Tour New Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart Untertürkheim
Stéphane Dafflon
(*1972 Neyruz, CH, lives in Paris, F, and Lausanne, CH)
PM047, 2006
Wall painting, acrylic, 6.31 x 30.34 m
Mercedes-Benz Center, rear working area
Collection Daimler
Stéphane Dafflon is one of a generation of young artists whose non-representational formal vocabulary relates to historic positions within abstract geometrical art. The artist links these models with the universal repertoire of signs and codes from the sphere of visual culture and with questions relating to architecture, or to spatial matters.
Dafflon made his name with his large-format wall paintings, whose repetitive patterns are drawn above all from the production methods and aesthetics of graphic or industrial design.
For the Mercedes-Benz Center, the artist conceived his hitherto largest wall painting, based on a sequence of ten colors, from blue via green and yellow to red, and developing as a kind of sculptural rainbow. The sequence of colors is arranged in mirror image, with the individual stripes designed as long, voluminous ovals. The position in the upper part of the wall reflects the use of the place by relating to the continuous line of windows in the staff canteen opposite. From there viewers can enrich the abstract band of color with individual associations and natural images.
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