CONTEMPORARY ART - LAND ART

English GERRY JOE WEISE born in Australia, is a contemporary
artist, painter, photographer, guitarist & vocalist with 4 albums. His
works of art can be seen in different galleries, culture centres and
museums in New York, Paris, Bonn, Munich, Brussels,
Montreux and Adelaide.

Français GERRY JOE WEISE un artiste contemporain, peintre,
photographe, guitariste chanteur accompli avec 4 albums, né en
Australie, dont on peut découvrir ses oeuvres dans plusieurs
galeries, centres culturels et musées à New York, Paris, Bonn,
Munich, Brussels, Montreux ou Adelaide.

GERRY JOE WEISE Bio

English (anglais)

GERRY JOE WEISE was born in 1959 in Sydney, Australia. Where in this immense country he took his first steps to becoming a painter. As with many Australian artists, Weise chose to exile himself and gather experiences in Europe, the old continent. That is where his artistic career began, with several exhibitions in Paris, Toulouse, Bonn, Munich and Brussels, during the 1980s.

TECHNIQUE. Gerry Joe Weise doesn't limit himself to only one technique. His artwork uses natural materials like pigments, bark, earth, wood, metal, slate; and other techniques like photography, collage, and engraving photographic negatives to create imaginary constellations.

RITUAL - GROUND PAINTINGS. His works of art exist beyond earthly boundaries and beyond all limits. One must have primordial knowledge about Ritual Art to measure the abundance of Gerry Joe Weise's artwork. That is the ritualist formation behind the spirals, where ritualism is well traced-out with the ritualistic ground schemas created with pigments on earth. The longer you look, the more it becomes clear that the quest for a ritual, is also the quest for order, way beyond the chaos.

The COLLAGES use a variety of techniques. Landscapes can be looked at from a 2 dimensional to a 3 dimensional view. This theme is trying to obtain a 4th dimensional aspect, the "inner-soul" of the landscape.

The most significant characteristic of Weise's PHOTOGRAPHY, is its anti-gravitational aspect, and its overwhelming scale in thickness of vegetation, where silence and cacophony simultaneously carve through the dense air.

En français (french)

GERRY JOE WEISE est né en 1959 à Sydney en Australie. C'est dans cet immense pays qu'il fait ses premiers pas en peinture. Comme beaucoup d'artistes australiens, Weise choisit l'exil, pour récolter les expériences sur le vieux continent, l'Europe. C'est là que commence véritablement sa carrière, dans les années 80, tout en multipliant les expositions à Paris, Toulouse, Bonn, Munich ou Bruxelles.

TECHNIQUE. Gerry Joe Weise ne se limite pas à une seule technique. Son travail utilise à la fois des matériaux naturels comme les pigments, l'écorce, la terre, le bois, le métal, l'ardoise, et des techniques telles que la photographie, le collage, et la pellicule photographique pour y graver des constellations imaginaires.

RITUEL - PIGMENTS SUR TERRE. Son art existe en dehors de toutes limites, de toutes frontières terrestres. Une connaissance de l'Art rituel est primordiale pour mesurer l'ampleur de l'oeuvre de Gerry Joe Weise. Voilà bien la formation ritualiste des spirales. Le ritualiste suit des chemins tout tracés : les schèmas ritualistes sur les sols, confectionnés avec des empreintes des pigments sur terre. Plus vous les regardez, plus il devient clair que cette quête du rituel est une autre manifestation de la quête d'un ordre, en deçà et au-delà du chaos.

Les COLLAGES emploient une variété de techniques du montage. Des paysages peuvent être regardés des 2 dimensionnels à une vue 3 dimensionnelle. Le thème essaye d'obtenir un aspect 4 dimensionnel, l'intérieur - âme du paysage.

La caractéristique la plus significative de la PHOTOGRAPHIE de Weise, est son aspect anti-de la gravité, et l'épaisseur de la végétation, où comme silence est cacophonie découpez simultanément par l'air dense.

2009 Listening Series

Gerry Joe Weise, DO NOT BURN, mixed media, 1012x442cm, 2009

2007 Junction Gallery NYC, USA.

"Bushfire I", collage, 115x200cm, 2007.

"Bushfire II", collage, 140x180cm, 2007.

"Nature Wide" Exhibition in New York City.

2007 Artist's Space NYC, USA.

"Wood Installation I", approx 3m, 2007.

"Wood Installation II", approx 3m, 2007.

"Where To Now ?" Installation Exhibition in New York City.

2006 Jam Factory Adelaide, Australia.

"Rock On", cibachrome, 170 x 170cm, 2005/2006,

"Listen To Wood", cibachrome, 170 x 170cm, 2005/2006.

"Voodoo Nature", cibachrome, 165x175cm, 2005/2006.

