Holger Kalberg, stadiem, 2008, print. Courtesy of the Artist
Exhibitions
Holger Kalberg: stadiem
Contemporary Feature Gallery
21 February - 10 May
The dozen new works in this exhibition feature fractured panels of translucent colour arranged in honeycomb lattices and angular clusters, all seemingly caught in the process of assembling themselves in atmospheric space. Vancouver painter Holger Kalberg has broken with his history of rendering dreamlike fusions of landscape and architectural forms in favour of achingly tenuous, crystalline abstraction. Moody, acidic pastels, teasing visual logic and Kalberg’s bravura control of surface and form combine to produce pure visual pleasure. At the same time, the paintings in Holger Kalberg: stadiem have a haunting currency as sly metaphors for selfreplicating technologies, the flawed precision of incomplete engineers’ drawings, or the nested tensions of a financial system unravelling.
The reception for Holger Kalberg: Stadiem will be held Wednesday 25 February, 7 to 9 pm. On Thursday 26 February, Holger Kalberg will offer a walk-through tour of the exhibition as part of the lunch-hour Art Matters program.
Born in Germany, Kalberg studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver (BFA, 2001) and the Chelsea School of Art, London, UK (MFA, 2007). His work was featured in the exhibition Paint at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2006.
Jan Allen