PROJECT

UNITE | EXHIBITION  HIMMELS-ACHSE

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SPACE INSTALLATION

"U N I T E" 

 

DCK- German Chinese Society for cultural exchange e.V.

 - house of the cultures of the world -

PRISMA-HAUS

Berlin 1998

 

 

EXHIBITION

"Himmels-Achse""

 

UNITE is an installation of space by means of paintings and architecture based on the intense analysis of the global, European and especially the German contemporary history. The installation is to be understood as a demand for freedom and unification as well as a historical document of the world situation at the end of the 20th century.

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UNTE · 12-sided polyhedron · 170x1600 cm · each 170x125 cm · 1992-1994

Prisma-Haus-Berlin 1998-1999

 

The choice for the form and shape of the project, which is an equilateral polyhedron of 12 pieces, did not occur  spontaneously, but derived from a constant study of the shape of frames in the course of time. Using serially lined up  plates and their  permutation, the artist finally concentrated on the triptych,  which dominated his work from 1986 to 1990.

During an intermediate periode the artist went back to the use of single plates and created relief-like, almost three-dimensional paintings. That was the very beginning of his space installation.

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acryl, synthetic glue, cement, silver leaf, paris oxide, calium sulfuratum, oil chalk on wood

(sponsored by Gert Vitt)

 

Studying the contents of the topic UNITE as described above, first led the artist to a circular construction that was later transformed into a polyhedron. This decision was partly due to practical reasons. The following step was to decide on a convex or a concave painting. 

Using a concave installation the whole painting could be seen in a panorama view, whereas a convex installation reveals only single parts of it. Thus the observer is engaged in a much more active approach by walking, perceiving and viewing. It is the interdependence of the previously seen, the present and the further parts of the painting, which becomes important.

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This situation corresponds exactly to the artist's intention. He evokes "unification" by a partly rhythmic, partly broken, but also diagonally uprising and unifying way of painting. The factors time and space thereby play equal roles. 

The complexity of  reality is moreover shown by the use of different materials and different ways of painting as well as by the use of constructive elements and symbols. In order to give the compact installation  a certain lightness, the object should be suspended from above by means of an aluminium frame construction.

 

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