Vita Bilder Ausstellungen Presse Kontakt Bernard Fölls "Dance In Reality" Fölls pictures create a magical allure to the viewer. At first glance, they are aesthetical compositions, with the technical illustrations that are similar to the style of a comic book or an advertisement. The colours are mostly broken and vague which may be displeasing to the eye. The different picture elements are informally composed and though they are unpleasant. they are far from trying to impress the viewer will with attractions. Everything stays within the borders. It is exciting when one concentrates on the pictures and begins to see more and more the cheerful looseness that lies within the layers. There are connotations and relationships, quotes and ironies that subtly slumber and await discovery by the viewer. Vilém Flusser wrote in his 1983 essay "For a philosophy of photography", "Concerning pictures: While a wandering look of an image can grasp one element after another, he produces a relationship between them. He can return to an element that has already been examined and the "before" becomes the "after". At the same time, however, the view produces a meaningful relationship between the elements.Then originates the complex meaning in which one element borrows from the other and by doing so, achieves its own meaning... The pictures own space-time is not unlike the world of magic." In this sense, Fölls pictures are magical works. For over twenty years Föll has been creating a work which one can still call undiscovered.Spotlights and effects are foreigh to him, just like the bigger gestures and his pictures are well wirth seeing. In the middle of the eighties he started follewing an internal impulse and began producing collages depicting and dealing with political and social subjects. While the world around him discovered the new wildness and ferocity of the eighties, Föll discovered his ownquite unique painting style. Fölls tools already express the baseness of his standpoint, the use of self-made stencils and the laborious colour order though spots: Patient reflection, playful creating and well thought-out statement. His pictures wait for the viewer because they want to the read. They reflect the consumer society, media society and information society without bering the viewer by flat interpretations. Instead they let different figures, circumstances and rooms as they might appear in a theatre so that one is effectively inclined to think of a dance of sorts. These pictures are "worth seeing" in the most true sense of the phrase. (Uwe Lauterkorn) Kunstmesse/Art Fair Alte Kindl-Brauerei/Neukölln vom 23.09.-27.09.2009 /12.00-22.00 Uhr In den Arbeiten von Bernard Föll überlagern sich Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Vision, paaren sich Piktogramme, Zitate aus Comics, Werbung und Medien mit Bildern unseres kollektiven Gedächtnisses. Föll bedient sich hierbei Fragmenten seines unerschöpflichen Archivs. Seine Arbeitsweise aus Acrylmalerei überarbeitet mit Stupf- und Stenciltechnik unterstreicht dabei die Vielschichtigkeit seiner Werke: hintergründige Gemälde verschwimmen zum Teil diffus zu Gunsten klarer, figurativer Elemente, Flugobjekte und Architekturen, die seine Werke räumlich und kompositorisch strukturieren. In seinem jüngsten Zyklus treten zudem autobiografische Elemente und Situationen weiter in den Vordergrund. Der 1954 in Stuttgart geborenen Künstler lebt und arbeitet seit 1974 in Berlin. Nach intensiver Auseinandersetzung im Bereich Performance und Film (Super-8), widmet er sich seit 1988 zunehmend zweidimensionaler Arbeiten auf Papier und Leinwand. Nach zahlreichen internationalen Ausstellungen und Beteiligungen bei M.A.I.S. nimmt Bernard Föll 2009 erstmalig an Berlin Art Tower teil. In the artworks of Bernard Föll the past, present and vision seem to overlap; pictographs, quotations from comic, advertising and media are melting with images from our collective memory. Föll is using fragments out of his inexhaustible archive. His working technique using Acrylic painting overworked with stencil and spotting underlines the multi-layers of his work: back grounded paintings becoming diffuse for the benefit of clear, figurative Elements, flying objects or architectures, which structure them compositorically. In his current works autobiographical elements are more and more occurring. Föll, born 1954 in Stuttgart, lives and works since 1974 in Berlin. After intensive exposure in performance and film (super-8) he is working two dimensionally on paper and canvas since 1988. After numerous international exhibitions and participation on M.A.I.S. he takes part on Berlin Art Tower 2009 for the first time. Kunstmesse/Art Fair Alte Kindl-Brauerei/Neukölln Werbellinstr. 50,12053 Berlin