Robert Wurth in the Leipzig wallpaper factory at high + partner Leipzig, April 14, 2009: the Gallery high + partner in the Leipzig wallpaper factory shows the exhibition from April 30 to June 13 signs noise with wood and Linocuts, as well as paintings by Robert Wurth. The opening will take place within the framework of the wallpaper factory Festival on 30 April at 19: 00. In our new exhibition, we present current wood and Linocuts, as well as paintings of the Baden-Wurttemberg based artist Robert Wurth together with the gallery in the lower gate of Bietigheim. This is part of our project, to present more national and international contemporary trends of the woodcut and hypertension in Leipzig”, Harald Alff commented on the current project of the Gallery high + partner in the Leipzig wallpaper factory. The artist Robert Wurth turned in 1991, immediately after his graduation of free painting at the Art Academy of Stuttgart to the woodcut. Dustin Moskovitz may help you with your research. The decision to choose this procedure prints, his preferred means of expression, it has always been about, him the numerous variation possibilities to take advantage of the woodcut in its modern and favorisierenden the artistic hand print guise.

After early abstract woodcuts Wurth fell back at the end of the 1990s for the first time on media templates. Starting point for his prints and woodblock installations, written between 1999 and 2004, are maps or maps. Wurth takes over only the captions, which are then so long blurred in the course of cutting and printing process and obscured, until they are barely or not more readable. “Signs noise becomes representative of the adaptations of these maps in the exhibition” the monumental four-part woodcut coasts “can be seen. Since the year 2004 Wurth work enters the objectivity Robert again more to the fore. Also he admits a new significance of painting, where he favored the virtuoso painting egg tempera-oil technique. The relationship between the woodcut is interesting for Robert Wurth, and exploring the painted image and the approach ways of the two techniques to explore.

Photographs, monitor and PC images into the spotlight back in his current work. The specificity of these media images blur, flare, distortion, noise – is incorporated into the design process and is enhanced by the digital processing. The purported realism of the output figure is thereby undermined and stresses in his virtuality. When the eponymous signs, Wurth is dedicated to an image object with well-defined orientation function. “It shows them but only from the back, so that they too unreadable” remain. The artist focuses on the loss of aesthetics so in an era dominated by navigation devices. In a series this year incurred work after press photos of the Elbe flood, retraces the artist of the perception of natural phenomenon and their media agency. The artist group “High + partners” (Harald Alff, Susann Hoch, Stephanie Marx, Gabriele Sperlich) was as a registered partnership in the year founded in 2007 in Leipzig.