Vancouver—-Neo Faber Studio is pleased to announce the launch of its inaugural exhibition and ongoing operation in Vancouver. At the heart of Neo Faber Studio is the art of Joachim Waibel, a unique cultural presence who works with embodied meanings. A mixed media visual artist and poet, his art practice is interdisciplinary and multi-faceted and has one common denominator: he uses whatever symbolic form in whatever medium best conveys his philosophical interests at the moment of creation. From drawing and painting to photography and film, from conceptual sculpture to concrete poetry, his creative approach is living proof that the medium is the message.
Originally from Germany, he relocated to North America in 1973 and has since explored many avenues of self-expression, in keeping with his eclectic cultural upbringing and diverse experiences as a maker. He is in fact a neo-faber, a new maker, and his active Vancouver-based studio is exploring fresh and flexible ways to operate above and beyond the traditional gallery system. Now is the time for parallel possibilities, and this is the place to celebrate them.
Based on the collaborative principles of both the medieval and renaissance artisanal studio but merged with the digital domain of contemporary culture, Neo Faber Studio celebrates the mutual advantages of shared creative resources, the synergy of specialized talents and the power of a communal artistic atmosphere. Located in West Vancouver, Neo Faber Studio will be presenting periodical installations on an ad hoc basis, to which the public is not only invited but also warmly welcomed. Neo Faber will be working with curators Donald Brackett and Elham Puriamehr in the presentation and documentation of its ongoing public projects. These will be active and dynamic alternatives to customary cultural exchange, designed to focus, as the name suggests, on new ways of transforming both culture and materials.
Also connected to its public studio venue are the upcoming publishing projects conducted in collaboration with artist Joachim Waibel, art critic Donald Brackett and Richard Nadeau, Executive Vice-President of Figure 1. Publishing. The first and second publishing ventures will be a curated exhibition catalogue, The Arcade of the Aura: In Case of Future Break Glass, and a book of images and poetry, Neo Faber: The Art of Joachim Waibel. These books are currently in the planning and development stage and should be available sometime in the fall of 2016. The first off-site curatorial project of Neo Faber Studio will be Painting With Film: The Image as Object, a site specific installation by Joachim Waibel, curated by Donald Brackett and tentatively slated for Fall of 2015 at the Vancouver Film School.
Neo Faber Studio will also be specializing in the production of limited edition textiles merging classical and postmodern traditions in stunning lines of tapestries, carpets, and draperies, reclaimed from history and pointed toward the future. This line will be referenced in an upcoming release.
June 15, 2015
