DIETER CORNELS / DC VEERO
11-10-2018
(Solo exhibition called "Funkenschlag" / June 2017 in the "Museo della città di Rovinj - Rovigno".)
Dieter Cornels / DC Veero was born on
July 7, 1938 in Berlin and died in Baden-Baden, on June 15, 2016.
During the 1960s, he studied sculpture under the mentorship of Manit
Ozere, and frequently visited Picasso in Cannes. From the 1970s
onwards, he collaborated with Otmar Alt, Joseph Beuys, Robert Filliou,
Alfonso Hüppi, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Jörg Immendorff, and many
more.
Critics have
compared DC Veero’s art to that of Beuys, Richter, and Kandinsky in
terms of value. On the occasion of presenting an award to DC Veero in
2008, Kurt Liebenstein, former mayor of Baden-Baden, stated the
following: “DC Veero is one of the most significant German artists; the
value of his works is equivalent to those of Joseph Beuys and Gerhard
Richter. On the same occasion, the renowned professor Dr. Eike Gebhardt
also praised the potential of artistic expression and art of DC Veero in
the context of his significance for contemporary art.
FROM THE PRESS :
Kurt Liebenstein, former mayor of Baden-Baden, stated the following: “DC Veero is one of the most significant German artists; the value of his works is equivalent to those of Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter.
(Baden Baden News) ...
In Veero’s paintings, identities disintegrate almost without exception, as well as concrete associations to any location; they turn into something else that is frequently indefinable at first, they mostly grow into a new figure i.e. figural fragment, occasionally sans any change of colour, and sometimes they vanish in the strictly defined amorphousness while hesitantly remaining latent. And then, halfway, one does discover a mouth, it seems as if there is a chest and glasses underneath the vortex – and a mouth, a cubistically perspectived nose right next to it, but on the other surface; and, in lieu of an eye, a ship or a tub indicating a face… Faces and eyes, always and everywhere – if this presumption is correct, not only ought we learn to see, but we ought to also be made visible; not only ought we behold things, but things ought to also behold us.
(Dario Sosich)
Kurt Liebenstein, former mayor of Baden-Baden, stated the following: “DC Veero is one of the most significant German artists; the value of his works is equivalent to those of Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter.
(Baden Baden News) ...
In Veero’s paintings, identities disintegrate almost without exception, as well as concrete associations to any location; they turn into something else that is frequently indefinable at first, they mostly grow into a new figure i.e. figural fragment, occasionally sans any change of colour, and sometimes they vanish in the strictly defined amorphousness while hesitantly remaining latent. And then, halfway, one does discover a mouth, it seems as if there is a chest and glasses underneath the vortex – and a mouth, a cubistically perspectived nose right next to it, but on the other surface; and, in lieu of an eye, a ship or a tub indicating a face… Faces and eyes, always and everywhere – if this presumption is correct, not only ought we learn to see, but we ought to also be made visible; not only ought we behold things, but things ought to also behold us.
(Dario Sosich)
EXHIBITIONS / SMALL SELECTION :
2017. 1'st solo exhibition after his death, “Funkenschlag” - in the Heritage Museum Rovinj-Rovigno
2008. Kunstpreis Baden-Baden 2008 mit Ausstellung im Alten Dampfbad
2005. Galerie Suzanne Fischer, Baden-Baden
2003. Schloß Gondelsheim e. V., Kunstverein Faites votre jeu
2002. Galerie Mainz, Berlin
2000. Maison Charme, Zweibrücken
1999. Artexpo 99, New York
1986. Atelier Kleinhoscheid, Luxemburg
1968. Galerie Korchin, Rom, New York
1966. Malerei von heute, Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
2008. Kunstpreis Baden-Baden 2008 mit Ausstellung im Alten Dampfbad
2005. Galerie Suzanne Fischer, Baden-Baden
2003. Schloß Gondelsheim e. V., Kunstverein Faites votre jeu
2002. Galerie Mainz, Berlin
2000. Maison Charme, Zweibrücken
1999. Artexpo 99, New York
1986. Atelier Kleinhoscheid, Luxemburg
1968. Galerie Korchin, Rom, New York
1966. Malerei von heute, Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
( Price range: 70 000 - 220 000 $ )
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