Häusler Contemporary

Jürgen Partenheimer
«16 von One Hundred Poets»

Opening: September 9, 2021

Book Launch: September 9 | 6 pm – 8 pm

Exhibition: until Oktober 23, 2021

It is with great pleasure that Häusler Contemporary presents an exclusive excerpt of Jürgen Partenheimer’s long-term project «One Hundred Poets». The work is based on a personal selection of 100 poems to which the artist responds in his unique visual style. In a publication for Golden Luft Verlag, he has matched 16 passages from works by female poets to corresponding works of his own, which Häusler Contemporary is presenting for the first time.

The shapes that have inscribed themselves on the 16 horizontal sheets in the exhibition have the effect of being simple, yet prearranged. Geometric elements merge with organic contours to create visual narratives. In a mysterious language that exists on an intuitive level, they tell of vibrating notions of space, of inklings and allusions, of the consolidation and disintegration of imaginary worlds.

Jürgen Partenheimer «16 von One Hundred Poets», Installation view Häusler Contemporary, 2021 | photo: Sebastian Schaub

Works

Jürgen Partenheimer «Strömung, 100 Poets #23b-70, Ingeborg Bachmann», 2016 Ink, watercolor, pencil on paper Sheet 33 x 27 cm | Frame 72.5 x 60.5 x 3.5 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Separate Essence, 100 Poets #77a-173, Janet Frame», 2019 Pencil, ink, watercolor on paper Sheet 28 x 34.5 cm | Frame 77.5 x 88.5 x 3.5 cm SOLD
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Behind Stowe, 100 Poets #13b-35, Elizabeth Bishop», 2016 Pencil on paper Sheet 33 x 27 cm | Frame 72.5 x 60.5 x 3.5 cm SOLD
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Octaves of a Mystic Depth, 100 Poets #57-146, Elizabeth Barret-Browning», 2018 Watercolor, ink, pencil on paper Sheet 60 x 78 cm | Frame 82.5 x 98.5 x 3.5 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Am Boden die Purpurblüte, 100 Poets #35a-95, Sappho», 2017 Watercolor, pencil on paper Sheet 39.5 x 53 cm | Frame 65 x 77.5 x 3.5 cm SOLD
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Jürgen Partenheimer «The Back of Things, 100 Poets #62b-154, Lucie Brock-Broido», 2019 Watercolor, ink, pencil on paper Sheet 27 x 34 cm | Fame 75.5 x 60.5 x 3.5 cm SOLD
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Die eigentliche Zeit, 100 Poets #30a-87, Sophia de Mello-Bryner», 2016 Watercolor, ink, pencil on paper Sheet 45 x 61 cm | Frame 66.5 x 81.5 x 3.5 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Y Queda el Negro, 100 Poets #53b-140, Clara Janés», 2018 Watercolour, pencil, ink on paper Sheet 27 x 34 cm | Frame 73 x 60.5 x 3.5 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Finite Infinity, 100 Poets #51-136, Emily Dickinson», 2018 Watercolor, ink, pencil on paper Sheet 60.5 x 78 cm | Frame 82.5 x 98.5 x 3.5 cm SOLD
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Jürgen Partenheimer «The Earth's Eye, 100 Poets #76a-172, Alice Oswald», 2019 Pencil, ink, watercolor on paper Sheet 50 x 68 cm | Frame 71.5 x 88.5 x 3.5 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Gathering Night, 100 Poets #65a-158, Alison Croggon», 2019 Ink, pencil, watercolor, collage on paper Sheet 46 x 60 cm | Frame 68 x 80.5 x 3.5 cm SOLD
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Die eigentliche Zeit, 100 Poets #30a-87, Sophia de Mello-Bryner», 2016 Ink, pencil on paper Sheet 45 x 61 cm | Frame 66.5 x 81.5 x 3.5 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Far from The Glare of Stars, 100 Poets #99-199, Lebogang Mashile», 2020 Watercolor, ink, collage on paper Sheet 27 x 33.5 cm | Frame 73 x 60.5 x 3.5 cm SOLD
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Eine Strähne aus Schlaf, 100 Poets #79a-176, Anja Kampmann», 2019 Pencil, watercolor on paper Sheet 39.5 x 49 cm | Frame 51 x 73.5 x 3.5 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Der Lehm der Sprache, 100 Poets #63b-155, Gonca Özmen», 2019 Ink, pencil, watercolor, on paper Sheet 26.5 x 35 cm | Frame 72.5 x 60.5 x 3.5 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Knee Song, 100 Poets #81a-179, Anne Sexton», 2020 Watercolor, pencil, collage on paper Sheet 39 x 49.5 cm | Frame 65 x 73.5 x 3.5 cm SOLD
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Studio view Jürgen Partenheimer

One Hundred Poets

The concept of the group of works One Hundred Poets refers to Katsushika Hokusai, to whose late work I owe the attentive review of my preference for poetry. We share the experience of extended journeys through the world of the imagination, which leads to conscious distance and exciting closeness to the things themselves, as "when the last undiscovered spot is the one that was in the beginning"[1].

Jürgen Partenheimer

[1] „When the last of earth left to discover is that which was the beginning" (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding, V, Berlin 2015, S.80-81).

