NEWS

in progress

 
FOLíAS  2024 / 25
 
 

LA FOLíA / FOLíAS / LA FOLIE / THE FOLLY

painting © KLAUS HU 2024 25


La Folía (Spanish), or Follies (English), also known as folies d'Espagne (French), La Follia (Italian), and Folia (Portuguese), is one of the oldest remembered European musical themes or primary material, generally melodic, of a composition, on record. The theme exists in two versions, referred to as early and late folias, the earlier being faster.


Several sources report that Jean-Baptiste Lully was the first composer to formalise the standard chord progression and melodic line.


Main focus is, how a world in crisis responds to a historical musical theme, having had its origin in Portugal or Spain. By implementing color, figurative and abstract notions on this subject, a new painting series juxtaposes this musical theme with its contemporary follies.


 

subjects:

I: space exploration (s) : starship trooper

II false idols / the male hero / Blinky / Clint

III: online seductions. the body.

IV: in progress



 
 
 
 
 
 
folía 1
pencil, charcoal, graphite, titan on stonehenge paper
94 x 126 cm
© KLAUS HU 2024
& VG BILD-KUNST BONN

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOLIA I
 
oil on canvas 160 x 200 cm
 © KLAUS HU 2024
& VG BILD-KUNST BONN
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

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STUDIO KLAUS HU 

private public p-review
of recent and work in progress
during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025
at Saturday, 3rd of May
from 2 pm till 7 pm.


1. HI ALTITUDE 2019 21
a memory of the future
and a precognition of the past.
reflecting on ecological issues,
distant landscapes and prehistoric ritual sites.

2. CLOUD_9, 2022 23
a poetic reflection
on ephemeral clouds
hovering above my studio.

and

3. FOLIA, 2024 25
selected works in progress

La Folía (Spanish), or Follies (English), also known as folies d'Espagne (French), La Follia (Italian), and Folia (Portuguese), is one of the oldest remembered European musical themes. Main focus of the work in progress is, how a world in crisis responds to a historical musical theme.

 

 




 

images:

AFTER THE CLOUD - green deal
oil on canvas 160 x 200 cm
JOSHUA TREE_S
oil on canvas 160 x 200 cm
NAZCA, ensemble of 4 (5)
graphite, chalk, black wood stain on Bristol 250 g
each 70 x 100 cm / framed 80 x 110 cm
ensemble 400 x 110 cm

CLOUD_9.1
oil on canvas 160 x 200 cm
CLOUD_9.2
oil on canvas 160 x 200 cm

and

FOLIA III, IV, V in progress
oil on canvas each 70 x 80 cm

all works © KLAUS HU 2019/21, 2022/23, 2024/25

and VG BILD-KUNST BONN

 

 

 

 

 

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2024  
 
at CLOUD 9 
preview of new work series
 
 
 

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2023

 

 

CLOUD 9 / 2022 / 23


 



 
 
 

 
 
Painted cloud formations, found above my studio in Berlin of the last several years. Some recorded, some stored in the archive. Lets not be simple to confuse cloud painting and storytelling. Imagination is the one source, translation is the other. Towards each cloud, a small story will evolve. The first have been filed under the "uncanny”. How the series will unfold, cannot be predicted, but for sure it will be clouds recorded from above the studio space in Berlin, delivering poetic or prose like short stories towards each chapter. Clouds have a fleeting and ephemeral consistency, neither representing a subject. Their appearance taking any shape let them become the ideal projection of transit states. This work series does not dream of escapism, but after a content loaded work period, this interim work series provides calm and frenzy for an ambiguity of interpretations. Each cloud even seemingly bears its own personal time frame for truth and fiction.




view works here: CLOUD 9 / 2022 / 23


"on 22 Dec 2023 out of curiosity, I had a chat with Bard Google bot about the uncertainty principle in the universe, electromagnetic charges and the possibility of black holes acting as a "stir" in the fabric for continuous creation and destruction, and thus eliminating black matter / energy as theoretical concept for accelerated expansion"...
 

work series CLOUD 9 and full chat with Bard 
about the ”uncertainty principle in the universe”
download (60 pages)
 
 
 
A Certain Distance  
review by James Reich
(writer, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US, May 2024)


download
 
  
 
available works
of CLOUD 9
via google.drive as .pdf



 
 
 

 
 
 
  
 
Soth, Chris and Phillip went into an auction house
... and never came out alive again.

 
there must have been some mushroom clouds hovering...
 
