SEBASTIAN HOSU Recent charcoal drawings
RUTGER BRANDT GALLERY Rutger Brandt Gallery has been established in 2010. It's mission is to showcase contemporary art by emerging young artists as well as established international artists in a multi-generational program. We aim for a long-term commitment in developing the artists?career and the gallery acts as a liaison with other galleries outside The Netherlands. One of the connecting factors, how varied the outcome may be, is socially committed and narrative art to be found in various disciplines. Political, social actuality and individualism are key ingredients to reflect the spirit of this age. Confronted with the many aspects of human relations, especially those of alienation, isolation, absurdum and the raw side of life, these works call for self-reflection. These artists seek new ways of representation that make us aware of unexpected aspects of everyday life. Our exhibition program is dedicated to aesthetic, progressive and thought-provoking shows.
Playground series | 2017 | charcoal on paper | detail Action! Attention! series | 2017 | charcoal on paper | 54 x 44 cm
Same movement | 2017 | charcoal on paper | 53 x 44 cm
Sebast ian Hosu 1988, Satu Mare, Romania Sebastian Hosu doesn't use paint but charcoal to depict his figures and mysterious crowds. Based on an old family photo archive, Hosu's work is expressive and extremely subtle; two extremes that are not naturally present at the same time in an artwork. His dark stripes, spots and sweeps are honest, sharp and are directly transferred to paper. Because a lack of completed, specific objects and figures his work invites into a deeper thinking and evaluation of the usual way of perceiving and interpreting situations, others and ourselves. Are we looking at a family portrayed in front of a forest? Or is it a group of people that are being deported (caught) in the middle of the night? The charcoal drawings by Sebastian Hosu are intriguing: there where the figuration ends and where spatial voids arise, there emerge 100s of associations by the spectator.
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Playground series 2016 charcoal on paper 61 Ă— 77 cm
Daylight series| 2017 | charcoal on paper | 93 x 100 cm
Un t it led | 2017 | charcoal on paper | 107 x 140,5
Action! Attention! series | 2017 | charcoal on paper | 53 x 41 cm
Same movement | 2017 | charcoal on paper | 53 x 44 cm
Light show | 2017 | charcoal on paper | 70 x 55 cm
Untitled| 2017 | charcoal on paper | 54 x 49 cm
Hug | 2017 | charcoal on paper | detail
Same movement | 2017 | charcoal on paper | 58,5 x 37,5 cm
INSTALLATION VIEW SOLO SHOW SEBASTIAN HOSU
INSTALLATION VIEW SOLO SHOW SEBASTIAN HOSU
Cu r r icu lu m Vit ae Born in 1988, Satu Mare, Romania Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany Edu cat ion 2013- 2016 Meisterschüler studies at Prof. Heribert C. Ottersbach (HGB), Leipzig, Germany 2011-2012 Master at the «Académie Royale des Beaux-arts », Painting section, Liege, Belgium 2009-2010 Bachelors degree at the University of Fine Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2008-2009 Erasmus scholarship at the «Accademia Albertina di Bellearti », Turin, Italy 2007 Graduated in the High School of Fine Arts « Aurel Popp », Satu Mare, Romania Select ed exh ibit ion s 2017 «Paper Postions Berlin», Rutger Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2016 «Creating Realities«, Rutger Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2015 «Natural Selections», Westpol A.I.R. space, Leipzig, Germany 2015 «Sun Outside», KAAD, Bonn, Germany
Select ed gr ou p exh ibit ion s 2016 «Amsterdam Drawing», Rutger Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2016 «Menschen-Träume», (artist talk with Misheck Masamvu), KAAD, Bonn, Germany 2016 «Klasse Ottersbach», Bayer-Kultur, Leverkusen, Germany 2015 «Backstage Painting», Triumph-Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2015 « Backstage Painting», Bükü-Galerie, Leipzig, Germany 2014 «Die Pferde sind tot!», Forum Kunst Rottweil, Germany 2014 Galerie de Wégimont, Liége, Belgium 2013 «Drawing protest», GFZK ?Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst?, Leipzig, Germany 2012 «G.U.E.S.T.S.3», Brussels, Belgium 2012 «Paintball», Dubois Friedland Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2011 «Plurality», Académie Royale des Beaux-arts, Liege, Belgium 2009 Animation «Obscurus» projected ?2nd Annual Toronto Romanian Film Festival?, Toronto, Canada 2008 Participant in «Animest» Festival of Animated Film, Bucharest, Romania 2008 Participant in «Cluj Film Festival» [Festivalul Filmului Clujean], Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2008 Participant in «International Short Footage Festival», Cluj-Napoca, Romania Aw ar ds 2015 1st Prize «10. Kunstpreis Wesseling», Germany 2015 1st Prize «ArtWalk», Leipzig, Germany 2014-2016 KAAD Stipendium, Germany 2012 Elisabeth Greenshields Award, Canada 2012 «Price Horlait», Brussels, Belgium 2012 Finalist «Herelbeke Prijs Beeldende Kunsten», Belgium 2006 1st Prize Drawing on ecology, Satu Mare, Romania
Creative space | 2017 | charcoal on paper | 70 x 55 cm