Nature and art

Wunderkunst, in collaboration with Galerie Wolfgang Jahn in Munich, is presenting works by six up-and-coming artists under the title “Wild Worlds. Nature and Movement in Art” works by six up-and-coming artists. Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias, Lena Keller, Eduardo Palomares, Aline Schwoerer, Kim Sujin and Ruscha Voormann take the audience on a journey to discover the fascinating beauty, diversity and dynamics of nature.

The artworks depict metaphors, allegories, symbols and associations, thus reflecting the ambivalence of the topic. The young artists use a wide variety of media: painting, sculpture, video and sound. In this way, they create playful, serious and multifaceted images of nature that are intended to show viewers the beauty of nature and their connection to it. The audience is invited on a journey to Terra Incognita – undiscovered country – to discover places where anything is possible. Viewers can explore imaginative, mysterious, attractive and perhaps also, for some, terrifying landscapes. All six artists have developed their own artistic approaches to invite viewers to develop their own thoughts and feelings about these wild worlds. The dynamics and beauty of nature are also intended to serve as inspiration for the audience, creating new perspectives on nature.

Chilean artist Constanza Camilla Kramer Garfias creates textile works of art that are fed by her roots, among other things. She describes herself as a weaver, even though many of the jacquards she produces are made using industrial machines. However, she emphasizes that this is not possible without a good knowledge of weaving techniques. At Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, the artist, who lives and works in Munich, is presenting her new series of works entitled “Drift”, derived from drifting by car. The series of works was created in collaboration with the Swabian Driftfoxes drift racing team from Ravensburg. The artist has succeeded in capturing the essence of drift racing and the adrenaline rush associated with it. Her works of art imitate the swirling smoke and tire tracks of drifting cars. Some viewers may also be reminded of landscapes that drift past them. With her “Drift” series, Kramer Grafias succeeds in combining a traditional technique – Jacquard production has its roots in 15th century Italy – with the modern themes of car racing and automobiles. This is quite surprising for the viewer, as this art technique is associated with more traditional themes. The artist designs and creates the textiles and works together with Tessitura Taborelli. For her textile artworks, she deconstructed the surface of the fabric after receiving it. In doing so, she creates wavy edges and free-hanging fringes and adds metallic accents. In this way, she succeeds in capturing fleeting moments.
Aline Schwörer from Berlin invites viewers into a completely different world. Like an alchemist, she collects organic materials and puts them in epoxy resin. She also imitates organic objects, such as mushrooms, which then appear to grow out of the wall. In her works, she questions the interplay between people, the environment and time. In doing so, she develops hypothetical future scenarios and the fragility of nature and its environment becomes clear to the viewer.

Lena Keller, a master student of Karin Kneffel at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 2021 to 2022, uses drawing and printmaking in her works alongside painting. The artist, who lives and works near Munich, primarily works intensively with the medium of painting and develops positions based on the classic genre of landscape painting in which she explores our relationship to nature today. Central elements are longing and alienation, which she depicts by means of representational depictions and digital influences, which she mixes together. Sujin Kim, on the other hand, develops organically vibrating meshes of painting on her canvases. She brings them to the canvas in vibrating colors.
Ruscha Voormann studies in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Gregor Hildebrandt. Her works are usually large-format and abstract. In her work “Swipe UP V”, she combines acrylic and acrylic glass on canvas to create sweeping and gliding structures. The colors are applied to the canvas using a sheet of acrylic glass. Movement is an important motif in her art.
In the basement of the Wolfgang Jahn Gallery, visitors are greeted by a completely different world. Even on the stairs, you can smell a balsamic fragrance reminiscent of the sea, salt and pine trees. Bathed in bluish light, the room, designed by Eduardo Palomares, invites you on a journey of discovery in the footsteps of the fictitious plant “Vernantibus Oceanum”. The artist, who lives and works in Munich, presents his works there, which he creates from ceramics and porcelain coated with crystallized salt. Videos showing underwater worlds are projected onto a screen.

The exhibition “Wild Worlds. Nature and Movement in Art”, which can be admired from June 25 to August 3 at the Wolfgang Jahn Gallery in Munich in collaboration with Wunderkunst, demonstrates the connection between art and nature. It shows how movement and wildness can be expressed in creative processes.