Gallery of the University of Applied Sciences FH Potsdam
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 6
Left: Sol LeWitt, Open Cube, 1968
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, National Galerie / Marzona Collection
Centre: Tim Ayres, A spire (for W. G.), 2002/03 and Crepuscular, 2003
Courtesy of the artist & VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam
Right: As you wish, wall painting by Jarosław Fliciński
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Foreground: Sol LeWitt, Open Cube, 1968
Lacquered aluminium, 105 x 105 x 105 cm
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, National Galerie / Marzona Collection
Background: Tim Ayres, Crepuscular, 2003
Industrial paints and varnish on MDF panel, 150 x 260 cm
and A spire (for W. G.), 2002/03
Industrial paints and varnish on MDF panel, 225.5 x 130 cm
Courtesy of the artist & VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Left: Pedro Cabrita Reis, Compound #7, 2006
Steel, 225 cm x 125 cm x 75 cm
Right: Jarosław Fliciński, As you wish, 2006
Acrylic paint on wooden construction, 380 x 420 x 50 cm
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Left: Pedro Cabrita Reis, Compound #7, 2006
Steel, 225 cm x 125 cm x 75 cm
Centre: Gerold Miller, instant vision 7, 2005
Laquered aluminium, 280 x 280 x 15 cm (3 parts)
Courtesy Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Right: Gerold Miller, poster installation, 2006
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Gerold Miller
Left: instant vision 7, 2005
Laquered aluminium, 280 x 280 x 15 cm (3 parts)
Right: poster installation, 2006
Courtesy Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Foreground: Sol LeWitt, Open Cube, 1968
Lacquered aluminium, 105 x 105 x 105 cm
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, National Galerie / Sammlung Marzona
Background: Gerold Miller, poster Installation, 2006
Courtesy Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Photo: Carsten Hensel, Potsdam
George Hadjimichalis, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 2006
Video, loop
Courtesy the artist
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Jakob Kolding
Background: Posters, 2003
Offset prints, Edition 700, 260,4 x 173,1 cm
Courtesy of the artist & centre d'édition contemporaine
Front: Untitled, 2001/2006
Poster stacks German & English, each poster 84 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist & Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Installation views of the Kolding poster in Potsdam
Left: Brian O'Connell, Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol Lewitt
According to the Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll
as played by Brian O'Connell, 2004
35 drawings, 8 inkjet prints, 38 x 30.5 cm each
Private collection Berlin
Right: Carl Andre, Eighth Reversed Steel Corner, 1978
36 parts, steel, 50 x 50 x 0.5 cm each
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, National Galerie / Marzona Collection
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
The third thematic focus is devoted explicitly to the grid - an homage
'against all odds' to the right angle. Works of younger artists enter into a dialogue
with sculptural works of two pioneers of Minimal Art, Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre.
The tradition of constructive and concrete art is closely connected
to the 'Ideal City' in the history of ideas. These connections are investigated
above all in works by artists who are coming to terms in a playful
and critical way with the tradition of geometric modernism.
Gerold Miller places his precisely built geometrical wall objects
on an ironical poster installation. In Tim Ayres' Grid Paintings,
the grid is disassembled by all available means, and yet it remains
constitutive of the proportions of his paintings. Sentences on Conceptual Art
by Sol LeWitt According to the Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll as played
by Brian O'Connell should also be seen as a playful reference
to Minimal Art. Jakob Kolding employs a collage technique which
builds on constructivist book and poster design. They are however loaded
with contemporary form and content. In his wall painting, Jarosław Fliciński
contraposes rigid grid structures with dynamic circular forms.
Stern, almost brutal is Pedro Cabrita Reis' steel sculpture Compound
which departs in its intended irregularity and rawness from
the dictatorship of the right angle.
Further information on Carl Andre, Tim Ayres, Brian O'Connell,
Pedro Cabrita Reis, Jarosław Fliciński, George Hadjimichalis,
Site specific installations in the same building complex:
Daniela Brahm, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Jarosław Fliciński,
Jacob Kolding, Lucas Lenglet, Monika Sosnowska, Lawrence Weiner
