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Albert Leo Peil, La Diva de cinematique Marlene Dietrich, 1990, 32 x 24 cm,
ink on paper
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Delmes & Zander is delighted to praticipate at the FIAC Online Viewing Rooms 2021, with works by Albert Leo Peil, George Widener and Alexandru Chira. The Viewing Rooms are taking place online from March 4th-7th.
About Albert Leo Peil
Only
recently Delmes & Zander received the comprehensive oeuvre of
Albert Leo Peil, which has not been exhibited or published before.
Peil’s drawings are reminiscent of medieval works with religious
themes, at the same time they are covering topics such as space,
eroticism or fashion always in his very own, unique style.
Peil was
born in 1946 in Berlin. He moved to Nuremberg where he studied two
semesters at the Art Academy in the end of the 60s. Albert Leo Peil
passed away in 2019.
About George Widener
George
Widener was born in 1962 in Covington, Kentucky. In his early years,
he developed a passion for mathematical computation and all manner of
statistics and data, especially calendars. It was his obsessive habit
to translate every number that he encountered into a calendar date.
Some years later, George Widener, seen as a savant with an
extraordinary aptitude for numbers, was diagnosed with the Asperger
Syndrome. Later, Widener began to intentionally transform his
fascination with numbers to which a collection of calendars,
punctilious lists and drawings attest, into artistic works containing
complex calendars, palindromes, historical landscapes, and
translations of eastern calligraphic scrolls. Since 2000, he has
focused particularly on large-format, highly complex drawings in
which various aspects of cartography, mathematics, and numerology can
be found.
George
Widener has been shown solo at at the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin,
2013) and in groupshows at the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, 2010),
the Hayward Gallery (London, 2013), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2015)
and the Kunsthal Rotterdam (2016).
About Alexandru Chira
Alexandru Chira was born in 1947
in Tauseni, Romania. When his home village Tauseni suffered of
yearlong drought during the 1990s Chira started to elaborate a
sophisticated land-and-weather improving art equipment, a series of
symbolic installations of painted metal, wire and concrete for the
invocation of the rain and rainbow. The ensemble 'De-signs towards
the sky for the rain and the rainbow' (1994 – 2004) is located on a
hill in the middle of the village – a village surrounded by other
hills – and is divided into 18 sub-ensembles. Most of his works,
either those on canvas or the drawings and objects are inspiring
sketches or derivative works related to the monument.
Chira was awarded the PhD in
Visual Arts in 2006 for the work ‘On the Project and Utopia in Art
– Self-Poetic Approach' and became professor of the Painting
Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Bucharest National
University of Arts in 2009. Alexandru Chira passed away in 2011.
Chira's works have been presented
in the context of various exhibitions, including Lisbon Architecture
Triennale, Palácio Sinel de Cordes, Lisbon; The Sao Paolo Biennial
Art Exhibition, Sao Paolo; The Visual Arts Museum, Galaţi; and The
National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, which
presented a Retrospective of the artist in 2015. Since the end of
2017 Delmes & Zander exclusively represent the work of Alexandru
Chira.
