since 2015 | installation (series of more than 130 drawings on paper in different sizes) | 
pencil, colored pencil, some with watercolors and acrylic on paper 

Since 2015, I have been working on the series of drawings called
The Memorial for the Unknown Iceberg. For this series, I mainly use my inner images of icebergs, without having ever seen one myself to this point. Out of the drawing process, I try to approach the colors and forms associated with ice. I try, I erase and I develop structures anew. In some drawings, I just rub over the subsurface; in others, a simple, regular hatching creates associations of icebergs. The range of color is reduced further and the icebergs become white abstract shapes. The white of the paper remains unworked as a negative form. The qualities of white differ with the chosen paper. Or the icebergs are swallowed by the black hatches surrounding them. Some drawings are completely black.

Memorial for the Unknown Iceberg


galerie mitte, Am Paulskloster, 28203 Bremen
March 15 - May 25th 2014
opening Friday March 14, 8 pm
Begrüßung: Ele Hermel
Worte zur Kunst Dr. Simon Frisch, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Finissage: Saturday, May 24th 2014, 8 –11 pm

solo show/ Ralf Tekaat • Kulisse

Flügel

Massif 1

A series of pencil drawings showing huge, scenery-like mountain landscapes. Some of the drawings are in one others in severeal pieces (most of them in nine, but they could also be continued). The final size is about 310 to 220 cm. These are no real landscapes, they have no model. They are something in between real rocks and build scenery. The drawing itself arises out of the process of drawing. Layer over layer of hatching build up a structure which is reminiscent of rocks and mountains. But in some points it just became abstract form and structure.


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