BEYOND HORIZON Curatorial Walk Through and Reception

BEYOND HORIZON
 

With Barbara Bachner, Vian Borchert, Leslie Ford, Philip Gerstein, Sandra Gottlieb,
Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Joyce Pommer, and Martin Weinstein.

Concept and Curation: Priska Juschka

Exhibition Dates: April 3 - April 26, 2025

Curatorial Exhibition Walk Through and Reception:

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2025 | 6-8 PM

Press Release:
Lichtundfire is pleased to welcome all to a Curatorial Exhibition Walk Through with Lichtundfire’s gallery director Priska Juschka for BEYOND HORIZON, an exhibition in various media, painting, photography, and works on paper, that addresses, both figuratively and literally, humanity's quest to go beyond the boundaries of the horizon, Greek horizein = limit, and farther than the physical eye can see. The exhibition, conceptually and visually, questions the limits of our consciousness and reaches into our imagination, addressing the thirst to experience the realm beyond what we can both discern and foresee.

Defined by the Cambridge dictionary as “the line at the farthest place that you can see, where the sky seems to touch the land or sea”, this exhibition looks towards the possibilities of decoding the horizon and its implied linearity as a dividing line, a division between above and below, or between different elements such as earth, or water, and air. Rather than defining the line that separates the Earth and the atmosphere, the exhibition seeks to go beyond this observation point– leading into the realm of speculation of what lies beyond.

The search for answers also thrusts us into a new spectrum of observation: If, originally, the horizon was considered something tangible, we now navigate in the sphere of a much less certain transmutation of a fixed line. Similarly, often associated with a distinct visual palette when depicting or implying the horizon, with hues that reference the earth, water, and the sky, the exhibition goes beyond a literal description of a terrain mirrored by the air, and leads into a much more personally, psychologically, and philosophically charged observation of what connotes a horizon and what we might expect to lie beyond.

Thinking of the horizon as a natural phenomenon, similar to a Fata Morgana, or other phenomena caused by the confluence of natural indicators– the ellipsoid shape of the earth, the earth/sun constellation, particles in the air, a.o. that meet the retina of our eyes at a specific moment in time, which sends signals to the synapses of our brain, which then construes an image of something that, in actuality, does not exist but is the figment of our observation.

Over time, much speculation has been connected with the horizon line– the physical end of the Earth, the beginning of an either divine or less divine realm of our imagination and belief systems– both concrete and metaphorically.

The word aphorism comes from horizon, Greek aphorizein, to aphorize means to communicate or to transmit. In this sense, the artists in the exhibition reflect and express the various associations to a fleeting, intangible non-entity that, similarly to the misnomer entity of time itself, can neither be described nor fixated as it is speculative and has no form– however, works as a conduit to transmit our profound thoughts and inner feelings–.

For additional information, images, events and to arrange an appointment, please contact
Priska Juschka at info@lichtundfire.com .

About Lichtundfire:
LICHTUNDFIRE was established in 2015, with a visual program emphasizing nonrepresentational, conceptual, and abstract art; especially minimal, color field, geometrical, straight edge, abstract expressionist painting, lyrical abstraction, and process work in all media, as well as abstracted, conceptual representation. Through its exhibitions, Lichtundfire's program is dedicated to developing and nurturing an
active, engaged, progressive, and emancipated art community that addresses cultural and social realities as expressed through visual arts. Beyond its carefully curated visual program, Lichtundfire seeks to actively connect with other parts of the creative community, especially in the field of poetry, literature, philosophy, and Critical Theory.

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