GOLD 2024

Jorg Karg

Mixed techniques
18 ⨯ 6 ⨯ 3 cm
€ 2.400

GrachtenGalerie

• About the artwork
  The object itself has the original size of a 12,5 kg gold bar, which is a bank standard. The surface of the bar is not just flat, it has dents and scratches like an original gold bar has. This was something very important to me, because every gold bar has it’s own history which is marked by these dents and scratches. To create this original appearance was incredibly complicated and I’m really super happy to have this kind of result today. Additionally I created a packing for this as I really want to give these objects the very best guidance and protection. During the last year I created a lot of photographic material for my photo collage work and I focused on the subjects of transparency and visibility. In that period I came a lot of times to the fact that “True value is always invisible.” – Jorg Karg
• About the artist

  Jorg Karg is a German Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1982 His vision: The intention behind my digital collages is that the beholder feels addressed immediately, without any further explanation. Therefore I use present-day visual language and techniques to combine it with long established, fundamental ideas of painting and drawing.Our subjective perception is shaped by so many instant influences these days. Modern media affects us immensely, but so does almost forgotten ideas about shapes, colors and expressions of past days. Everything builds on one another and is subconsciously present all the time. All that has to be taken into account to move the viewer and create an unexpected personal experience. If you like, an expansion of the field of collage.My own person is irrelevant in that context, what is underlined by the use of a pseudonym.“

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