Vis-à-Vis with Adolf Fleischmann: Hartmut Böhm and Andreas Schmid, 30 Apr 2016 — 06 Nov 2016
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Vis-à-Vis with Adolf Fleischmann: Hartmut Böhm and Andreas Schmid

The Daimler Contemporary is simultaneously holding exhibitions by two artists who both have biographical roots in Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg, and are also known for artworks produced in the USA: Adolf Fleischmann and Dieter Blum.

In the context of the Adolf Fleischmann retrospective, we will also be presenting commissioned artworks, created for the Daimler Art Collection by Hartmut Böhm and Andreas Schmid.

Andreas Schmid, Lichtungen (Clearings), 2009

We will be exhibiting Andreas Schmid’s light stelae installation in dialogue with Fleischmann’s artworks: the vibration of the colors in Fleischmann’s artworks finds an answering echo in the spatial-temporal movement of the colored lights in Schmid’s artwork. The artworks by Andreas Schmid are informed both by their locations and by the passage of time. The temporary spaces he creates allow their visitors’ external perception to segue into proprioception as they move through the rooms, discovering their transitory nature. Entering into a dialog with the positions taken by painters in the 1960s, Schmid modifies architectural, transitional rooms to become slowly changing drawings of light in space. A computer program modulates the coloring and intensity of the columns of light in a gentle rhythm. The drawings of light that Andreas Schmid creates in space thus open up another, separate space in which a patient observer will be able to observe the slow pulse of change – a space for visual exploration and Meditation.

Hartmut Böhm, or-or, 2016

Hartmut Böhm, who was born in Kassel in 1938, has been creating artworks at the interfaces between Concrete Art, minimal art and conceptual art for five decades now. Many of his sculptures and objects are characterized by the terms ‘seriality’, ‘relief’ and ‘progression’, which connects him with the oeuvre of Adolf Fleischmann. These are sculptural-aesthetic concepts whose differentiated scale systems oppose the disorder of the world, confronting it with an ethos in which the will is directed towards the disciplined finding of form, in a manner that is both intellectual and in harmony with the working materials. Hartmut Böhm first conceived the idea for his new group of artworks – the table piece group – in 2013. These are arrangements of found objects from the studio – drawing apparatus, working materials, working tools, adhesive tape rolls, index card boxes, invitation cards, and brochures – on simple tables, arrangements in which the individual object becomes part of a formally developed vocabulary, a visually composed Arrangement.

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