re:frame
Under the ‘label’ re:frame, artists' estates will be presented at various gallery stands at the fair that have a model character.
The programme will also be accompanied by a talk programme at the fair.
In dialogue with the market, we have established how great the need is to talk about estates and about artists who have left behind a work and to see what questions arise and what best-practice examples could look like.
Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896-1971) is one of the most important and original artists of the German avant-garde of the 20th century. Fascinated by music and art, she decided to study art at the “Großherzoglich Sächsische Hochschule für Bildende Künste” as early as 1915.
Together with her husband Robert Michel, she cultivated a close friendship with Kurt Schwitters and was also enrolled for a semester at the Bauhaus in Weimar. As early as the 1920s, she took part in numerous exhibitions in Germany and the USA with her works.
Like most well-known German artists of the time, Ella Bergmann also worked with graphics, typography, photography and film. Like her husband Robert Michel, Ella Bergmann-Michel developed her own personal style in a very short space of time and her art moved in the areas of Dada, Constructivism and Purism. Due to the birth of her son, greater financial security and certainly also because the Bauhaus was too formal for her, she left Weimar after a short time and set up her own studio with her husband near Frankfurt in the Taunus. Here she had the freedom to develop her ideas and follow her own path in art, photography and filmmaking.
SIGHT Gallery actively represents the estate of the important artist Johannes Geccelli, whose work is an outstanding example of color field painting. Geccelli's works are among the central positions of German color field painting and show a pronounced sensitivity for the interplay of surface, time and color.
Geccelli, influenced by the Italian avant-garde and artists such as Alberto Giacometti, devoted himself to the dissolution of the human figure in color space. His works embody a unique synthesis of spirituality and color, in which the human presence is often only hinted at by subtle color shadows or vertical lines.
The close collaboration between the estate administration and the art historian and gallery owner of SIGHT Galerie, Sabine Krempel, is designed for the long term. Through exhibitions and publications, the gallery contributes to promoting public awareness of the artist and preserving the significance of his work.
By working closely with the Geccelli estate, SIGHT Gallery is making a significant contribution to establishing the work of this influential post-war artist on the art market and in the public eye and to building on his successful exhibitions. Works by Johannes Geccelli have been represented in numerous galleries and museums both in Germany and internationally, including a solo exhibition entitled “Color Light and Shadow” at the Berlinische Galerie in 2006. Many of his works can be found in public collections such as the Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, the Neue Nationalgalerie and the collection of the German Bundestag.
As a representative of the “Helsinki School”, PERTTI KEKARAINEN (1965 - 2021) impressively explored levels of space and light in his photographic works.
The focus was on questions of seeing, perception and time. His reflections were always based on painterly aspects of abstract or concrete art.
You can find further examples of his work here.