Dirk Woita

Based on my earlier works, which had the drawing-illustrative representation of mythical texts and poems to object, followed by a renewed confrontation with purely linear drawing and following with physically-dimensional drawing.
My focus was and is in the graphic area, where the painting is already involved very much in the works. Here I follow the very traditional approach to find first clarifications in the drawing and then to address the problems in painting.
My recent work deals with problems of geometry to represent the world. For this I refer to the developments from Giotto to the Italian Quattro Centro, especially Piero della Francesca. From contemporary development I am concerned by the approach of the Cubists, but I exclude the resorting to primitive and Euclidean designs, and idealize an organic molding. Interest and work tasks are particularly in the free treatment of space and in the connection to that thing that is not to be seen separated from space but constitutes from space "conditions" and "Raumsein" (like being space himself).
The theoretically rigorous foundation serves as a platform and as a guide to enter the graphical / scenic work to an artistic formulation as emotional areas opens and ultimately - as pos...

Printing technician, studied painting and graphics at IBKK Bochum

2007/2008 Kurse in Siebdruck bei Wolfgang Rüppel (Europäische Kunstakademie Trier)

2010 Monotypie bei Kedron Barrett (Bildwerk Frauenau)

2008 - 2011 Studium der Malerei und Grafik am IBKK in Bochum

Seit 2011 Meisterklasse Malerei & Grafik bei Prof. Piotr Sonnewend (IBKK Bochum)

Seit 2013 Mitglied im Kunstverein Plauen-Vogtland e.V.

2010 Teilnahme an der Kunstmesse/Ausstellung „artVOGTLAND 2010“ in Plauen

2012 „Arbeiten auf Papier“, Ausstellungsbeteiligung im Kunst- und Galeriehaus Bochum-Wattenscheid

2014 „Fliegender Wechsel“, Werkschau des Kunstvereins Plauen-Vogtland, Galerie im Malzhaus Plauen