K.OSS Contemporary Art is pleased to present a collection of site-specific paper sculptures by German artist Angela Glajcar.

Angela Glajcar creates site-specific installations with paper, light and space. Her works reflect a study of the environment in which they are placed using an "extreme economy of means". In all these compositions there is "formal rigor, simplicity and transparency". The elegant purity of the compositions derive from the total absence of color, while their precision is determined by certain principles to which the artist strictly adheres. Interested in the exploration of how space is experienced, the artist uses a technique she calls “terforation,” which stems from perforation (the Latin word for hole) and terra (the Latin word for earth). Alluding to terra incognita, Glajcar is interested in exploring unknown regions through her work. “….terra incognita hints at a vague idea, the supposition of knowledge as yet not clearly definable. The object refusing to be defined more clearly is the shape, the space created by the horizontal layering of sheets of paper with holes in them,” she says. These shapes create hollow stretches of emptiness that stretch into the unknown. The works are distinguished on one side by overlaps, and on the other by subtractions of material through tears and perforations. It is a space that plays with light and shadow. The edges created by the “wounded” paper allows the viewer to rest their gaze and perceive - in that gesture of rupture – a thoughtful image of the unknown. These sculptures of Glajcar resemble choral works, in which each sheet of paper is recomposed into the harmony of the sculpture as a whole. The installations fully occupy their spaces, and once observed from different angles, invite transcendent moments of contemplation.

Spanning more than two decades of solo and group exhibitions around the world, Glajcar has won numerous awards, including the Zonta Art Award and the Phonix Art Award. She is a graduate of Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg and served as a visiting professor of sculpture at the University of Giessen.

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