nikolaus gerszewski . bildender Künstler, Komponist, Theoretiker

<body bgcolor="#5a2129"> <table width="95%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" valign="top"> Ihr Browser kann keine Frames anzeigen hier finden Sie den Inhalt ersatzweise dargestellt: <tr> <td class="class2" align="right" valign="top" nowrap><a onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('aktuell','','images/aktuell_b.gif',1);" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();" href="aktuell.htm" target="material"><img src="images/aktuell.gif" name="aktuell" border="0"></a> <a onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('impress','','images/impressum_b.gif',1);" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();" href="impressum.htm" target="material"><img src="images/impressum.gif" name="impress" border="0"></a><br> <p><br> <a onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('forum','','images/initiative21_b.gif',1);" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();" href="initiative21.htm" target="material"><img src="images/initiative21.gif" name="forum" border="0"></a><br> April 2006 - Mai 2008</p> <p><br> </p> <p><span class="links"><a href="links.htm" target="material">Links</a></span> <img src="images/name.gif" border="0"><br> <span class="class3">1964</span> Hamburg<br> </p> </td> </tr> </td> <tr> <td class="class2" align="left"> <p>New series of Concerts starting in 2009, under the label <span class="class3">"Initiative 21 (Musik des 21. Jh.)"</span>.</p> <p><span class="class3">2008</span> Publishing of CD <a href="http://touchingextremes.blogspot.com/2009/06/nikolaus-gerszewski-ordinary-music-vol3.html" target="_blank">"Ordinary Music Vol.3"</a> on Creative Sources Records. "Ordinary Music", a series of pieces for various instrumentations, written in <a href="ordinary-music.htm" target="material">diagram notation</a>. Performances in Hamburg, <a href="http://blip.tv/file/704059 " target="material">Barcelona</a> and Lisbon (with Ernesto Rodriguesz and his "variable geometric orchestra"). Performance of the solo-violin piece <span class="class3">"Phasen"</span> by <a href="audio/peter-imig.mp3" target="material">Peter Imig</a> (on "Katharakt" Festival of new Music in Hamburg).<br> </p> <p><span class="class3">2007</span> <a href="collaboration.htm" target="material">Collaboration</a> with the dancer <a href="http://blip.tv/file/397076/" target="_top">Diego Chamy</a>. Compositions: <a href="audio/mechanismen.mp3" target="material">"Mechanismen(1. & 2. Kapitel)" </a>for piano, <a href="partituren.htm" target="material">"Zustände"</a> for string quartett, <span class="class3">"light I-VII"</span> (based on poems by robert lax) for mixed choire, <a href="partituren.htm" target="material">"Expressis Verbis"</a> (meta-composition in prose), <a href="partituren.htm" target="material">"date-piece"</a> for vokal-ensemble, <span class="class3">"Noise"</span> for Cello Ensemble, <span class="class3">"Phasen"</span> for solo violin. Essay: <span class="class3">"Vom Sinn und Zweck der Kunst"</span>. Continuation of <span class="class3">"Farbfelddifferenzierungen"</span> (>2002).</p> <p><span class="class3">2006</span> current work on piano-pieces , musical diary (in sheets). Performance of <a href="passagen.htm" target="material">"Passagen, Heft 1"</a> , by Tatjana Prelevic, during "Blurred Edges" (10 Tage aktuelle Musik in Hamburg). Ausstellung <a href="anna.htm" target="material">"ANNA"</a> in "Liget-Galeria", Budapest. Performance of the graphical score "Edges" (Christian Wolff), with Moxi Beidenegel and Hannes Wienert. Compositions: <a href="partituren.htm" target="material">"Artikulation 1"</a> and <span class="class3">"Passagen (5 & 3)"</span> for piano, <span class="class3">"Schichtwechsel"</span> for stringquartett.</p> <p><span class="class3">2004/05</span> Autodidaktic musical studies. <span class="class3">"Passagen, Heft 1 & 2"</span>, for piano. Foundation of <a href="serve.htm" target="material">"serve music (for graphical scores)"</a>, with Sascha Demand, Sonja Roczek, Hannes Wienert. Recording of selected pages from the graphical score "Treatise" by Cornelius Cardew, on CD-Rom: nurnichtnur (LC 05245 / Berlston: 105 1006 C+P 2005). Folder <a href="spielfelder.htm" target="material">"Spielfelder"</a>, on the border of autonomous graphic and graphical notation. Cofounder of FORUM NEUE MUSIK, in der Christianskirche, Hamburg Ottensen.</p> <p><span class="class3">2003</span> <a href="statements.htm" target="material">"10 Statements..."</a>. Cycle of paintings <a href="ruhigehand.htm" target="material">"Steine"</a>, as final studies on the economy of form. Videoanimation <a href="derfilm_klein.htm" target="material">"Loop 1"</a>, Realisation by Thomas Heyn (image) and Guy Saldanha (sound).