2021 // Aluminum Leaf on Watercolour Paper // 360 x 220 x 6 cm // Artist Studio
2021 // Brass, Nickl plated // 74 x 58 cm, // Winston Wächter Fine Art New York, NY
2021 // Brass, Nickl plated // 77 x 62 cm, // Private Collection New York, NY
2021 // Brass, Nickl plated // 60x 56 cm, // Private Collection New Jersey, NJ
2021 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 145x 325 x 5 cm // Private Collection San Francisco, CA
SILHOUETTES AND SHADOWS – 7.9.2019 – 5.1.2020 // Helsinki – Kerava Art Museum
The German born Andreas Kocks is a trained sculptor. He uses thick watercolor paper, sometimes coated with Graphite, Aluminum-, Gold- or Palladium leaf.
Most of his wall installations are site-specific, such as the one he created for Sinkka .
In Kerava, Kocks wanted to blur the borders of the wall space, which is subdivided in two sections and create the illusion of a continuous flowing shape, moving from space to space. This effect is emphasized by the reflection of a glossy grey partition wall. Formed from multiple layers of paper, which Kocks has precut in his studio, the cloud-like shapes spread over the complete 18-meter length of the wall – and thus invite the viewer to experience the whole intersecting movements of the surfaces.
The artwork’s large dimension, the delicate material and the greyish background all have inspired the artist to come up with the title: Elephant’s Breath.
Unbeknownst to Kocks, he has added another layer of meaning to the work through Kerava’s historical circus, which once upon a time housed their elephant, Pepita, next to Sinkka…
As well as cutting the paper, Kocks has engraved relief type images, which are barely discernible on the papers surface. His working process resembles that of drawing with a knife, with the exception that there is no way of fixing any possible mistakes. Each cut is final. The thin lines mark out the edges of the space, over which the cloud-like forms move, like a soft breath of air.
Andreas Kocks lived and worked in New York for almost a decade, but now primarily lives in Munich. He studied sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1980 to 1988, received the Pollock-Krasner Award, New York in 2006 and was a Lecturing Artist at the Savannah College of Arts and Design in 2010/11. He always focused on the integration of Fine Art and Architecture, which is evident in his exhibition pieces, as well as in the public and private commissions he has created for museums and collections worldwide.
All Photos: Pekka Elomaa
2021 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 312 x 542 x 6 cm
2021 // Brass // 165 x 145 x 6 cm // Coporate Collection Las Vegas
2021 // Brass // 170 x 140 x 6 cm // Coporate Collection Las Vegas
2021 // Brass // 155 x 200 x 6 cm // Coporate Collection Las Vegas
2019 // Aluminum on Watercolor Paper // 255 x 180 x 5 cm // Private Collection Seattle
2018 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 320 x 688 x 6 cm // Installation Museum August Macke Haus Bonn
2018 // Platinum Leaf on Watercolor Paper // 195 x 450 x 5 cm // Private Collection Munich
2012 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 560 x 820 x 8 cm // Installation Manchester Art Gallery
2017 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 243 x 300 x 5 cm // Installation at Sebastian Fath Contemporary Mannheim
2017 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 230 x 160 x 5 cm // Installation Sebastian Fath Contemporary Mannheim
2016 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 236 x 196 x 5 cm // Installation Sebastian Fath Contemporary Mannheim
2017 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 300 x 224 x 4,5 cm // Installation at Sebastian Fath Contemporary Mannheim
2017 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 76 x 40 x 3 cm // Installation at Sebastian Fath Contemporary Mannheim
2015 // Aluminum Leafs on Watercolor Paper // 195 x 155 x 7 cm // Installation at Winston Wächter Fine Art New York, NY
2017 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 130 x 225 x 3 cm // Installation at Sebastian Fath Contemporary Mannheim
2017 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 68 x 90 x 4 cm // Private Collection Mannheim
2012 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 285 x 610 x 5 cm // Private Collection New York, NY
Untitled // 2011 // Varnish on Watercolor Paper // 230 x 120 x 100 cm // Installation at Winston Wächter Fine Art New York, NY
Untitled // 2012 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 210 x 100 x 130 cm // Installation at Walkmühle Wiesbaden
2006 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper , Scale 1:10 // 31 x 40 x 0,5 cm // Artist Studio
2004 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 281 x 434 x 40 cm //Museum Biedermann Donaueschingen
Untitled // 2011 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 300 x 350 x 6 cm // Installation at Winston Wächter Fine Art New York, NY
Untitled // 2011 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 300 x 240 x 5 cm // Private Collection Seattle, WA
Three Venues // 2013 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 180 x 360 x 6 cm // Installation at The SeaCity Museum, Southampton + Djanology Art Gallery, Nottingham
2009 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 330 x 250 x 8 cm // Installation at Neue Galerie Dachau
2011 // Watercolor Paper // 180 x 218 x 5 cm // Installation at Winston Wächter Fine Art New York, NY
2009 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper //405 x 1930 x 8 cm // Installation at Neue Galerie Dachau
2005 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 220 x 290 x 5 cm // Private Collection Munich
2005 // Watercolor Paper // 480 x 1010 x 140 cm // Installation at Leopold Hösch Museum Düren
2013 //Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 243 x 277 x 5 cm // Private Collection New York, NY
2010 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 380 x 525 x 5 cm // Collection Mannheimer Versicherungen
2007 // Watercolor Paper // 430 x 1410 x 7 cm // Installation at Neue Werkstätten Munich
2009 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 390 x 1100 x 8 cm // Installation at Museum of Arts and Design New York, NY
2010 // Graphite on Watercolor Paper // 420 x 1200 x 8 cm // Installation at SCAD Savannah College of Arts and Design Atlanta, GA
2007 // Graphite on Paper // 330 × 1670 × 13 cm // Installation at Jeannie Freilich Contemporary New York, NY
