MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART
Spring 2025
Galerie Kovacek & Zetter
March 10th to April 19th, 2025
Stallburggasse 2, 1010 Wien, Tel.: +43/1/5128636
EBERHARD ROSS & BABAK SAED
Galerie Kovacek & Zetter
March 14th to April 8th, 2025
Plankengasse 5, 1010 Wien, Tel.: +43/1/4230110
EBERHARD ROSS & BABAK SAED
March 14th to April 8th, 2025
Galerie Kovacek & Zetter Plankengasse is presenting the extensive double exhibition by Babak Saed and Eberhard Ross. For the first time in Austria, the two German artists are presenting their current works and offering a unique insight into their artistic creations.
Eberhard Ross, born in Germany, fascinates with his meditative color light painting. Abstract color shapes radiate and glow in nuanced, refined simplicity and convey expansive, all-encompassing calmness. His works glow from within, have an almost sacred character and refer to a spiritual level in their titles. They seem to store and release energy; they glow like dramatic sunsets and are able to transform a room with their incredible presence. The amazing thing about Eberhard Ross' work is that he approaches the subject of light and color from different angles. Sometimes he starts from musical or scriptural aspects, sometimes from biological or transcendental perspectives - he questions painting as a medium and creates works of impressive coherence.
Babak Saed, born in Iran and emigrated to Germany at the age of 13, focuses on word images in his artistic practice. Language is the main tool of expression for the concept and installation artist. His writings in a wide variety of materials is stretched across walls, floors, facades or streets. Poetry and the meaning and power of language play an important role here. They are forceful, substantive statements with an immensely aesthetic and poetic attitude. He reveals the playful double meaning of words and thus emphasizes the nuances of written communication. Using the means of conceptual art, he explores the possibilities of his medium and invites the audience to participate in the power and beauty of language.
The very different approaches of the two artists create a dynamic and interesting presentation that impressively highlights the diversity and depth of their works.
A comprehensive, scientifically researched catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition.
