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| Pablo Reese von Lichtenberg Pablo Reese is a self taught artist living in Berlin, Germany. He is currently working in mixed media assemblage, collage and sculpture, incorporating found objects and images. He refers to his personal work as RASA (Recycling ARTifacts as Structural Assemblages) Background: Born in the USA, 1959. Attended Florida Atlantic University where he studied Banking. Worked for 12 years as Bank Manager before returning to the University to become a foreign language teacher. Spent many simultaneous years gathering technical experience from his close friend and mentor, the American artist, John A. Watson. Additionally, he spent l8 months touring Central America & the European continent learning the French and Spanish languages as well as extensively discovering the artistic treasures of the European and Maya civilizations. In 1993, after being invited to Berlin for an art exhibit by German painter Charlotta Janssen, he decided to more actively pursue his inner passion as artist. Under the artist name, Pablo Reese, he began exhibiting his AIDS oriented series: "works in red & black". Consequently, the intrique of the metropole Berlin inspired his works greatly and he decided to take up residence as a "Wahl-Berliner". In 2001, the artist opened GALLERY twenty-four, in the ever popular bourough of Berlin-Friedrichshain. The project, unique in its concept, opened in the autumn of 2001 with its primary goal to offer other autodidactic and undiscover artists from around the world a place to exhibit their works to the increasingly international market of Berlin. Statement Collage and assemblages are not new mediums. Ever since Picasso first glued a commercially produced oil cloth to his 1912 painting "Still Life with Chair Caning" has collage been a viable and intricate part of modern art. As the forerunner to assemblages, the technique of cutting natural or manufactured materials and pasting them onto canvas has radically escaped from the confines of traditional art surfaces and flourishes in a style of work unto its own. In my works, which I call RASA, I have chosen to concentrate on incorporating the elements of collage and the freedom of assemblage with my own expression of creativity. I’ve elected to substitute the conventional paint brush and canvas for the structural diversity of various elements, which would normally be viewed as trash, to create an organized and asthectically pleasing combination of parts. This so-called combination affords the viewer the opportunity to see disgarded elements in a new light, no longer only as an item which has been mass produced, consumed and then discarded. The "hyper-consume" environment which we’ve created tends to leave a horrifying trail of refuse and waste often laying thoughtlessly throughout the streets of our cities. As an assemblage artist I try to see the artistic quality of the shape, structure or design of an item and visualize its placement as a part of a whole. By combining each segment with another element of like or different qualities I hope to energize the surfaces and offer the beholder an interesting and fulfilling moment in personal observation. I’m often asked if every piece has a meaning or an individual message. No, I don’t try to say something with each specific work, but I would like its viewer to search for his or her own interpretation or to capture an emotion which passes through their soul as they encounter my works. |
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