Rainer Fest

About

THE END OF THIS DECADE BELONGS TO THE SCULPTURE !Here you will find unusual position of art from the North-east part of Germany,that is inspired by a strong landscape, alchemy and a philosopy that deals with the unity.Each artwork is a step towards this unity.In this short presentation it is not possible to show all diffrent aspects of my work, like wood, landart, installation, works with and on paper, books, and so on so I choosed the aspect that gives a first impression of my stoneworks.To see more, I invite you to pay a visit to my webside. Rainer Festwww.fest-art.comA key element off many of his works is running water. As a flowing prime element and symbol of life, water runs over a throne sculpture or washes around a house, thereby questioning and jeopardising ist firm stand. The water adds elements of movement and light to the sculpture. With water continuously working and permanently changing the stone, another paradigm enters the work and working method. The static nature of the stones is disturbed by movement i.e. time passing by in a perceivable manner -, while light reflected by the water changes their surfaces, and thus the way the sculpture is seen. Also, the water gives back sound to the otherwise mute stone.Stone, water, light, sound and archaic architectural forms are the basis of Rainer Fests sculptural work. In his works, nature and culture merge into a unity which does not deny, however, the far-reaching differences between both areas. The artist stands in the circle his work has described.He is the centre of his world. Edmond Jabes comment on physical objects is true both of him and his works:Everything is connected to everything. Each thing has ist counterpart. Man the faith of man; war the feast, the dance of the insect the unmoving stone. The rule of the play is the rule of the universe. (2)Feter FunkenRainer Fest The hard is overcomeA stone like the tableau of a mountain with a small hut in the middle of a watercourse. This may be an apt description of one of Rainer Fests fountains, or rather water sculptures, if merely viewed on a scale-distorting photograph. When facing the object itself, the view becomes more abstract: a roughly chiselled, light matte stone surface with shining, smooth and polished one-piece elements, whose one side seems to be negative, a hole, while the other side appears as a positive, three-dimensional element, with both sides being linked by the water springing forth from the stone and slowly running over the surface. Positive negative; matte shining; hard soft, solid liquid; static flowing and moved; light dark: these are the contrasts the work is composed of. Architecture, landscape, and philosophical concepts come to mind more readily than thinking of traditional sculpture. However, we are still dealing with traditional sculpture, even though it possesses a special gift for lending metaphysical profoundness to the materials employed. Rather than being attracted and affected by the house-like shape of the positive negative object, the river-like form of the watercourse, or the mountainous appearance of the stone, viewers will be touched by perceiving the elemental nature of the flowing water, the process of coming into being and passing away, the perennial recurrence of things never alike. For all their three-dimensional presence, these plain crystalline objects reflect a particular meditative substance. Made from basalt columns or stones by using the natural fractures produced by water veins and lime deposits, these sculptures keep the originality of the material and ist formation.The contrast of natural stone, or erratic boulders, to mechanical processing or strict artistic arrangement creates tension in space, i.e. in real space as well as in ist abstract dimension. For instance, the spiral arrangement of Berlin granite pavement slabs, which set up in a circle and starting from an upright position gradually get closer to the ground at precisely defined angles, prompts a variety of associations ranging from Stonehenge, cosmic spiral nebulae and water eddies to alpha and omega, creation and passing, death and life.Rainer Fest never deals with mere aesthetics, his work is aimed at philosophical concepts which almost effortlessly communicate to attentive viewers. Water plays a crucial role in this context. Even to Thales, a predecessor of Sokrates, the element of water already seemed to be of special significance so that he called it the primary material of which the world is composed. In the world of today, natural science has long since defeated that theory. Nonetheless, water has kept ist mystical attributes, as is proven by the great number of powerful myths still associated with it. While Fests fountain sculptures give expression to a soothing everything flows, they also show the disturbing effects created by the eternal non-likeness of that flowing, by ist inherent chaos. And finally, a moral component can also be found. In The coming into being of the book Tao Te King; on Lao Tses way into emigration Bert Brecht has the boy who leads Lao Tses ox to the customs collector comment on his masters philosophy:The soft water always defeats the hard stone, you understand: the hard is overcome.Ursula Prinz … Read More

