Mighty Small
5 – 26 October 2024
The „Mighty Small“ Exhibition is Cascade Art Concept’s first annual group exhibition, featuring a stunning collection of new, small-scale artworks by Australian, European, and South Korean artists. The exhibition is designed to provide an opportunity to view artworks up close, appreciate the attention to detail, and understand the intention behind each piece.
Memory of The Nature
4 – 28 September 2024
Tarim Claire Jeon
The Cascade Art Concept is pleased to present Korean and Australian Jogakbo artists Taerim Claire Jeon
Korean patchwork techniques, Known as Jogakbo, are traditionally used to make wrapping cloths from leftover fabrics. In recent years, the Jogakbo has been reconfigured and deconstructed to produce contemporary works that are slowly gaining national and international recognition. Taerim Claire Jeon is an artist who combines tradition and modernity, illustrating how Jogakbo continues to inspire artists today.
Renewed Botanic – Gabriel Parker
12 July – 24th August 2024
The sculpture responds to the way plant life grows over nearly everything. By using imagery as a filter, I aim to create a sense of closeness to the botanical environment. This work explores the renewed space that exists today, which plants occupied millions of years ago. This space is composed of the hydrocarbons and minerals found in steel, which form the basis of these compositions that reference the botanical world. I encourage you to resist seeking meaning in the forms. The focus is on the gestures created through the direct work with steel, which I have documented here. It’s about the bay, the wetlands, the wind, and the tools and their history as they exist in my hands. The beauty of the material is displayed here in its raw form. I don’t wish to artificially embellish these pieces; they are personal, and there’s no trick to compel you to look. I want to showcase a rawness that becomes apparent when you examine the surface closely. These pieces invite you to pay attention rather than compete for your focus. They occupy their space without taking up much volume.
Lydia Jacob in Brisbane
7 May -22nd June
A French artist of world stature
Raymond Waydelich comes from Alsace and became an artist out of an inner calling. Alsace is a kind of earthly paradise for people who know how to enjoy fine food, friendly gatherings, local festivities, inviting landscapes, and picturesque history.
Artists are people who see the world with their own eyes and thus also look under the surface of the banal manifestations, and this ability is already a defining characteristic of the artist. In his perception, things take on a soul and the story they tell. The artist can understand and interpret them, similar to how children give their toys names and characters and can talk for hours with their building blocks, dolls, or stuffed animals to discuss the nature of the world.
Later, when they develop corporate strategies, evaluate balance sheets or create curricula, operate service stations for vehicles or advertising agencies, they can no longer do it just like that, in childish innocence. They have grown up; news from the magical world between reality and psyche is rather perceived as embarrassing and no longer perceived.
The artist, on the other hand, receives the fine receptors that tell him so much more about this world. He listens with awake curiosity to the interplay of characters and opinions.
Fixed morality and dreamy phantasy are his materials, and they are quite lively and active. The artist perceives them, shapes them as his very own material, translates them into colour, ceramics, wood, metal, or drawing, and thus makes visible what seems insignificant or non-existent to the „adult man.“
The result is that the artist lives in a more naive, incomparably more colorful, and surprising world, which often seems childish and irrelevant to the „adult“ business-oriented person.
But sometimes he recognizes the richness and value of the other world by contemplating the artist’s works, which reveal to him so much of the „paradise lost“ of his own life experience.
As such an artist, you can imagine Raymond Waydelich. Effusing with projects and ideas, he lives his dream and fortunately, very successfully.
This is because he is – also fortunately – an accomplished craftsman who chooses and treats, paints, shapes materials.
He is also a gifted draftsman, one who finds and draws the lines from which figures, animals, landscapes, and architecture are created with a safe hand. As a draughtsman, he is great, so he is also one of the greats of Alsatian drawing art, together with Tomi Ungerer, Camille Claus and others who have drawn their Alsatian homeland here.
A drawing or etching by Raymond Waydelich on the wall is already a statement that expresses the education and culture of its owner.
Text: Tilmann Krieg for Gallery Cascade Art Concept 2024