Dauer auf dem Ausstellungsgelände verbringen. Durch fortwährendes Forschen entwickelte Rimele ein einzigartiges Malverfahren, mit dem er Farben an die Wände des Galerieraums strahlen lässt. Die Intensität dieser Strahlung hängt von der Stärke des Tagelichts ab, das durch die Wandöffnungen der Ausstellungsräume eindringt und die ausgestellten Gemälde jeden Moment anders erscheinen lässt.
Die Verwandlung der Materie in eine Farbspiegelung, die von allem Greifbaren befreit ist, stellt die Essenz von Rimeles kreativem Prozess dar.”
Dr. Marjeta Ciglenečki
Live performance at Korotan Gallery
Foto: Matej Fišer
Foto: Matej Fišer
Foto: Matej Fišer
Foto: Matej Fišer
Foto: Matej Fišer
EXHIBITION MONASTERY ST. GEORGEN AM LÄNGSEE CARINTHIA
13.05 – 16.06. 2018
ALPE-ADRIA KÜNSTLER/INNEN
Avstrija Ferdinand Penker, Peter Krawagna, Valentin Oman, Gustav Januš, Suse Krawagna, Franco Kappl, Ulrich Plieschnig, Richard Kaplenig, Pepo Pichler, Ernst Gradischnig, Lisa Huber,
Alois Köchl, Gotthard Schatz, Kevin Rausch, Rudi Benétik, Sibylle von Halem, Werner Hofmeister, Helmut Machhammer, Britta Keber, Petar Waldegg, Andres Klimbacher, Karin Rupacher, Ralf Röll, Walter Teschl, Michael Dohr, Richard Klammer, Karl Schüssler, Fritz Unegg,
Gabi Simonitsch, Karl Vouk, Manuel Tschas, Gianni Magnanimi,
Franz Motschnig, Norbert Klavora
Slovenija Dušan Kirbiš, Ivo Prančič, Dare Birsa, Oto Rimele, Luka Popič, Maruša Suštar, Lucija Stramec, Marko Pak, Aleš Sedmak, Štefan Marflak, Jure Markota
Italija Manuela Sedmach, Ivan de Menis, Mario Palli
Slovaška Zuzana Kalinakova
Photo: Valeska Rimele
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Oto Rimele
Lévitation en vert
2016
Spreminjanje letnih časov je mogoče doživljati kot veličasten ritual narave. Podoba, ki nosi naslov Levitacija v zelenem, je nastala na koncu zimskega obdobja in se pojavlja kot slutnja ter napoved pomladi.
Je nekakšno slikarsko pomladno obredje (Igor Stravinski). Je ritual mentalne levitacije (Yves Klein), v katerem se združujeta ustvarjana moč posameznika in sile narave v skupno apoteozo življenja.
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Il est possible de vivre les changements des saisons comme un rituel sublime de la nature. L’oeuvre qui porte le nom “Lévitation en Vert” a été réalisée à la fin de la période de l’hiver et apparaît comme la prémonition et l’annonce du printemps.
C’est une sorte de sublimation artistique du printemps (Igor Stravinsky) C’est un rituel de la lévitation mentale (Yves Klein), au cours duquel s’assemblent la force créative de l’individu et l’hégémonie de la nature guidant vers une commune apothéose de la vie.
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The changing of seasons can be experienced as a majestic rite of nature. The painting titled Lévitation en vert was created at the end of winter and represents an anticipation as well as an announcement of spring.
It’s a kind of rite of spring (Igor Stravinsky) in painting. It’s a rite of mental levitation (Yves Klein) that combines the individual’s creative power and the powers of nature into a joint apotheosis of life.
Kresija Gallery
Ljubljana
Oto Rimele
300 SECONDS
A Composition for Five Images, Four Musical Compositions and Silence
May 19 – June 6, 2016
Barbara Savenc
How to capture a thought in a painting?
A thought, spanning through
space and time.
In February 1992 Oto Rimele wrote: “When we speak about a square, we actually think about a circle and when we speak about a circle, we feel a square.”
Two decades later he created Rounded mirror, a composition of seven wooden subframes, over which a canvas with wax coating is stretched, which is painted on the front-facing rectangular sides with white acrylic paint in different shades and thin layers, while on the borders and especially on the side panels stretching diagonally towards the wall in rose red, fluorescent shade. The reflections and shadows form a partially stretched circle around the carriers, in spite of the square shape made by the rod paintings, which depend only on the atmospheric light and not on the directed artificial light.
The other four exhibited images, presented for the first time on this occasion, have an abstract and at the same time deeply symbolic effect. Their enigmatic title consisting of the letter K and serial number, is directing us towards the initial letter of shapes that serve as a basis for all Rimele’s paintings, to the circle and the square. It seems that he want us to figure out on our own, about what we see, or at least what we surmise. (…)
Rimele’s seemingly breezily designed ambient has fused into a sound installation. Via mediation of music the feeling and thought free themselves and buzz, they resound through the following 300 seconds of silence – in the presence of the images, that bring us back to the cycle of human longing for the unspeakable, beyond the visible and understandable, as a path without a final destination. We remain without the final answer, as it would momentarily dissolve the inspiration and the desire for existence, for only the quest for the unfathomable, explaining it in thousands and endless variations of answers, is meaningful and contains beauty.