Jürgen Partenheimer in the Gallery in July 2021, photo: Peter Baracchi

«One has to be aware, we don't do things to reach someone, we do them for ourselves so that others can participate. That is what this is about.»
Jürgen Partenheimer

Jürgen Partenheimer (*1947) has steadily developed his inimitable, highly evocative style of abstraction, for which he has coined the term «metaphysical realism»: his drawings, paintings and sculptures explore the zone of resonance that exists between the hint of tangibility and its ascriptive conceptualisation. It is not surprising that the artist has always had a great affinity for poetry, that form of writing that takes shape mostly «between the lines».

Lebogang Mashile

Ich hab dich getragen

Ich hab dich heute getragen wie einen lumpigen Mantel
um zu fühlen wie warm er mal war
Ich hab dich getragen
Unter dem zerrissenen Schleier der Nacht fern vom Glanz der Sterne oder Augen
Ich hab dich getragen
Bis berührt sich reduzierte auf die Feuchtigkeit zerdrückter Geldscheine zurückgeblieben in meiner winzigen Hand
Ich trage deinen Duft in den Tag
Doch hab ich nie deinen Kuss geschmeckt

I wore you

I wore you today like a raggedy coat
for the feel of how warm it used be
I wore you
Beneath the tattered veil of night far from the glare of stars or eyes
I wore you
Until touched reduced to the wetness of crumpled notes left in my tiny hand
I wear your sent onto day
But I have never tasted your kiss

Ingeborg Bachmann

Strömung

So weit im Leben und so nah am Tod,
daß ich mit niemand darum rechten kann,
reiß ich mir von der Erde meinen Teil;
dem stillen Ozean stoß ich den grünen Keil
mitten ins Herz und schwemm mich selber an.
Zinnvögel steigen auf und Zimtgeruch!
Mit meinem Mörder Zeit bin ich allein.
In Rausch und Bläue puppen wir uns ein.

Jürgen Partenheimer «16 von One Hundred Poets» Installation view Häusler Contemporary, 2021 | photo: Sebastian Schaub

Clara Janés

Y queda el negro medido por los astros.
Y queda el ansia y el enigma.
No hay barca que cruce a la otra orilla:
estar aquí es todo.
El vuelo se llevó el horizonte de nuestros sueños.

Und was bleibt, ist das Schwarz bemessen von den Sternen.
Und was bleibt, ist die Sehnsucht und das Rätsel.
Kein Boot fährt zum anderen Ufer:
Hier sein ist alles.
Der Flug entführte den Horizont unserer Träume.

Jürgen Partenheimer «16 von One Hundred Poets» Installation view Häusler Contemporary, 2021 | photo: Sebastian Schaub

Gonza Özmen

Belki sessiz

Ey dünya, küçüldükçe küçüldün içimizde
Durmadan birikiyor söz balçığı gölün dibinde
Durmadan sesini yitriyor her şey.

Vielleicht lautlos

Du Welt, je kleiner du wurdest, desto kleiner wurdest du in uns.
Unaufhörlich sammelt sich der Lehm der Sprache in der Tiefe des Sees.
Unaufhörlich verliert alles seine Stimme.

Jürgen Partenheimer «Am Boden die Purpurblüte, 100 Poets #35a-95, Sappho», 2017 | Watercolor, pencil on paper | Sheet 39.5 x 53 cm | Frame 65 x 77.5 x 3.5 cm

Jürgen Partenheimer «The Earth's Eye, 100 Poets #76a-172, Alice Oswald», 2019 | Pencil, ink, watercolor on paper | Sheet 50 x 68 cm | Frame 71.5 x 88.5 x 3.5 cm

Jürgen Partenheimer «Eine Strähne aus Schlaf, 100 Poets #79a-176, Anja Kampmann», 2019 | Pencil, watercolor on paper | Sheet 39.5 x 49 cm | Frame 51 x 73.5 x 3.5 cm

«16 von One Hundred Poets» | Publication 2021, published by Verlag Golden Luft, Mainz

In the pandemic year 2020, Partenheimer completed the work cycle of the «One Hundred Poets» with 201 works on paper and 54 paintings. Drawings and watercolours, each based on a poem by 16 female poets from 12 countries, were selected from this convolute. Among them are famous names such as Ingeborg Bachmann, Emily Dickinson or Sappho, but also names such as Clara Janés, Gonca Özmen or Alice Oswald, who are less familiar in the German-speaking world.

The publication by the Golden Luft Verlag, which is presented as part of the current exhibition, juxtaposes 16 poems by 16 women poets in the original and in German translation with Partenheimer's pictorial responses.

With Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Carson, Anja Kampmann, Alice Oswald, Clara Janés, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Janet Frame, Lucie Brock-Broido, Lebogang Mashile, Gonza Özmen, Sappho, Alison Croggon, Anne Sexton.

Further Works | One Hundred Poets

Jürgen Partenheimer «Separate Essence II, 100 Poets #77, Janet Frame», 2019 Oil on canvas 62 x 72 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Die Flügel des Traums, 100 Poets #96, Brentano», 2020 Oil on canvas 45 x 37 cm AVAILABLE
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Jürgen Partenheimer «Schmetterlingswolke, 100 Poets #89, Meret Oppenheim», 2020 Oil on canvas 50 x 45 cm AVAILABLE
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