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Recent prints, sculpture, and photographs by German artist Bodo Korsig will be displayed Oct. 16-Dec. 7 at the Williams Center Art Gallery.
Titled “Present and Past,” the exhibition reflects Korsig’s recent fascination with neuroscience and use of abstract forms that attempt to visualize brain function response to certain German and English phrases. The Williams Center will host a talk by the artist noon Wednesday, Oct. 15, and honor him with a public reception 5-6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16.
His interactions with students this week will include visiting an international affairs course taught by Rado Pribic, Edwin Oliver Williams Professor of Languages; discussing a contemporary issue with advanced German students and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, associate professor and assistant head of foreign languages and literatures; leading an art workshop; and meeting with art majors. He also will create a print at Lafayette’s Experimental Printmaking Institute for a portfolio series.
Korsig is one of the most innovative of young German artists. In addition to being an expert in fine art printmaking, he is a painter, photographer, and designer of artist-made books. Over the last several years, Korsig has become close friends with a number of leading American and German neuroscientists. The forms depicted in his works — ones that suggest neural synapses — are both strong and fragile. Fine art prints are usually of a small scale, but some of Korsig’s woodcuts are seven by nine feet, created with a steamroller rather than a traditional printing press. The result of this seemingly brutal technique is paradoxically very delicate and mysterious. Like imagined workings of the brain, Korsig’s art works are elusive and indefinable.
Born in Zwickau, Germany, Korsig is a professor of art at the Academy of Fine Art in Trier. He has had over 25 one-person exhibitions in Berlin, Dresden, Trier, Leipzig, Weimar, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Los Angeles, and New York. He has also been included in more than 40 group exhibitions. Korsig is the recipient of eight international art prizes, including the prestigious International Studio Prize, New York. A book on the artist, Bodo Korsig: Fate, contains a chapter by Robert Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art.
Williams Center Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Monday; 10-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday; 2-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; a half-hour before Williams Center performances; and by appointment. For more information, call (610) 330-5361 or email artgallery@lafayette.edu.
The Williams Center gallery is funded in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts.