DIRECT REFLECTIONS
16.11.2019 – 05.01.2020

Evan Robart’s works are strongly characterized and influenced by images of urban landscapes and the visual conspicuousness of everyday life in metropolises. Geometries resulting from the scaffolding of buildings, lattice fences in which plastic balls from children’s games have become entangled and, above all, the contrasts resulting from gentrification in the cityscape appear in his works.
His exhibition at the Kunsthalle will also reflect phenomena and references to Bremerhaven’s urban development - developments in city districts and contrasts between the historic and the new: “Direct Reflections”.

Evan Robarts’ field of activity is very broad and ranges from sculptures and installations to panel paintings. On these mosaics, composed of linoleum tiles, he applies liquid plaster with a mop, thus placing the gesture of cleaning the floor in the center of the picture. Robarts works with rows, grids and geometries that are situated in the field of tension between creating order versus breaking order. His creative process involves observing, collecting, deconstructing, reconstructing and installing. In doing so, it is important to create new pictorial and spatial contexts, which he draws from the familiar, the found and the everyday.

In the “Direct Reflections” exhibition, as in other previous exhibitions, Evan Robarts will respond very strongly to the dimensions and conditions of the exhibition space. He will be showing an extensive installation of scaffolding, which he will supplement with sculptures and panel paintings.

Evan Robarts
Born 1982, lives and works in New York City, Brooklyn, studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Berthold Pott Cologne, Bryce Wolkowitz New York, The Hole New York, Collection Frédéric de Goldschmidt Brussels, Bank Gallery Beijing, Berman Museum Collegeville, Centre D’Action Culturelle Niort, Balice Hertling New York, Jérome Pauchant Paris, National Arts Club New York, Abstraction & Architecture Université Strasbourg, Pratt Institute Brooklyn, among others.

Curated by Klaus Becké.