We are very glad to announce that taguchi fine art will have the first one person show by Christiane Löhr during above period.

Born in Wiesbaden in Germany in 1965, Christiane Löhr now resides in Cologne, Germany and Prato, Italy. After studying Egyptology, Archeology and History at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-University, Bonn and Art Education and German studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, she got Meisterschülerin from Jannis Kounellis at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf in 1996. She has held many exhibitions all around the world as at the Villa and Collection Panza in Varese in 2010. Her works are housed in many museums and prominent private collections.

Christiane Löhrs examination of form and space is achieved by material that is uncommon to the history of sculpture. She creates her sculptures with natural materials as plant seeds, plant stems, horse hairs and dog hairs. Cushion with the fluff of dandelion, temple with the pile of ivy seeds, dome with grass stalks, bag of hairnet filled with thistle seeds, cat’s cradle like form with needles and horse hairs, and so on. They are physically so small and look so delicate that we could miss them at first. Once we come close and observe them, however, they would be transformed into very strong construction dominating the surrounding space and we might be overwhelmed by the power of them.

Due to the uniqueness of her materials for the sculptures, one might think that her concern lies in plants and animals, which is not correct. The prettiness and the beauty that originally belong to the organic form and the color of plants are of course elements of her works but that is not the essential to her works. The reason why Christiane Löhr decided to choose plants and animal hairs is that she is accustomed to them since her childhood and therefore knows their characters very well. In addition, she got a conviction to do this from her experience of the study with Jannis Kounellis, who is the center of an Italian art movement, “Arte Povera” that is characterized by the use of familiar things we can see in our daily life but unusual to sculpture as its material.

The research by Christiane Löhr to come to a form is nothing less than to carefully and patiently examine the structure and function that the material itself has inherently, and then to reconstruct them so as to visually amplify those structures and functions. Through the conversation with the material and its surrounding space, she explores the mathematical law, the power, the order, the structure behind this visible world that establish nature and organic matters.

The same is true for Christiane Löhr’s works on paper, her pencil drawings and oil pastels, that present a high grade of abstraction. Through them, she is trying to seek the invisible inner power and order behind the nature, behind the world, what give the unity to this world, make this world together.

This is Christiane Löhr’s second one person show in Japan since her show at Gallery A4 in 2007. On this occasion, her sculptures and drawings with pencil, oil pastel and ink will be on view.

From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the first day, Saturday, February 23rd, taguchi fine art will have a reception of artist.

From 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 1st, Gallery A4 will hold an artist talk by Christiane Löhr http://www.a-quad.jp/exhibition/event.html

We are very much looking forward to your visit.