Exercises of Emptiness ─ Lars Koepsel Solo Exhibition part of the “VT 3 year venture project with Apartment der Kunst in Munich”: This year as well as continuing our Asia exchanges is also the first collaboration of VT Artsalon, Taipei and Apartment der Kunst, Munich in a new 3 year project. Every year this project will be split into 3 parts: first is the curated exhibition, second, Taiwan artist residency in Germany, and third, solo or group exhibition for a German artist, send over to VT by Apartment der Kunst.
This venture project is a 3 year long term project, each year consist of 3 programs. First, a curated exhibition by Taiwanese curator in Germany, during May 2014 was the joint exhibition titled “It looks sound but…” curated by Sean CS Hu featuring artist Wu Tsan Cheng and Chen Po-I, the two artist each uses sound and photography to describe the special environment of Taiwan. Second, during June 2014 was the residency and solo exhibition of Taiwan artist Su Hui-Yu who will spent one month in Germany for this exchange. And now it is the third stage, on the 30th August will be the solo exhibition of German artist Lars Koepsel in VT Artsalon.
German artist Lars Koepsel, having previously studied philosophy in Munich, currently based in Munich has always maintained close connections with Taiwan, because of family relations Lars visits Taiwan annually, under the influence of Taiwanese cultures, Lars always consider himself in spirit a combination and mixture of Taiwanese and German cultural, this interesting mixture of culture has created a profound impact on his understanding and expression of art.
The art works of Lars Koepsel often originates from the most essences of the objects, featuring the reality of Western philosophy, but also contains the charms of traditional Eastern aesthetics. In 1999 in Daan Forest Park of Taipei, environmental public art project "lai", uses trees as the main subject to raised the important relation of natural and cultural, through being close to the forest, awakening the close and mutual relationship between man and nature.
This time Lars Koepsel’s solo exhibition in VT Artsalon titled “Exercises of Emptiness” Koepsel will be demonstrating his exploration of Chinese and Western cultures and the practice of mediums, the transformation of text, images, paintings, video and other media text into unique visually interesting works, using rotation and copying juxtaposing words and symbols to reflect on the study of the meaning of words by the artist. – The work with this symbols is all together one book called “have or be“ therefore Lars uses currency , capitalistic, spiritual or religious symbols. Audience can also experience interaction with the work - "mural" which invite viewers to scrape off the banner with tools and collecting the debris , in the process further understand the relationship between the text and the context, Video works - "Zen" is a series of eleven video works made between 2000-2001 played as a looped video, with images, through "slow" and "fast" approach presents fragments of life, and inadvertently reminding people of moments in life.
Lars Koepsel’s integrates his studies on the cultural, philosophical, creative thoughts into the various types of media, providing viewers’ visual, tactile and auditory senses a space for aesthetic contemplation, VT Artsalon cordially invite you to visit Exercises of Emptiness ─ Lars Koepsel Solo Exhibition.
