Bodo Korsig (*1962 Zwickau/D) lives and works in Trier and is active around the world. The trained sculptor and stone restorer works in various media such as woodcuts, drawings, paintings, objects (reliefs) as well as photography and film.

Since 2015 the focus of his work has been on three-dimensional felt work. The large format, expansive, almost monumental felt works are to be understood as a reaction or mirror to social developments that put people in extreme situations.

The development of the formal language and techniques of previous steel objects find their perfection in the lightness, flexibility and suppleness of the felt. The intense black of the industrial felt fabric, which looks like steel from a distance, allows for a focus on strong contrasts, a variety of formats and dynamic structures, while the cutouts always retain their material related lightness. The soft surface improves the light, making it stand out from the walls and giving the works a floating, heavy, loose impression when hung. Depending on the incidence of light, the objects positioned freely in the room or hanging in contact with the wall become part of a diffuse play of shadows.

When cutting the large format felt works, the statics of the material must be taken into account so that the stability of the finished work of art in its structure of flat and almost fragile connections is not endangered. Dynamic and precisely planned cutouts reproduce brain structures and the transmission of electrical impulses between the synapses in an abstract form, thus offering the viewer a comprehensive projection surface. Where the wall objects open up, the viewer’s individual feelings and thoughts flow in and captivate them. The formal language of the works is reminiscent of microbiological motifs or abstract, individual brain structures. For example on cells, cell strands, microorganisms, but also on pathogens such as viruses. These creations make it possible, also through their sometimes superhuman size, to confront fears and uncertainties.

The variations of fragments of thought open a spotlight on the diverse possibilities of the textile by revealing the reverse sides of the work, which are accentuated with intense, reflective colors, but at the same time deny the viewer the actual form of the structure as they are folded into one another are. The concise design language and effect are universal and free. The unique materiality of the durable felt is always tangibly present.

Bodo Korsig’s abstract forms of powerful lines impress us like relevant characteristics and are complex at the same time; appear strange and yet familiar. Inspired by everyday and specific motifs, for example from medicine, they hardly combine the motifs to form clear images. On closer inspection, round, soft forms mutate into growth-like structures that emanate their own unpredictable energy. Ornamental symbols are reminiscent of shadowy, scientific representations of cell structures, bacterial chains or viral growths.

The exhibition ‹Regaining My Balance› offers visitors a diverse and exciting overview of Bodo Korsig’s work.

In the showroom of Videokunst.ch the new video work «Ankunft»,