"Blue Wild Angel", cibachrome, 185x175cm, 2005/2006.

"Nightscapes" Exhibition in Adelaide.

2005 Brassac Sculpture Park, France.

Installation, mixed media, 2005.

"New Realities" Installation in Brassac.

2004 Lac Du Merle, France.

Installation, pigments on earth, 2004.

"Nature Nature" Installation in Lac du Merle.

2002 Culture Centre Les Salvages, France.

Gerry Joe Weise creating the installation during the show-opening.

"Ground Painting", pigments on earth, 5m, 2002.

"Ground Painting", pigments on earth, 5m, 2002.

"Earth Spirit" Installation Exhibition in Les Salvages.

1990 Rimbaud Museum Charleville-Mezieres, France.

Installation view, pigments, feathers, cotton, wood, approx 2m, 1990.

Installation view, Rimbaud Museum, Charleville-Mezieres, 1990.

"Ground Painting", pigments on earth, 5m, 1990.

"Ground Painting", pigments on earth, 5m, 1990.

"The Sacred - Looking Up" Installation Exhibition in Charleville-Mezieres.

1989 Ocre d'Art Culture Centre Chateauroux, France.

Installation, mixed media, 10m, 1989.

Gerry Joe Weise creating the "Ground Painting" Installation.
Pigments on earth, 350cm, 1989.

"Ground Painting" pigments on earth, 350cm, 1989.

"Earth Music" Installation Exhibition in Chateauroux.

1989 Sculpture Park Tinos Island, Greece.

Installation, granite, approx 15m, 1989.

"Installation THNO", Tinos Island, Greece.

1987 CROUS Culture Centre Reims, France.

CROUS Culture Centre, main installation view, Reims, 1987.

Carpet Paintings, mixed media, 4m height x 3m wide x 5m long. CROUS Culture Centre, Reims, 1987.

Air Chamber, mixed media, 4m height, 3m x 3m wide. CROUS Culture Centre, Reims, 1987.

Earth Chamber, mixed media, 4m height, 3m x 3m wide. CROUS Culture Centre, Reims, 1987.

"Transmythic Installation", mixed media, approx 12m, 1987.

"Ground Painting", pigments on earth, 5m, 1987.

"Transmythic Earth" Installation Exhibition in Reims.

Installations in the Henri IV Atelier n°2, Reims, France.

Installations in the Henri IV Atelier n°2, Reims.
Mixed media, in the basement, old chalk Champagne cellar, 1987.

1987 Australian Embassy Paris, France.

"Bark Paintings", acrylic on bark & wood, approx 5m, 1987.

"Transmythic" Installation Exhibition in Paris.

CURRICULUM VITAE

GERRY JOE WEISE

Born in 1959 in Sydney, Australia.
Has lived in Australia, France, Germany, Switzerland and U.S.A.
Collections in Museums, private & public collections.

Solo exhibitions (expositions personnelles)

1985 -Galerie La Grande Serre, Rouen, France.
1986 -Centre Culturel Les Archers, Cambrai, Fr.
1986 -Centre Culturel, Gaillon, Fr.
1987 -"Transmythic Earth" Exhibitions:
...............Australian Embassy, Paris, Fr
...............Centre Culturel du CROUS, Reims, Fr
...............Espace AGF, Reims
...............Restaurant VO, Reims
...............Café du Palais, Reims.
1988 -Australian Embassy, Bonn, Germany.
1988 -Australian Embassy, Brussels, Belgium.
1988 -"Earth Church" Installations:
...............Basilique St Denis, Paris
...............Basilique St Rémi, Reims
...............Eglise Viels St Remy, Fr
...............Eglise Neuvizy, Fr.
1989 -Centre Culturel Espace 13, Paris.
1989 -"Earth Music" Centre Culturel Ocre d'Art, Châteauroux, Fr.
1989 -Espace Trésor; Reims.
1990 -"The Sacred - Looking Up" Musée Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières, Fr.
90/91 -Expositions "Le Chant des Roches":
...............Les Loges, Reims
...............Station Radio 93FM, Reims
...............Espace AGF, Reims.
1991 -"Underworld Earth Works", BK Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany.
1993 -"Earth Spiral", CAC, Brussels, Belgium.
94/95 -"L'Utopie", Centre Culturel Ancien College, Sezanne, Fr.
1997 -"Earth Painting", CCA, Munich, Germany.
1998 -LB Art Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland.
2000 -Galerie Jiwini, Albi, Fr.
00/01 -Galerie Out Of Australia, Toulouse, Fr.
2002 -"Earth Spirit", Centre Culturel, Les Salvages, Fr.
2005 -"Distorted Nature", Ancien Temple, Lacaze, Fr.
2006 -"Nightscapes", Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia.
2007 -"Nature Wide", Junction Gallery, NYC, USA.

