exhibitions
2022 – coming together
Dirk Rathke – coming together 29. April – 4. Juni 2022Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 28. April, 19 – 21.30 Uhr Sonderöffnungszeiten Gallery Weekend: Sonntag, 1. Mai, 13 – 16 Uhr CSR – Contemporary Showroom mit Werken von Dirk Rathke*(29.4. – 14.5.2022) 3d-Tour...
2019 – Curves
2017 – Malerei & Faltung
Dirk Rathke – Malerei und Faltung Mit der neuen Ausstellung von Dirk Rathke bringe ich zum ersten Mal gleich drei Werkgruppen zusammen: Eine Deckenzeichnung, seine Malereien und die Faltungen.Dirk Rathke war gerade in Houston, um in einer Privatwohnung eine...
2014 – Encounter
Dialog by Invitation – Dirk Rathke : Rainer SplittCurved Canvases, Paper Pools und Farbguß 21.3. – 26.4.2014 Den Auftakt einer losen Ausstellungsreihe unter dem Titel Dialog by Invitation macht Dirk Rathke, Galeriekünstler von Semjon Contemporary, mit dem von ihm...
2013/ 2014 – Trialog
Trialog: Colin Ardley, Dittmar Krüger und Dirk RathkeAusstellung vom 13.12.2013 – 18.1.2014 Prolog: Noch vor wenigen Tagen hätte niemand garantieren können, dass eine solch dia-logische Ausstellung von drei Künstlern in einem relativ kleinen Ausstellungsraum...
2013 – Königsberger Brücken
Form & colour – colour & form
Dirk Rathke’s pictorial objects have been familiar for over 20 years, often featuring in numerous solo and group exhibitions and at art fairs in Germany and America. Once you have seen them, they stick in your memory, with colour and form unfolding simultaneously and even interdependently. It is not the ‘mere’ rectangle serving as the ground for the application of paint, but through the sculpturally defined relief of the stretcher frame and the cotton or burlap canvas skilfully stretched over it, colour and form merge. The edges, free of paint, emphasise the character of the painted picture, while at the same time stressing the form, which alternately allows partially concave or convex forms to grow into the space, drawing the picture sculpturally into the room or nestling it back against the wall. Where does the picture begin? And where does it end? What was there first, the colour or the form?
Rathke follows the same principle in the more recent group of works entitled Faltungen, except that the volume has a different physicality. Folded at different angles and in different directions, the sheets of metal of varying sizes are deflected into space to different degrees and are capable of creating dynamically staggered spatial planes. When the viewer changes his position, the monochrome work finished with car paint takes on a new character and yet remains the same. As with his painting, his work grows into the space and then recedes again – living and breathing.