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Artist Exhibitions:
Ulrich was born in Germany in
1969 and has been living in
London since 1988, with
various work and study phases
spent in Berlin and other
parts of Germany, as well as
in France (Paris) and Italy
(Trieste). He recently moved
back to Germany and is
currently dividing his time
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Artist Galleries:
CURRENTLY SHOWING WORK AT:
Christoph Dornier Foundation,
Bielefeld, Germany (Tel: +49
521 30469-0)
Galleries wishing to show my
art, please contact me via
this site.
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Artist Reviews:
The work of Ulrich Osterloh is
exquisite and very spiritual.
It definitely has meaning, and
puts forth a combination of
wisdom, compassion, and a
knowing of the higher planes.
It is obvious that it not only
is generated from the heart,
but from a world beyond.
Sam Clark, New Hampshire
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Ulrich Gerhard Osterloh
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"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."
(C.S. Lewis)
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"Who speaks to me,
with my own voice?
From himself comes
a marvellous stranger
called Art."
(M. Dufrenne)
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
(Jean Jacques Rousseau)
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
(Buddha)
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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Night. O you whose countenance, dissolved
in deepness, hovers above my face.
You who are the heaviest counterweight
to my astounding contemplation.
Night, that trembles as reflected in my eyes,
but in itself strong;
inexhaustible creation, dominant,
enduring beyond the earth's endurance;
Night, full of newly created stars that leave
trails of fire streaming from their seams
as they soar in inaudible adventure
through interstellar space:
how, overshadowed by your all-embracing vastness,
I appear minute!---
Yet, being one with the ever more darkening earth,
I dare to be in you.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
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The Creative Process
With every piece I make, I am trying to push my own limits and allow for new possibilities in unexplored places of my mind, and the uncovering of these hidden possibilities is probably the main impetus for my work.
Painting is an entirely magical (equally rational and irrational) process for me, that really seems to 'begin with the end, and end with the beginning'. I never cease to be amazed by the creative process, where everything falls into place in the end, even if the struggle can be tremendous.
Over the years, I have learned to develop more and more trust in this process, and one can say that indeed every painting is in itself an expression of this trust.
U G OSTERLOH
German version follows:
Der kreative Prozeß
Für mich ist die Malerei ein in gleichem Maße rationaler wie irrationaler Prozess, der tatsächlich mit dem Ende beginnt und mit dem Anfang endet, oder anders gesagt, der sich vor einem Hintergrund von Kräften abspielt, für die das ’normale’ Verständnis von Zeit, Raum oder Wirklichkeit nicht mehr gilt. Mich erstaunt es immer wieder, wie das Kunstwerk entsteht, wie die Elemente zueinander finden, trotz aller Schwierigkeiten. Ich habe mit der Zeit gelernt, diesem oft sehr komplexen Prozeß mehr und mehr zu vertrauen, und sicherlich ist jedes Bild auch Ausdruck dieses Vertrauens.
Mit jedem meiner Bilder versuche ich, an meine eigenen Grenzen zu gelangen und sie neu zu überschreiten, und sicher ist der Wunsch, intellektuelle, emotionale und formale Grenzen zu überschreiten, einer der wichtigsten Auslöser für meine Arbeit.
U G OSTERLOH
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