“My pictures,” the artist himself says about his artworks, “reflect an intuitive, emotionalizing formation that is fleeting, unstable, and constantly reinventing itself. The works allow for the recognition of design tendencies and form forces. They are versatile, open, promising, and dark.”
Constroffer visualizes his observations as complexly interpretable ciphers. In doing so, he works on various thematic areas, which he temporarily sets aside, revisits, reformulates, condenses, or connects. Human figures may appear, but also highly abstracted landscape formations or architectural structures. Time and again, it is about spatial experiences, which Constroffer usually condenses on the surface of the picture carrier. In his latest phase of work, however, he also develops small sculptures from painterly treated cardboard elements, which expand the complexity of his painting into new dimensions.
After his apprenticeship as a poster painter, Werner Constroffer studied at the renowned Passage-Kaufhaus in Saarbrücken at the State School for Art and Handicraft with Oskar Holweck and Robert Sessler. Afterwards, he worked as a graphic designer in various advertising agencies before devoting himself entirely to painting and drawing in 1986. He is a member of the Saarland Artists Association.
The Adult Education Center Regional Association Saarbrücken aims to support artists from the regional association with its exhibition series and provide them with a prestigious setting in the wonderful ambiance of the Old Town Hall at Schlossplatz in Saarbrücken.
The vernissage for the exhibition will take place on Thursday, 28.11.2024, at 5:00 p.m. in the Old Town Hall at Schlossplatz in Saarbrücken. After a welcome speech by vhs director Dr. Carolin Lehberger, the Saarbrücken artist Fred Weber will give the keynote address. The exhibition can be visited until 07.01.2025.
The Old Town Hall is a public building and is open during the vhs course operations from Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Admission is free.
