An Artist Talks with Rupi Wegener, 27.01.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles.

Rupi  Wegener is a Trash Artist that has been working for a long time in the Underground Artist scene.

He builds and constructs beautiful collage paintings, that shine as if they were made with precious materials, but are in fact collected from  the streets of Berlin. These findings are saved and put away until they find their place into composition well balanced, mostly figurative works but neverless full of mystery.

He also has a great talent for sculpture and brought a beautiful cat made from metal objects, old screws from trains and from an old hook. The  sculpture gives suprisingly the impression of lightness and fragile, that is in contrast with the material, that has become red from the rust, and the strength of the metal.

There is a real poetical dimension in his constructions that  transport far away from the first identity of the objetcs used.

You can see one of his collage paintings in the Werkshau from the Kunsthaus Tacheles, neue Gallery 12.02.2011 till 13.03.2011, 4th floor right.