Gallery Martin Kudlek
Schaafenstraße 25
50676 Cologne
Germany
Brussels Exhibition Space
Avenue Van Volxem 333
1190 Forest – Brussels
Belgium
Presentation of the gallery
Martin Kudlek Gallery represents international contemporary artists from Europe and the US. The gallery program features the diversity within the classical genres of painting, sculpture and drawing, although the focus lies on objects and paper works. Art pieces which are characterized by their formal rigor and reduction on the one hand and those that embrace figurative styles that are charged narratively and symbolically on the other hand, build the cornerstones of the gallery program.
Through regular participations at art fairs Martin Kudlek Gallery holds a broad international network within the art market. With numerous artist cooperations and exhibition projects the gallery also offers an open experimental field for contemporary art production.
Présentation de l'artiste en focus
Simon Schubert was born in 1976 in Cologne, Germany.
The artist skilfully plays with style-defining features of architecture and spatial language, which he condenses into an artificial genre. Although Simon Schubert sometimes lines entire rooms with paper, in which sculptural, mysterious feather creatures indulge in supposedly cultic actions and faceless children lose themselves in enigmatic games, the parallel world, which in its surreality is reminiscent of cinematic scenes by David Lynch, remains only partially accessible. Spellbound, the visitor enters the fascinating architecture, which, however, always sets new barriers for him on the way inside, as with each additional viewing further paths open up visually, but remain physically closed. Bit by bit, the artist lures the recipient into a world that at a certain point begins to retreat from space into the surface, until the path can finally be completed as a mental act of individual imagination.