Guest: Felix Lehner,Art Yan
Date: 2014-08-17 14:00 ~ 2014-08-17 16:00
Address: Chronus Art Center(Bldg.18, No.50 Moganshan Rd. Shanghai)
SPERKER: Felix Lehner
MODERATOR: Art Yan
LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)
reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation)
ABOUT LECTURE
The making of an artwork is a process that is not always easy to plan. It demands continuous reviewing, testing and adapting of each and every step. Again and again, both the artist, the technician and the craftsman are confronted with complex questions that can only be solved through precise study and experimentation with unconventional use of material and technique.
Scale and materiality of objects and textures will lead in the best case to a shift in the viewer's perception. In this talk, Felix Lehner, the founder of Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen will talk about the spectrum from craft to the use of high tech machinery in order to create some of the most intriguing artworks by international artists that are created in Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen and Shanghai.
ABOUT SPEAKER
Felix Lehner is the founder of the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen since 1983, of the gallery Felix Lehner that represents Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn since 2004, of the foundation Sitterwerk, that contains an art library, a material archive, guest studios and the Kesselhaus Josephsohn since 2006. Closely located to each other, these individual centers create a network that allows artists and cultural institutions to research and to create their works. Besides, Felix is also member of the advisory board for a research and restoration project on the subject of plaster sculptures by Alberto Giacometti (project duration 2010 – 2014) With a continuous growth, the foundry counts currently 50 employees. Besides of restoration jobs, the Kunstgiesserei is overseeing the works of national and international artists at all stages – from the first consultation to the finished works. Besides of casting metal, the materialities used range from wax, plaster, mud, mineral matters, plastic and polyurethane.
ABOUT MODERATOR
Art Yan, media arts curator and producer. He is now Executive Director of Chronus Art Center, since December 2013.
ABOUT Kunstgiesserei
The Kunstgiesserei, a large foundry for the realizing artworks, has existed since 1983. National and international artists come to the Sittertal to work on the realization of their ideas. The Kunstgiesserei accompanies the works in all the stages of their creation, from the first consulting to the finished work.The craft of casting has a six-thousand-year history.The work of art casting continues to be accompanied by research and experimentation until today. Since most of the works produced are usually individual custom-made pieces, each work presents new challenges. In addition to casting, they are increasingly working on mechanical and digital solutions, which they execute using the most modern technologies.
