The City of Regensburg and Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister warmly invite you and your friends to the opening of GUTE GEGEND – Nico Sawatzki on Friday, April 17th at the Municipal Gallery at the Leerer Beutel in Regensburg.
Opening remarks
Wolfgang Dersch, Head of Cultural Affairs at the City of Regensburg
Dr. Caroline Ebeling, Director, Municipal Gallery at the Leerer Beutel
Introduction
Dr. Isabelle Lesmeister, art historian and gallery owner
Drinks
The ByrdCave Regensburg
Music
Phil Kamp
For the exhibition GUTE GEGEND at the Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel, Nico Sawatzki has developed a new body of work. All the pieces were created specifically for this exhibition. Sawatzki’s painting moves between abstraction, landscape, and memory. Through layered overlays of spray paint and acrylic, atmospheric pictorial spaces emerge that evoke horizons, weather, or distant landscapes.
For the first time, the artist has provided his paintings with coordinates that allow for a concrete localization of the works in and around Regensburg, Germany. These are places where memories were formed or that are associated with specific emotions. This offers a very personal insight into the Regensburg-based artist’s upbringing in this city. The titles of these new works describe the stories Sawatzki associates with the locations. The result is a series of images that bridge the gap between cartography and atmosphere. Sawatzki’s works do not depict places, but rather their emotional resonances – and thus create a personal topography of memory, perception, and landscape.
Artist talk and catalog presentation
Thursday, May 7 at 7 p.m.
Free admission
Art Apero and guided tour with Nico Sawatzki
Thursday, June 11 at 7 p.m.
More information coming soon!
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