(uncanny)

 

 

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2022




solo exhibition

 HI ALTITUDE 2019 21
 
 
@villaheike.berlin
 
 
 https://www.artrabbit.com/events/hi-altitude-2019-21

a memory of the future
and a precognition of the prehistoric

 

Painting, that connects the wired digital brain with distant features, locations and rituals. Who would  deny, that the genome editing process, abandoned bombing test sites or the astronauts space capsule are not so different from the fire and its shadows inside the prehistoric cave. Landscape, figuration and abstraction do mingle in the new series of paintings by Klaus Hu, based on recycled drawings and collages. Shown are distant landscapes and prehistoric geoglyphs. Are the images a premonition or do they represent a memory? A momentum of standstill or signs of restart? Contrasted in the exhibition space of Villa Heike, painting becomes a narrative refuge as shelter and the stage of multiple references and geographies

The paintings, graphites and collages developed from 2019 to 2021 will be first shown from 16th June 2022 till 3rd of July 2022 in Berlin at Villa Heike.

 

 

 


installation views at Villa Heike Berlin 2022




 
 
 
 
 



 
 


 


view works and exhibition here 


>  available works

as .pdf via google.drive for download

 
 
 




 
 
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2020 21





concept for a poetic intervention 2020 

at and with the anthropological museum Heidelberg

and its collection at Bootshaus am Neckarmünzplatz 

HI ALTITUDE 2019 21

















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submission for
 
 The Billboard LOS ANGELES 
Creative's Annual Billboard 
Exhibition 2021



















layout / inserted works: © KLAUS HU 2019 21
source photos: courtesy LOS ANGELES 
Creative's Annual Billboard Exhibition 2020










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this is not a retrospective




 
 

 
NAKED SHUTTLE
oil on cotton 150 x 150 cm
© KLAUS HU 1990 / 91
& VG BILD-KUNST BONN
(in private collection)







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2020


ALUMNI EXHIBITION


MIT EIGENEM BLICK





updates and further news >


Ehemalige Student**Inn*en** der früheren Meisterklasse Achim Freyer 
an der Universiät der Künste Berlin 1976–1999

 OPENING: Sunday 2nd FEBRUARY 2020 / 5 PM 
runs till 13th Dec 2020 
closed due to pandemic
 
reopened  
29. August 2021 – 14. Nov 2021
 
at
ACHIM FREYER STIFTUNG KUNSTHAUS
SAMMLUNG | GALERIE
Kadettenweg 53 | 12205 Berlin








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2019


 OPEN STUDIO / DIALOGUE






#dialogues part I



Moving faster than a cloud, slower than a car, silently witnessing landscape within, speaking, like the soft howling of the wind in canyons, or sand dunes in the South West of the US, racing across German highways towards destinations, that are already extistent within ourselves, exploring natures light speed and slow decay. Where will we be heading next, already being there, juxtaposing different perceptions, layered in oil on canvas, or stretched on paper for a dialogue on difference, within sameness? What would nature say, watching us?


MAX DUNLOP is an American painter living in Berlin. His work is about the world we live in, the history of art and the physical act of painting itself. The paintings are about the moment brush stokes become an image, these marks must be assembled within the mind of the viewer. They are pulled into an interaction with the materials and an interaction with the subject matter. http://www.maxdunlopart.com


KLAUS HU works with painting and photography that penetrate and complement each other, questioning representation and its cultural codes. He had been invited for a residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA in 2013 focusing on the Anthropocene in general, and on landscape, mining, uranium mining, water rights and property in the South West of the USA in detail.  The outcome of the studio grant by SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE has been presented at SOMOS in Berlin as solo exhibition in 2015. http://klaushu.blogspot.com








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2019


EARTH, FAIL BIGGER!



Kunst am Bau Wettbewerb Neubau Engler-Bunte-Institut 
Karlsruhe / Germany  
Kunstkommission Baden Württemberg
presentation May 2019 in Stuttgart

















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2018 


invited for research residency 
at Villa Médicis: Académie de France à Rome




WENDOVER LOST I, II
oil on canvas  40 x 55 cm
2018 / 19












CRISPR-CAS 9
oil on canvas  90 x 140 cm
© KLAUS HU 2017 / 18 & VG BILD-KUNST BONN 

The gene editing process CRISPR-CAS 9 may cause mutations, 
due to possible edits of DNA sequences not intended 
and in distance to intended enzyme based slicing location/helix of DNA sequence.