Photo: Marko Zaplatil
Photo: Marko Zaplatil
Photo: Marko Zaplatil
Photo: Andrej Cvetnič
Photo: Marko Zaplatil
Photo: Tamara Vodopivec
Photo: Branimir Ritonja
DIE MAGIE DER KUNST
Protagonisten der slowenischen Gegenwartskunst 1968–2013
Künstlerhaus Wien
Karlsplatz 5, Wien
6. Februar – 29. März 2015
Oto Rimele at Künstlerhaus in Vienna
MANFRED MÖRTH
OTO RIMELE
RELATIONS
Rimele: Spatial installation at “Art Factory”
Photo: Valeska Rimele
Rimele: Spatial installation at “Art Factory”
Photo: Valeska Rimele
Mörth: Spatial installation at “Art Factory”
Photo: Stojan Kerbler
Manfred Mörth and Oto Rimele
Photo: Stojan Kerbler
Magija umetnosti: Protagonisti slovenske sodobne umetnosti 1968-2013.
VILLA MANIN
2. april – 22. junij 2014
Vabilo
Oto Rimele: OVUM-RO, 2011
(postavitev v Villi Manin, foto: Valeska Rimele)
Oto Rimele: OVUM-RO, 2011
(postavitev v Villi Manin, foto: Damjan Kozole)
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| OTO RIMELE, La luz de la sombra/ OTO RIMELE, The Light of Shadow Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (CBA), Calle Alcalá 42, Madrid, Spain 5 February – 30 March 2014 Opening: Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 20:00 | |
Oto Rimele is one of the leading names of Slovenian contemporary fine arts. In the recent decades he has developed an entirely unique principle of expression that is minimalist, yet it carries complex meanings. His explorations are primarily focused on the laws of colour reflections, and he excels in attractive spatial arrangements for which he has won numerous prestigious awards in Slovenia. The exhibition jointly prepared by Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (CBA) and UGM | Maribor Art Gallery presents the major works of the past fifteen years which have been combined by the author into a new spatial entity. Oto Rimele’s individual works always consist of two parts: the first is a material one – a construction carrying the image, while the second part is non-material and is created as its shadow, glow and a coloured reflection. The core of the artist’s exploration, which is supported by precise theory, is a relationship between these so very different starting points. In this research the author uses different forms, types of material and positioning of the art object as well as the possibilities offered by reflections. The spatial installation designed by Oto Rimele especially for the Juane Mordó exhibition space »speaks« of the role of light and shadows. There are many levels of comprehension, ranging from reflection on the essence of a painterly medium and its potential development in the present time to the fundamental ontological issues regarding the creation of the world which is divided into the light and the shadow. Apart from this symbolically powerful premise it is important to observe that the viewer is directly invited by Oto Rimele to primarily experience his works. As is the case with all his installations, the concept of The Light of Shadow exhibition is completely minimalist. In the ambience where at the first glance there is nothing apart from sheer emptiness, whiteness, transparency and reddish reflections, the hidden is gradually revealed. Contrary to our expectations we find for instance that a shadow can be more powerful than its material medium. And this is just the beginning. Isn’t a shadow actually light? What is its origin? Why does it carry such strong red traces? A new magical world that will fascinate the viewer with the installation concept is one of the rare contemporary works of art that require us to pause and reflect. In the process of surprise the audience willing to surrender to curiosity and then to contemplation will be rewarded with a rich poetic experience and a new individual revelation. Oto Rimele (1962) is a Slovenian painter who lives and works in Maribor, Slovenia. He is a full professor of painting and drawing at the University of Maribor. He also works in graphic and stage design. He has received a number of awards, the most prominent being those awarded for original spatial installations – one of them was the project located in the former monastery church in Kostanjevica na Krki (Galerija Božidar Jakac) in 2003 – and the highest professional recognition in culture in Slovenia, the Prešeren Fund award, 2004. He has held over 45 independent exhibitions and has participated in over a hundred group exhibitions. He was also a member and a co-founder of the rock group Lačni Franz and a member of Laibach. An excellent monograph on the work of Oto Rimele Spirituality of Material Absence by Jure Mikuž was published by Galerija Žula in 2012. YOU ARE KINDLY INVITED! Coorganisers:   Project partner:   The project has been financially supported by:    | ||
OTO RIMELE »Image and Shadow«, 2013
OTO RIMELE »DIPTIH IN MUHA«, 2013
platno, les, steklo, barva, pesek, muha
35 x 45 x 35 cm
DIPTIH IN MUHA
V preteklosti slikarji niso razstavljali svojih slikarskih del v naravi sami. Bilo je prenevarno izpostaviti slikarsko delo spremembam, ki jih prinaša naravno okolje. Kljub temu, da so nekoč nekateri ustvarjalci delali pod milim nebom (en plain air) in da je bil njihov motiv krajina, bi bilo za ustvarjalca postaviti olje na platnu ali akvarel neposredno v naravno okolje pravzaprav neodgovorno početje, saj so slikarski materiali in z njimi povezana tehnološka narava slikarskega medija v omenjenem smislu v pogojih naravnega prostora obsojeni na propad. Tudi danes je tako.
