Gravura Brasileira

Luz — Decay and ransformation (Decadência e Transformação)
2011–2013
gravuras de Florian Foerster (Alemanha)
11 de junho a 03 de agosto de 2013.
Ano Alemanha + Brasil
esta exposição integra a programação oficial da temporada “Alemanha + Brasil 2013-2014”.

www.florianfoerster.com

Luz — Decadência e Transformação
Estas 15 gravuras de uma série de 22 foram feitas com a mesma placa de cobre entre 2012 e 2013. A série versa sobre impressões e memórias do Jardim da Luz em São Paulo ao revisitar a mesma matriz de impressão, uma ação similar as sucessivas visitas feitas ao Parque que me levaram a mergulhar com mais profundidade em sua atmosfera.
A placa de 25x25cm foi repetidamente gravada no ácido e um mínimo de 3 provas foram impressas em cada estágio. Cada gravação destruiu o estágio anterior da placa. Enquanto a densidade e as camadas da impressão aumentavam, a densidade da placa diminuia até a completa desintegração da matriz. A distancia entre a primeira e a última imagem ilustra a resposta da matriz de cobre a mais de 80 horas de exposição aos efeitos how to tell a fake daytona rolex corrosivos dos banhos de ácido. As gravuras também mostram como a imagem inicial se dilui e ,ao mesmo tempo, se transforma em formas inteiramente novas.
Luz- Decadência e Transformação é parte de um grupo maior de trabalhos em andamento – desenhos, gravuras, escritos e pinturas – investigando e re-imaginando o Jardim da Luz. Eu comecei esta série pouco após a minha primeira visita ao Jardim da Luz em 1996.
Florian Foerster



http://florianfoerster.com/


FLORIAN FOERSTER
CV

Solo Exhibitions
2010 Staged, Salon Su de CouCou, Berlin
2010 Sao Paulo, inside – outside – in between, Gravura Brasileira, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2010 Inside Santa Maria, Lettretage, Berlin
2009 Maria Valeria Drawings, Galerie SüdostEuropa, Berlin
2009 Bocas do Lixo, Das Labor, Berlin
2007 Nacht und Nebel, Neukoelln, Berlin
2006 Deceptions and Crossings Municipal Museum Sturovo, Slowakei.
2004 Recent Works, Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester
2004 The miraculous Mandarin Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin. Part of the Berliner
Philharmoniker Concert of Bartoks music, conducted by Pierre Boulez
2000 Recent Works, Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester
1997 Galerie Zunge, Berlin
1996 Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
1995 Liverpool School of Architecture
1994 Goethe Institute, Manchester
1993 Skelmersdale Arts Centre

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Light my Fire, Salon Su de CouCou, Berlin
2012 Grafik im Dialog, Brasilianische Botschaft, Berlin
2012 Les Saltimbanques, Musee d`Art Roger Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2012 Conversa Grafica, Museu Florestal, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2012 Sommerausstellung, Wendy Levy Gallery, Manchester
2011 Get together, KuiperDomingos, Berlin
2011 La Cabane, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2011 Caixa Umburana, Estampa 2011, Sao Paulo
2011 SaoPauloxBerlinxOxacaxcCairi, Gravura Brasileira, Sao Paulo
2011 Dialogos, Museu Florestal, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2011 Frames of References of Frames,jointly with Lara Loutrel, Godine Art Gallery, Boston, USA
2011 International Graphics Bienale, Santos, Brasil
2010 Art Tower Berlin, International Art Fair
2009 Visuman and Friends, Das Labor , Berlin
2009 Here, there and everywhere, jointly with Lara Loutrel, Boston
2008 Nacht und Nebel, jointly with Lara Loutrel, Berlin
2007 Nacht und Nebel, jointly with Kate Price, Berlin
2006 Annual Exhibition, Schillerpalais, Berlin
2005 Newton Street Studio, Manchester,
2003 Newton Street Studio, Manchester,
1999 Manchester Academy, Prizewinner
1998 Manchester Academy, Prizewinner
1996 Manchester Academy
1995 Ainscough Gallery, Liverpool
1995 Manchester Academy, Prizewinner
1994 Hotbed Press in Liverpool and Manchester
1994 Licence to print 6 young printmakers in England, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal

Residencies
2006 June to October. Bridgeguard Residency in Sturovo, Slovakia
1992 – 2009 Since 1992 four four month long visits to Sao Paulo to paint and draw. Printmaking
residency at the Museu Lasar Segall
Workshops with the Berlin Philharmonikers Education Department
2007 Two week workshop to St. Saints Musik Karnival der Tiere with primary
school children. Concept and workshop leader.
2006 Open Day - Workshop for 3 to 10 year old children to Ravels music, Mother Goose.
Concept and workshop leader
2004 The miraculous Mandarin by Bela Bartok. Workshop leader for a one week
workshop with secondary school children.
2004 Le Jeux by Debussy. Workshop leader for a two week workshop with secondary
school children.

Education
1994 – 97 Structural Engineering with Architecture Degree at the University of Manchester.
1990 – 93 Fine Art Printmaking, Manchester Metropolitan University and John Moores
University, Liverpool.
1989 Manchester Polytechnic, Foundation Course in Art and Design

FLORIAN FOERSTER studied printmaking at Manchester Metropolitan University and structural
engineering at Manchester University, United Kingdom. Among his solo shows are exhibitions at the
Goethe Institut (Manchester), Tib Lane Gallery (Manchester), Berliner Philharmonie (Berlin), Saloon
Su De CouCou (Berlin), and Gravura Brasileira (Sao Paulo). He was the sixth bridgeguard at the
Bridgeguard Residency in Sturovo, Slovakia, and has worked extensively in Sao Paulo, including at the
print workshop at the Museu Lasar Segall.
Foerster has won several awards at Manchester Academy exhibitions, and his work is held in private
collections in Brazil, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In addition to his career as an artist, he works
as a structural engineer for buildings and bridges.