Mimikry ‒ Vera Kox, Melanie Loureiro, Stefan Sehler, Günter Weseler
-„In nature, mimicry refers to a form of imitation of visual, auditory or olfactory signals that leads to the imitator and forger gaining advantages by deceiving the signal receiver“.
The works of the four artistic positions by Vera Kox, Melanie Loureiro, Günter Weseler and Stefan Sehler also address this biological evolutionary principle of deception in art with various strategies.
With his kinetic breathing objects made of animal furs, which he calls „New Species“, Günter Weseler creates an animated world parallel to nature.
Abstract, expressive, Stefan Sehler paints his monochrome pictures behind glass and it is due to his special technique that these abstract pictures create a flawless depth that immediately makes the viewer think of photographs of lunar surfaces.
Vera Kox‘s ceramic works seem to fundamentally contradict their mineral material character. Soft, in form and surface more reminiscent of flowing fabrics than of solidified ceramics, their textile surfaces deceive the groping gaze.
In her paintings, Melanie Loureiro focuses closely on the biological concept of mimicry as a dynamic principle that is responsible for nature‘s infinite wealth of variations in the course of evolution. What reads in Melanie Loureiro‘s large-format canvases as an almost infinite range of forms and colours in the plant and animal world turns out to be an essential principle of survival in nature itself, beyond all aesthetic implications.
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Installation View 'Mimikry', COSAR, 2023
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MELANIE LOUREIRO
Halfway Through The Chrysalis The Wings are still Sticky
2022/ 2023
200 x 160 cm
Oil on linen -
GÜNTER WESELER
Baumstamm Überwucherung (trunk overgrowth)
1973
Rabbit furs, electromechanical control, driftwood
200 x 45 x 35 cm -
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VERA KOX
soft as a rock (blue)
2022
ceramic with underglaze
Ø 67 cm, 5 cm (d) -
STEFAN SEHLER
left:
untitled (moon), 191 x 137 cm
Mixed technique behind acrylic glass, 2015
right:
untitled (moon), 183 x 183 cm
Mixed technique behind acrylic glass, 2015 -
STEFAN SEHLER
untitled (moon)
2015
191 x 137 cm
Mixed technique behind acrylic glass