Emmanuel Thomas, DPA, Saturday, June 24, 2023
HAMBURG – A Swiss artist Rolf Sachs, who likes to use everyday objects for his art is opening his exhibition “Eingemachtes” (Preserves/Reserves) in the northern German city of Hamburg on Friday evening.
“I have a great love for objects – utilitarian objects that we remember from our childhood, that have no design, they just have a purpose design,” said the 67-year-old.
The artist’s exhibits, which all revolve around the theme of light – such as hanging buckets converted into lampshades – can be seen at the Watson Gallery in Hamburg until September 23 this year.
The launch of the art exhibition on Friday evening was also attended by prominent guests such as former national football player Günter Netzer and his wife Elvira.
“We’ve been following his development since childhood,” said the 78-year-old Netzer about the connection to Rolf Sachs, “for as long as we’ve known him and the Sachs family, too.”
Rolf Sachs’ father – the former photographer and art collector Gunter Sachs, once known as a playboy – owned a gallery not far from his son’s exhibition, the Watson Gallery said.
In 1972, he showed the first European exhibition with works by Andy Warhol there, it said.