(based on July 2018 scientific news)
 








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THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE AIR


main subjects in the studio based process and for research from 2009/17 are: 

1: A KIND OF BLUE  2016/17 (work series)
strata / geology / genealogy of history / geopolitical input

2: STRIPES 2015/16 (work series)
the digital / the sensual / appropriation 

3: UNSETTLED LANDSCAPES 2013/15 (work series)
landscape / land use / conflicts on resources 

4: MARS_SPIRIT 2009/12 (work series)
escapism / sci-fi and narrative territories





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2017



preview
 A KIND OF BLUE 2016 / 17


 A KIND OF BLUE 2016 / 17







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2017


ALUMNI PAGE AT SFAI
https://sfai.org/alumni/klaus-hu/

BLUE MESA REVIEW / LITERARY MAGAZINE FROM ALBUQUERQUE / 
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO has included one photo of BANDELIER 2013 
in the current issue NO 35 / check it out here: BLUE MESA 35 
Its in dialogue with the essay by Leeanna T. Torres  
"Hózhó" and a ride into Navajo land.
photo BANDELIER II © KLAUS HU 2013 / made possible during residency at Santa Fe Art Institute / New Mexico 2013 / archival pigment print on hahnemuehle / size variable / edition: variable
 
 
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JUXTAPOSITION inside studio 2016











LES HETEROTOPIES I 

oil on canvas 180 x 200 cm © Klaus Hu 2011 / 12





YELLOW JAZZ 

oil on canvas 140 x 240 cm diptych © Klaus Hu 2015 / 16







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Timothy O´Sullivan 1872 / 74
embedded American photographer 
for land surveys towards West


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2 editions on hahnemuehle fine art pearl

SPIRAL JETTY
ACOMA MADRID BANDELIER 2013 / 15
each digital print 21 x 29,7 cm
edition 1/1 

SPIRAL JETTY boxed set / 12 prints
ACOMA MADRID BANDELIER boxed set / 15 prints 















further available: edition 1/1
MARS_SPIRIT, ED 1/1, 2010
18 pigment prints, each 63 x 112 cm
on hahnemuehle fine art pearl






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2015


YALE University radio interview
on UNSETTLED LANDSCAPES
with BRAINARD CAREY & KLAUS HU










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2015


SOLO EXHIBITION 
UNSETTLED LANDSCAPES
at Somos Art Space Berlin
 8 th - 22 nd of May 2015














view works via










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2014


OPEN STUDIO 
FROM 27TH TILL 29TH OF JUNE 2014






poster,  photos, layout © KLAUS HU 2013 / 14
edition of 400








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2013


BOOK  NEW MEXICAN TRAVELS
photographic research made possible during residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, NM, USA

BOOKS & EDITIONS

100 pages / 116 photos / hardcover 






all images © KLAUS HU 2013
additional image rights courtesy Derrick Velasquez
page 57, "Untitled 41, 2012"
and page 56 courtesy Georgia O`Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
& New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe
"The Motorbike of G O K" 




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OPEN STUDIO 
Thursday 25th of April 2013
at SFAI / Santa Fe Art Institute
from 5.30 till 7 PM
Santa Fe, NM, US, 
1600 St Michaels Drive 

ALUMNI PAGE AT SFAI
https://sfai.org/alumni/klaus-hu/


OPEN STUDIO at 28th of March 2013
at SFAI / Santa Fe Art Institute from 5.30 till 7 PM












MARCH / APRIL 2013


SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE RESIDENCY / USA 
 New Mexico 
(specific research and studio based)
Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) was founded in 1985 as an independent educational nonprofit providing unique opportunities for emerging artists to pursue brief, intense periods of study with critically acclaimed visiting artists. In 1999, the Institute moved to its nearly 17,000 square-foot facility and expanded its mission and programming to include explorations at the intersection of contemporary art and society. Bringing together prominent individuals and institutions in the arts, sciences, and humanities, SFAI provides artist residencies, lectures, workshops, publications, exhibitions, and educational outreach programming for an international audience.