BODY LANGUAGE
Claudio Ahlers
Zsolt Dudas
Nina Roberts
2nd April - Mid May 2016
Hardy House Gallery
High Street, Box, Wiltshire SN13 8NF
We are thrilled to announce the first in our series of collaborations with Hardy House Gallery in Box. This stunning contemporary exhibition space created by artist/owner Nina Roberts is located a short distance from Bath and the M4 in the Cotswolds village of Box, home to Brunel's famous railway tunnels and Peter Gabriel's Real World Recording Studios.
BODY LANGUAGE brings together the work of three artists who explore the human form through different media. German born and Bristol based fine art photographer, Claudio Ahlers, explores the emotional landscape of women and men as it reveals itself through the naked figure. Hungarian Zsolt Dudas uses drawing and sculpture to support his painting and builds complex layers of different elements in his new work. There is an emotional connection with the past that Nina Roberts brings to her paintings, inviting the viewer to look at subjects that are not always easy to read.
Claudio Ahlers has made a short film of the exhibition and opening night. He also composed the music. Please click here to view it.
BODY LANGUAGE brings together the work of three artists who explore the human form through different media. German born and Bristol based fine art photographer, Claudio Ahlers, explores the emotional landscape of women and men as it reveals itself through the naked figure. Hungarian Zsolt Dudas uses drawing and sculpture to support his painting and builds complex layers of different elements in his new work. There is an emotional connection with the past that Nina Roberts brings to her paintings, inviting the viewer to look at subjects that are not always easy to read.
Claudio Ahlers has made a short film of the exhibition and opening night. He also composed the music. Please click here to view it.
CLAUDIO AHLERS
"Photography in many ways appears to be the least ambiguous of the arts. Much of its credibility as a practice is underpinned by the assumption that its representations are all the more true and meaningful, the more they have been selected with intent, the more precisely they have then been distilled from reality, organised with clarity and compositional coherence and finally presented to us in their purest, least ambiguous and thus most meaningful form..."
Bodies & Souls” is a series of photographs created by German fine art photographer Claudio Ahlers, in his Bristol studio in late summer 2015. By diffusing identity, form and place, these otherwise condensed and pure (naked) bodies escape a conventional photographic reading. Their disguised presence invites the viewer to explore rather than identify their states of mind, to feel rather than witness their physical condition and to intuitively compare their own lived experience with that of the fellow humans depicted in the images.
Read more about the artist here.
Please click here to see full list of works and prices
www.stills-in-time.co.uk
"Photography in many ways appears to be the least ambiguous of the arts. Much of its credibility as a practice is underpinned by the assumption that its representations are all the more true and meaningful, the more they have been selected with intent, the more precisely they have then been distilled from reality, organised with clarity and compositional coherence and finally presented to us in their purest, least ambiguous and thus most meaningful form..."
Bodies & Souls” is a series of photographs created by German fine art photographer Claudio Ahlers, in his Bristol studio in late summer 2015. By diffusing identity, form and place, these otherwise condensed and pure (naked) bodies escape a conventional photographic reading. Their disguised presence invites the viewer to explore rather than identify their states of mind, to feel rather than witness their physical condition and to intuitively compare their own lived experience with that of the fellow humans depicted in the images.
Read more about the artist here.
Please click here to see full list of works and prices
www.stills-in-time.co.uk
ZSOLT DUDAS
"Drawing and painting are tools in my hands. Tools to measure, perceive and ultimately understand what we are.
The context and method of my work is a ‘palimpsest’: a complex, multi-layered collection of different elements, definitions, memories - influenced by the experience of identity, history, culture, language and analogy. It is a carefully planned act of destruction of an already existing ‘materia’, followed by the gesture of creating the record or library of elements. It is controlled but on the other hand there is the element of chance as the destructed layer might make an appearance against the violent will of destruction.
Palimpsest is an existentialist struggle desiring to deny temporality. Its nature originates in violence.
There is beauty in violence. A thought, an idea may bear the mark of beauty, but the interpretation of them might deliver destruction".
Zsolt was born and educated in Hungary. He came to London in 2007 to study English. In 2009 he moved to Bath and began studying at the Bath School of Art and Design in 2011 where he is now completing his Masters Degree in Fine Art.
Please click here to see full price list and read more about the artist here
"Drawing and painting are tools in my hands. Tools to measure, perceive and ultimately understand what we are.
The context and method of my work is a ‘palimpsest’: a complex, multi-layered collection of different elements, definitions, memories - influenced by the experience of identity, history, culture, language and analogy. It is a carefully planned act of destruction of an already existing ‘materia’, followed by the gesture of creating the record or library of elements. It is controlled but on the other hand there is the element of chance as the destructed layer might make an appearance against the violent will of destruction.
Palimpsest is an existentialist struggle desiring to deny temporality. Its nature originates in violence.
There is beauty in violence. A thought, an idea may bear the mark of beauty, but the interpretation of them might deliver destruction".
Zsolt was born and educated in Hungary. He came to London in 2007 to study English. In 2009 he moved to Bath and began studying at the Bath School of Art and Design in 2011 where he is now completing his Masters Degree in Fine Art.
Please click here to see full price list and read more about the artist here
NINA ROBERTS
"There is an emotional connection with my past that I bring to my work – I might read an article or see a photograph in the newspaper.
I let my subconscious take over and go with the mood. I love the challenge of standing in front of a blank canvas and mixing colours."
Nina Roberts’ paintings are powerful and beautifully executed. With a strong sense of design and the use of limited colour, she invites the viewer to look at subjects that are not always easy to read.
Roberts was born in Worcestershire in the UK but was brought up in West Africa. She studied book illustration and design at Twickenham College and worked for publishing houses in London before becoming a freelance designer.
In the 1970s she moved to Wiltshire where she concentrated on her painting and printmaking in her studio.
She has exhibited in London and the West of England in group and solo shows including at the Printmakers Council, Clerkenwell and the Mall Galleries, London.
She moved to Box in 2013, choosing to renovate and remodel Hardy House to incorporate an art and exhibition space on the ground floor of her home.
Read more about the artist here
Please click here to see full price list
"There is an emotional connection with my past that I bring to my work – I might read an article or see a photograph in the newspaper.
I let my subconscious take over and go with the mood. I love the challenge of standing in front of a blank canvas and mixing colours."
Nina Roberts’ paintings are powerful and beautifully executed. With a strong sense of design and the use of limited colour, she invites the viewer to look at subjects that are not always easy to read.
Roberts was born in Worcestershire in the UK but was brought up in West Africa. She studied book illustration and design at Twickenham College and worked for publishing houses in London before becoming a freelance designer.
In the 1970s she moved to Wiltshire where she concentrated on her painting and printmaking in her studio.
She has exhibited in London and the West of England in group and solo shows including at the Printmakers Council, Clerkenwell and the Mall Galleries, London.
She moved to Box in 2013, choosing to renovate and remodel Hardy House to incorporate an art and exhibition space on the ground floor of her home.
Read more about the artist here
Please click here to see full price list