Zato je bil izziv, kako pripraviti takšno slikarsko podobo, ki bo v idejnem, konceptualnem smislu lahko sobivala v naravnem prostoru pod milim nebom. Izziv v idejnem in tehničnem smislu. Kako torej ohraniti slikarsko podobo in povezati obe naravi v celovitost, kjer se neposredno prekrivata intenca ustvarjalca in intenca narave. Pod milim nebom namreč ustvarjalec ni edini kreator podobe in ne gre brez interakcije z okoljem in bitji, ki jim je narava primarno okolje. Nedvomno je potrebno upoštevati intenco drugega: Narave.
Nastalo je stekleno prizorišče, namenjeno temu, da sprejme dve platni. Vrhnji del je namenjen pogledu gledalca, spodnji del pa gledalcu nudi bolj neposredno komunikacijo z barvo in sporočilom slike. Tako se relacija dveh platen udejanja v diptihu, ki je postavljen v nenavadno lego »zgoraj – spodaj« oziroma »proti nebu – proti zemlji«. In če je lice zgornje podobe vidno in obrnjeno h gledalcu, kdo je tisti, ki bo videl navzdol, k zemlji obrnjeno podobo?
Spodnje platno je nosilec barve. Njeno »barvno lice« reflektira obarvano svetlobo najprej v območje tal. Od tam naprej pa se preko refleksije narave na ogled postavlja tudi človeku. In ta podoba se bo spreminjala – ne samo po legi Sonca in Lune, ki bosta spreminjala dajanje svetlobe, temveč bodo tam tudi drugi: Vlaga in Mravlje, Mraz in druge Žuželke in vsi skupaj bodo neposredno stopali v območje podobe in oblikovali njeno materialno substanco. In tam nekje na začetku tega procesa je tudi plastična Muha, ki jo je izdelal človek.
Oto Rimele 12. september 2013
DIPTYCHON UND FLIEGE
In der Vergangenheit stellten die Maler ihre Werke nicht in der Natur an sich aus. Es war zu gefährlich, die künstlerischen Werke den Veränderungen, welche die natürliche Umwelt mit sich bringt, auszusetzen. Obwohl einige Künstler einst unter freiem Himmel arbeiteten ( en plain air ), und eine Landschaft als Motiv wählten, wäre es von dem Schöpfer unverantwortlich gewesen, Öl auf Leinwand oder ein Aquarell direkt der natürlichen Umwelt auszusetzen, denn das von den Malern verwendete Material und die mit diesen verbundene technologische Natur der malerischen Medien sind in dem erwähnten Sinne unter den Bedingungen des natürlichen Raums zum Verfall verurteilt. Und das ist auch noch heute so.
Somit bestand die Herausforderung darin, wie eine solche bildliche Darstellung, die in ideeller und konzeptioneller Hinsicht in einer natürlichen Umgebung unter freiem Himmel koexistieren könnte, vorbereitet werden sollte. Eine Aufgabe in ideologischem und technischem Sinn. Wie also das künstlerische Bild erhalten und diese beiden Naturen in einer Ganzheit verbinden, wo sich Zweck und Sinn des Schöpfers mit der Intention der Natur direkt überdecken. Unter freiem Himmel ist der Künstler nicht der einzige Schöpfer des Bildes und es geht nicht ohne Interaktion mit der Umwelt und den Wesen, für welche die Natur die primäre Umwelt ist. Zweifelsfrei muss die Intention des anderen berücksichtigt werden: die der Natur.
Die gläserne Szene ist dazu bestimmt, zwei Leinwände anzunehmen. Der obere Teil ist so konzipiert, um den Betrachter zu respektieren und der untere Teil bietet dem Betrachter eine direkte Kommunikation mit der Farbe und bietet Zugriff auf die Botschaft des Bildes. Somit wird die Beziehung der beiden Gemälde im Diptychon, das in eine ungewöhnliche Position gesetzt ist, realisiert “oben – unten” beziehungsweise ” gen Himmel – zur Erde”. Und wenn die Oberfläche des oberen Bildes sichtbar und dem Betrachter zugewandt ist, wer ist dann derjenige, der nach unten blickt, das zur Erde gewandte Bild?
Die untere Leinwand ist Träger der Farben. Ihr “farbiges Gesicht” spiegelt das farbige Licht zuerst im Bodenbereich wieder. Von da an stellt sich über die Reflexionen der Natur auch der Mensch zur Schau. Und das Bild wird sich ändern – nicht nur nach dem Stand der Sonne und des Mondes, die die Darreichung des Lichts verändern, es gibt auch andere: Feuchtigkeit und Ameisen, Kälte und andere Insekten, und alle gemeinsam treten direkt in einen Bereich des Bildes und schaffen seine materielle Substanz. Und irgendwo, am Anfang dieses Prozesses, dort ist die künstliche Fliege, von Menschen gemacht.
Oto Rimele 12. September 2013