Location: Berlin, Rothenklempenow, Germany
Website: http://www.fest-art.com

Education

Rainer Fest 1953 geboren in Berlin1975 - 81 Kunstgewerbeschule Jurva, Finnland1982 - 87 Studium der Bildhauerei bei Prof. Altenstein an der Hochschule fr Kunst und Musik, Bremen1981 - 88 Stipendiat des ev. Studienwerkes Villigst1986 - 88 Auslandsstudium an der Academia des Bellas Artes, Madrid1993 Arbeitsstipendium der Kultursenates von Berlinseit 91 lebt und arbeitet in Glashtte, Vorpommern2002 Otto Niemeyer Holstein - Stipendium2004 Landesstipendium des Landes Mecklenburg Vorpommern fr das Schleswig Holstein Haus, Rostock Einzelausstellungen ( Auswahl )1987Kirche auf dem Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin1988St. Jakobikirche, Berlin1990Galerie Stil und Bruch, Berlin1991Eisenhalle, Berlin Galerie IX, Berlin Galeria Indice, Torre la Vega, Spanien Casa de Cultura,Basauri, Spanien1992Galeria Vanguardia, Bilbao,Spanien Casa de Cultura, Eivar, Spanien1993Galerie Gleditsch 45 , Berlin Galerie Schoen und Nalepa, Berlin1994Kutscherhaus, Sammlung Stober, Berlin1995Sankt Petri-Kapelle, Brandenburg Galerie de Beerenburght, Eck en Wiel, Niederlande1997Kunstverein, Kunsthalle Khlungsborn, Khlungsborn, Katalog2000Galerie Obrist, Essen Studiogalerie,Warschau, Polen Katalog,2001Galerie de Beerenburght, Eck en Wiel, NiederlandeKunstquartier, Essen, Galerie Obrist2002 Skulpturenpark Katzow Galerie Bttner und Partner, Berlin Galerie Diederik Storms, Bellingwolde, Nll Neue Galerie im Historischen U , Pasewalk2005 Wollhalle, Gstrow Galerie der Hansestadt Rostock Galerie Purpur, Bad Doberan Kunstverein Wismar, Galerie hinter dem Rathaus Galerie Kunstbro BerlinGruppenausstellungen ( Auswahl )1986Gesellschaft fr Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen1988Groe Mnchner Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Mnchen,Katalog1989Dominikanerkirche, OsnabrckGalerie el Patio, BremenGalerie Nalepa, BerlinPalacio de Sastago, Zaragossa, Spanien, KazalogCastillo de CalatoraoSpanien Calatorao, 1990Centro de Disegno y Volumen, Madrid,Spanien KatalogStuki Wspolczesney, BWA, Olstyn, Polen Katalog1991Galerie Alpirsbach, AlpirsbachGalerie Nalepa, BerlinKunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin Katalog1992Centrum Stuki, Poznan, Polen, KatalogWaterwerkNiederlndischer Bildhauerverband,Schlo Groeneveld,Baarn,Niederlande KatalogStadtgalerie Eberswalde1993Stadtgalerie AngermndeGalerie de BeerenburghtEck en Wiel, Niederlande1994Klosterruine Berlin-Mitte, Berlin KatalogWater op Bovigne, Breda, Niiederlande, Katalog1995Partitur, Skulpturenpark Katzow, KatzowGehag - Forum, Berlin Katalog1996Beeldenroute Alphen,,Alphen an den Rijn, Niiiederlande1997Galerie de Beerenburght, Eck en Wiel, NiederlandeKleinplastik in Norddeutschland, Galerie Kolbien,GarbsenGalerie Nanki de Vreeze, Amsterdam, NiederlandeNational Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Griechenland, Katalog1998Deutsch - Chinesische Gesellschaft, Prismahaus, Berlin, Katalog1999Galerie de BeerenburghtEck en Wiel, NiederlandeCenter of Polish Skulpture, Oronsko, Polen