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Jan Voss
Exhibition @ Gallery ART FORUM UTE BARTH: May 31 -June 28, 2008
Born 1936 in Hamburg, Germany
Jan Vos is born 1936 in Hamburg, Germany. From 1956 to 1960 he attended the Art Academy in Munich.
In 1966/67, he´s a guest teacher at the Art Academy in Hamburg.
A few years later is Voss´ paintings were shown in “Kunsthalle”, Kiel and he was exhibited in a solo show at Art Cologne.
1987-1992 he was teaching at “École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts” in Paris
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The common theme in his painting is really “the organized”, but also find itself at the complex situations chaos of constant movement.
Voss experiments with diverse techniques and materials. There are both paintings with powerful intense colours and paintings with a more calm and telling effects which remembrances drawings. Opposite of this is the paper-relief – collages made of watercoloured fragments of papers torn to pieces. Whether it´s on canvas, wood and paper relief or watercolour, the common feature is the buildup of different colour and form elements who interact, cuts through each other and combines together through lines, sign and fragments of signs. Voss uses this form language first-time on the two-dimensional painting, later – in the 80´ties- also used on the three-dimensional artwork. Hereafter can everything “picture-making” be used: crumble, fold, tear, sawing, nailing and gluing, - Voss seeks the constant change. Despite new picturesque materials, he is still not to be confused with anybody else.
The artist Jan Voss, who have lived and worked in Paris since 1960, is considered one of the contemporary time most outstanding artistic personalities and his artwork is exhibited in leading galleries and represented in permanent collections at museums all over the world.
Galerie Birch, Copenhagen has exhibited Jan Voss in solo shows 1965, 1969, 1970, 1976 and 1981 and numerous group shows.
Art Forum Ute Barth and Galerie Birch have a solo show in Zurich in 2008
Selected exhibitions
The Biennale in Paris
Musée d´art Moderne, Paris
Seibu, Tokyo
Lefebre Gallery, New York
Nippon Gallery, Tokyo
Documenta IV, Cassel
Musée des beaux-arts, Lille
Tübingen, Berlin
Galleria Nazionale d´Arte Moderna, Rome
Galerie Maeght, Barcelone
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