Seven Pieces for One Space

Andreas Schmid
Peter Haimerl
Philippe Parreno
Are You Meaning Company
Katja Davar
Auke de Vries

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Andreas Schmid

The artistic approach of Andreas Schmid (*1955, Berlin/D) is a situative and temporary one. He works on existing spaces as transitory places between external and internal perception, which develop as the onlooker moves in space.

Partitur for DCC, 2002
16 beats for 16 vertical lights
Technik: SØRENSEN Produktentwicklung

For the interpretation of 'latent' spaces, he primarily uses lines which are tautened or bonded, drawn, painted, cut, photographed or laid. Schmid: "I react first mentally and visually and only then actively to a space and its major features and in a way I reinforce its characteristics which I have perceived and processed. Andreas Schmid has developed a draughtsman's atmospheric overall concept for the central exhibition area, in a close dialogue with the composer Isabel Mundry. He picks up the various qualities of the space and makes them more precise: the relationship between internal and external space, perspective dynamics and formal unity, light and shade, dull and reflecting surfaces etc.

Andreas Schmid, Shanghai Red, Photography; 1998

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