2008 -"New Real Nature", Culture Centre, Buchholz IdN, Germany.

Group exhibitions (expositions collectives)

82/84 -Schlosspavillon Gallery, Munich, Germany.
1987 -"Grande Prix de France des Arts Plastiques", Ancien College, Reims.
87/88 -"Rituel Commun / Common Ritual" Exhibitions:
...............Australian Embassy, Paris
...............Galerie La Lisiere, Reims
...............Galerie Clin d'Oeil, Toulouse.
1988 -"Grandeur Nature", SABC Centre d'Arts Plastiques, Clamart, Paris.
1989 -"Installation THNO" Sculpture Park, Tinos Island, Greece.
1992 -"Sun Earth", Centre Culturel Co-Temporaire, Troyes, Fr.
93/98 -Galerie Ligne Roset, Reims.
2000 -Parc des Expositions, Caen, Fr.
2000 -"Art Passions", Galerie d'Art, Boissezon, Fr.
2001 -"L'Esprit de la Terre", CCI, Castres, Fr.
2002 -"L'Esprit de la Terre", Centre Culturel, Les Salvages, Fr.
2003 -"L'Esprit de la Terre", Château, Hôtel de Vile, Brassac, Fr.
2004 -"Nature Nature", Lac du Merle, Fr.
2005 -"Installations", Sculpture Park, Brassac.
06/07 -Galerie Ligne Roset, Reims.
2007 -"Where To Now ?", Artist's Space, NYC, USA.

2009 -"L'Esprit de la Terre", Conservatoire, Laon, Fr.

GERRY JOE WESE : BIBLIOGRAPHY - BIBLIOGRAPHIE

- 1986 Oct, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - Mythorythmique", Centre Culturel Les Archers Cambrai, édition Les Archers Cambrai, Fr.
- 1987 Sept/Oct, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise", Centre Culturel du CROUS Reims, édition Antigone Reims, Fr.
- 1987 Dec, magazine, Artension N°1, "Gerry Joe Weise au CROUS" by Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Paris, Fr.
- 1988 Feb, magazine, Artension N°2, "Rituel Commun / Common Ritual - Gerry Joe Weise & Jon Cockburn" by Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Paris Fr.
- 1988 May, livre de poche, Flache N°1 "Michel Butor", édition Musée Bibliothèque Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières Fr.
- 1988 May, catalogue, "Grandeur Nature", Centre d'Arts Plastiques Clamart Paris, édition SBAC Paris Fr.
- 1988 Sept/Oct, magazine, Art Line, "Australian Artists in Paris" by Andrew Nuti, AGP Press London England.
- 1989 Feb/March, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - Music", Centre Culturel Chateauroux, édition Ocre d'Art Chateauroux Fr.
- 1990 Jan/Feb, magazine, Artension N°13, "Gerry Joe Weise" by Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Paris Fr.
- 1990 Feb/April, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - The Sacred", Galerie Contemporaine Musée Rimbaud Charleville-Mézières, édition Musée Rimbaud Charleville-Mézières Fr.
- 1990 June/August, magazine, Marges N°2, "Aparté - Gerry Joe Weise - Sauver l'infini" by Alexandre Ban & Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, édition Ad Hominem Reims Fr.
- 1991 Jan, magazine, Artension N°20, "Gerry Joe Weise - Le Chant des Roches" by Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Paris Fr.
- 1991 April/June, magazine, Marges N°3, "Peintres Du Monde" by Gerry Joe Weise, édition Ad Hominem Reims Fr.
- 1991 Nov/Dec, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - l'Utopie", Espace AGF Reims, édition AGF Fr.
- 1993 April, magazine, CAC Mag, "Gerry Joe Weise - Earth Spiral", édition CAC, Brussels Belgium.
- 1997 Jan/Feb, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - Earth Painting", CCA Munich, Germany.
- 1999 Nov/Dec, catalogue, "Aboriginal Art - the Ol' Fellas" par Gerry Joe Weise, Gallery Press Melboune Australia.
- 2006 Feb, magazine, "Nightscapes - Gerry Joe Weise", Jam Factory Adelaide, JF editions Adelaide Australia.
- 2007 Oct, catalogue, "Where To Now", Artists Space New York, Art Now editions NY USA.
- 2007 Oct/Nov, magazine, Art Zac N°72, "Where To Now Artists" by David Kellner, Art Zac editions NY USA.
- 2007 Nov, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - Nature Wide", Junction Gallery NYC, Zart Press NY USA.
- 2007 Dec/Jan, magazine Art Zac N°73, "Gerry Joe Weise and Nature Art" by David Kellner and Catherine Defrisco, Art Zac NY USA.