MINIMALISM AND AFTER II
New Aquisitions
John M Armleder, Richard Artschwager, Wolfgang Berkowski, Stephen Bram, Daniel Buren, Ian Burn, Hanne Darboven, Gene Davis, Hermann Glöckner, Benoit Gollety, Katharina Grosse, Esther Hiepler, Sol LeWitt, John McLaughlin, Olivier Mosset, David Novros, Charlotte Posenenske, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Henryk Stazewski, Katja Strunz, Michael Zahn.
Daimler Contemporary
February 14
- May 18, 2003
new opening hours:
daily 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Katharina Grosse
*1961 in Freiburg, D, lives in Düsseldorf, DUntitled, 2001
4 works, acrylic on aluminium
Since 2001 Katharina Grosse works on spray paintings made up of lines, as traces of movement. The explosive force of the earlier spray pictures, their expressive gesture, is distilled here into a controlled act of painting. This group of works is reminiscent of Sol LeWitt's wall paintings, which formalize the line of the paintbrush using drawn-out lines and mechanize the act of painting. In the process of creating a picture, Grosse tries to reduce her personal presence to a minimum and to place the physical, material, and technical elements in the foreground.
Her work has a neutral quality that deliberately develops beyond any sense of content. Grosse creates pure, objective works of art by not excluding art-inherent questions from her work completely. Only the selection and combination of colors have subjective criteria applied to them. Her conceptual form of Minimalism does not relate to the visual appearance of the work of art, but to the method, in which process and result are indissolubly linked.