Foreign Affairs

Elke Daemmrich & Jens Küster
Exhibition: Foreign Affairs

Elke Daemmrich:

Elke Daemmrich lives and works between the south of France and Dresden. Her art emerges in the interplay between the worlds: her painting in the heat of southern France and her graphic work during the winter months in the Dresden studio, in collaboration with the Grafikwerkstatt Dresden. She created her first etchings and engravings in 1997 in collaboration with the Goya Museum Castres, France for her exhibition “Los toros” dedicated to Francisco de Goya and bullfighting. In 2014 she received an Individual Support Grant from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc. New York. In 2017 she received the Unesco Prize in Monaco for her graphic series “Syria war”. Elke Daemmrich is membre sociétaire of the FONDATION TAYLOR – Paris and the A.I.A.P.-Comité National Monégasque auprés de l’Unesco, under the honorary presidency of S.A.S. Le Prince Albert II, Monaco. Since 1988 she has realized ninety solo exhibitions throughout Europe and 150 exhibitions worldwide.

Jens Küster:

Jens was born in Dresden and studies of metal sculptures and graphics/painting/ exam degree, Academy of Fine Art and Design Halle Burg Giebichenstein. Since 1994  he studies of North-Indian rhythmic, School of Music Berlin-Neuköln, extended study visit in North India.

Auditive rhythmic structures can be a very impressive interpretation of mental state of the people who create them. Due to the enormous sound variety of Northern Indian rhythm instruments, especially the Tabla, it is possible for the practicing musician to express himself largely. Owing to my own practice, I am getting an increasingly deeper insight into the basic principles of these expressional forms and I am trying to incorporate parts of that into my picture world. Interesting about that is for me the fact that auditive rhythm proceeding a certain time can be understood in one picture at the same time. And so there are and there could be various possibilities to perceive rhythm in the picture. With this perception I make structure pictures which I am currently calling “Inner rhythmic structures”.

Image: Richard Wagner by Elke Daemmrich