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Christoph Dahlhausen [DE]
Placing Colours and Light
PUCCS Contemporary Art
2024, 11 15-12 12
Opening event: 2024, Nov 14, 6-7.30pm
Light, colour and space are the guiding principles of Christoph Dahlhausen’s work. Light in particular, both natural and artificial, as well as the interaction of light with reflective and translucent materials, have long been the focus of the artist’s interest. For his expansive light installations - work group 'Stabilizing Light' - he uses special blue fluorescent light tubes, whose blue appears light and fleeting, and at the same time - similar to Gothic art - refers to the spiritual, which is integrated into the art. He uses this special synthetic-looking blue also because it has almost no correspondence to nature and is therefore largely free of context.
The scaffolding-light installations pretend to be a functional structure, but are mainly aesthetically concerned with space, rhythm, light and colour. The rhythm of the glow sticks contrasts with the rhythm of the scaffolding. Although the installations are three-dimensionally oriented and perceptible in space, the artist is less interested in the sculptural aspect than in the graphic and painterly. He is also interested in questions about the deconstruction of space and the interaction of material, including light, with the surrounding space. For about 2 years now, he has been combining the scaffolding light installations with transparent acrylic glass surfaces that reinforce the painterly aspect. These works have the title 'Placing Colours and Light'.
For the art space PUCCS in Budapest, Christoph Dahlhausen designed an installation from the work series 'Placing Colours and Light' that captures and colours the relatively small space. Since the space can be seen very well from the outside through its shop windows, the combination of light rods, scaffolding poles as linear elements and the flat coloured acrylic glasses also show a sensual and space-defining play of colour and light from the street.
Christoph Dahlhausen (1960) visual artist, curator and author living and working in Born, Trier and Melbourne, Australia. Since 1989, his works have been extensively exhibited worldwide in museums, art foundations and galleries, including Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Ludwig Koblenz; Museum am Ostwall Dortmund; Weserburg Museum Bremen; Kunstmuseum Ahlen; Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen; UMAG, Hong Kong; Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul; Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand,; National Gallery of Victoria and the Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia.
He was granted and awarded numerous scholarships and prizes, including the Art Prize of the City of Bonn, Ramboux Prize of the City of Trier, and he was finalist of the 1st International Light Art Award in 2014.
As a curator, he works worldwide in the field of non-objective art. Recently, in cooperation with RMIT University in Melbourne, he managed to establish Artothek, Australia's first art library by donating a large part of his private art book collection.
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Puccs Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Supported by Józsefváros Municipality
[photo © Christoph Dahlhausen and VG Bild Kunst, Bonn]