</p> <p><span class="class3">2002</span> Cycle of paintings <a href="farbdifferenz.htm" target="material">"Farbfelddifferenzierungen"</a>, a study of contrast.</p> <p><span class="class3">2001</span> Coorganizer of the poetryfestival "The Poetic Principle", with Péter Litván, in Budapest. Performance of <span class="class3">"Die letzte Vorstellung"</span>, Goethe-Institut Budapest, with Tracy Splinter. Translation of prose and poetry, from hungarian into german: György Erdély, Sándor Tatár, Talán Sebeö, János Lackfi a.a., publication a.a. in IABILIS. Recording of 50-minute piano-piece <span class="class3">"Quadratur"</span>, a study of intervals, performed by Tünde Goszola.</p> <p><span class="class3">2000</span> Moving back to Hamburg. Finalization of informal studies in a series of monotypes, concerning the issue of randomness and setting, as aspects of nature and aesthetics. Development of collage-technique with coloured paper, lacking manuel apply of paint (deleting traces of craftwork). <a href="geometrie.htm" target="material">First geometrical abstractions</a>, in which painting is reduced on pure setting of colour. Occupation with poetry. A bunch of poems originate, on the border of image- and sound poetry.</p> <p><span class="class3">1999</span> Performace of the monologue <span class="class3">"Die letzte Tragödie"</span> (Madách-treatment), at Café Eckermann, Goethe-Institut, Budapest.</p> <p><span class="class3">1998 - 2000 </span> <a href="berlin.htm" target="material">Residence in Berlin.</a> Development of a <a href="berlin-bilder.htm" target="material">collage-technique</a>, with coloured papers, in combination with painting; abstraction in the spirit of the modern masters. Work on the monologue<a href="dieletzte.htm" target="material">"Die letzte Vorstellung"</a>, that varies the issue of nonrepresentality in the medium of spoken language<a href="berlin-bilder.htm" target="material">.</a></p> <p><a href="selbstportrait.htm" target="material">1998</a> Turning back to painting. Some formal/informal oil- and acryl- paintings originate, concerning the issue of formation and dissolation.</p> <p><span class="class3">1997</span> Performance of the one-act play <span class="class3"><b>"The last Prayer"</b></span>, with Míhály Víg and György Erdély, R.S.9, Budapest. Recording of the composition <span class="class3"><b>"Quintett"</b></span>, performed by Róbert Facski. Tapecomposition "Rechtssoziologie", making use of a text by Niklas Luhmann (cut-up technique). Series of <a href="miniature.htm" target="material">miniature-collages</a>, made from art-calendar images (Picasso, Miró, Klimt, etc.).</p> <p><span class="class3">1996 - 98</span> <a href="shapes.htm" target="material"><b>"Shapes and Pieces"</b></a>, an ensemble of plastical works (wood, coloured varnish), for installation in livingrooms (in combination with furniture/items of practical use).</p> <p><span class="class3">1996</span> Performance of the one-act play <a href="protokoll.htm" target="material">"Protokoll"</a>, with Anna Rozsahegyi, R.S.9 Studio-Szinház, Budapest. First attempts of musical notation. Contakt with the hungarian composer Gábor Litván, Member of the "Józsika"- choire.</p> <p><span class="class3">1995/96</span> Temporarily back in Hamburg, work as a dishwasher at "Strand-Café", <a href="earlyworks2.htm" target="material">Finalization of "early works".</a> Foundation of the free-pop group <span class="class3"><b>"vier minus eins"</b></span>, with FX Schröder and Kai Engelhardt. Organizer of music- and literature events. Short-stories, unter the pen-name "Karl Messer".</p> <p><span class="class3">1992 - 95</span> <b><a href="mikrokosmos.htm" target="material">"Mikrokosmos"</a></b>, a series of abstract-informal graphics/gouaches, concerning the idea of shape as a result of motion. Publishing of writings (a.a on Gerhard Richter, A.R. Penck) in the hungarian art-magazine BALKON. Musical improvisation, solo as well as in a row-orchestra; several tape-recordings.</p> <p><span class="class3">1992 - 98</span> Residence in Budapest, Hungary.</p> <p><span class="class3">1990 - 92</span> <a href="earlyworks.htm" target="material">"Early works"</a>: landscape & portrait.</p> <p><span class="class3">1989/90 </span> Gueststudies with A.R. Penck, at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Subjects: "form/space/body", "appearence and significance". Sketches on the speed of lining: trying to synchronize the speed of drawing and the speed of thought.</p> <p><span class="class3">1989</span> Rift with Prof. Graubner; <a href="waldspaziergang.htm" target="material">extensive strolls in the forest</a></p> <p><span class="class3">1988-91</span> Studies of visual arts (freie Kunst) at HfbK Hamburg, with K.P. Bremer and Gotthard Graubner.</p> </td> </tr> </table> </body>