KatalogGalerie G`,Essen Pinakothek, Larissa, Griechenland, Katalog2000 Galerie Mitte, Kunstamt Mitte,Berlin Willi Brandt - Haus, Berlin2001 11. Landesweite Kunstschau, Mecklenburg - Vorpommern, Schlopark Puttbus, Katalog2002 Groe Mnchner Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Mnchen, Katalog Landesgartenschau Ostfildern Nordart, Schleswig - Holstein Kulturscheune, Skulpturenpark KatzowKonstgrafiska Verkstad, Boras, Schweden Skulpturenpark Motzen, Galerie Bttner und Partner, BerlinBonhoga Gallery, Shetland Islands, Die Reise des Steins`Landesweite Kunstschau Fotografische Kunst Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Katalog2003 Bokartes,Buchkunst, VilniusNordArt, Schleswig HolsteinSkulpturenpark Motzen, Galerie Bttner und Partner, BerlinKunsthalle Rostock, Landesweite Kunstschau Mecklenburg Vorpommern, KatalogSkulpturengarten Srth, Gallerie Helga Neef, Kln 2004 Landesweite Kunstschau, Schleswig - Holsteinhaus, Schwerin, Vom Handwerk zum Kunstwerk`, Katalog Nordart, Bdelsdorf Interart Skulpturenpark, Heeswijk, Nl Skulpturengarten Srth, Galerie, Helga Neef, KlnSkulpturenpark Motzen, Galerie Bttner und Partner Galerie Obrist, Essen Faszination Wasser ` Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg, 2005 Messe Art KarlsruheNeues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop , Knstlerbcher III, KatalogSkulpturenpark De Boog, Westernieland, NLTeilnahme an Bildhauer- und Knstlersymposien1984Bildhauersymposium, Rapolano, Italien1986Knstlersymposium, Javea, Spanien, Organisation1989Knstlersymposium im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin1990Bildhauersymposium, Calatorao, SpanienBildhauersymposium, Steinsberg, Limburg a. d. Lahn1991Knstlersymposion, Projekt Visum, Poznan, Polen1992Knstlersymposion Spotkanie i Tworzenie, Poznan, PolenII. Steinbildhauersymposion Altknkendorf1993Stadtraumzeichen, Knstlersymposion, Lutherstadt WittenbergIII. Steinbildhauersymposion Altknkendorf1995Symposion im Skulpturenpark Katzow, Katzow1997Traces and Perspectives, Kulturhauptstadt, Thessaloniki, GriechenlandNeue Kunst in alten Kirchen, Knstlersymposion, Gro Kiesow1998Camps Magnetiques, KunstNaturLandschaft, Gehren1999I. Ziegelsymposion im Elbtal, BleckedeRoszerzanie Przetrzeni, Center of Polish Art, Oronsko, Polen2001Internationales Steinbildhauersymposion, Cerisy la Foret, Frankreich2002Artist at Work, Knstler arbeiten mit Beton, Ostfildern Pleinair im Otto Niemeier - Holstein Haus, Usedom2004 Knstlersymposion Bdelsdorf Bildhauersymposium Wandern Landschaft - Stein in Gielow, Malchin 2005Bildhauersymposium im japanischen Hain, Schloss Mitsuko ,TodendorfWerke im ffentlichen RaumBerlin TempelhofBerlin KreuzbergBerlin Dahlem, Konrad Zuse - InstitutLutherstadt WittenbergGhren, Insel RgenBerlin MitteStadt BleckedeGorssel, NiederlandeBergum, NiederlandeCommunaute de Communes de L Elle, Frankreich Bischof Otto von Bamberg Gedchtnisbrunnen, Gtzkow Liepen, Kreis Demmin Center for new polish sculpture, Oronsko, Polen Mahnmal fr die Zwangsarbeiter der christlichen Kirchen Berlins, Berlin Neukln , … Read More