art berlin 2017
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Today's protagonists Bridget Riley, Frank Stella, Josef Albers as well as Ad Reinhardt with his "invisible paintings" were among the artists, who were discovered and exhibited at that time. Gallery Dierking focuses on two European positions of this legendary New York exhibition at its booth in the Station Berlin: Wolfgang Ludwig (1923 - 2009) and Walter Leblanc (1932 - 1986).
"Straining the eye" through the seemingly
rotating movement of his
(Wolfgang Ludwig's) works
was the explicit intention of the artist
The Belgian ZERO - artist Walter Leblanc already worked from the 1950s with his Relief Sable, Twisted Strings and Torsions between two- and three-dimensionality. By using twisting strings, paper or cardboard strips, he achieves the sensed movement of the static artwork - his special material treatment overcomes the original panel painting with the help of the resulting spatial illusion. Wolfgang Ludwig, who lived in Berlin, concentrated from 1963 on his group of works called Kinematic Disks - precise radial, equi-radial, mostly circular systems in black and white. "Straining the eye" through the seemingly rotating movement of his works was the explicit intention of the artist, whose very small oeuvre came to an abrupt end at the early 1970s due to a hand disease.
The connection to the present is made with the third contemporary position: Otto Boll (*1952), who studied in Münster as a student of Ernst Hermanns, manages to challenge the eye of the beholder in a special way with his spatial sculptures made of blackened steel that taper to zero point - with graceful lightness his helix sculptures stand in space and manage to redefine it. Especially his filigree floating sculptures seem "like strokes and arcs drawn into the space". The artworks by Walter Leblanc, Wolfgang Ludwig, and Otto Boll pay tribute not only to the groundbreaking New York exhibition, but also to the art that, influenced by it, continues to confront the viewer in its own unique way today.
art berlin 2017
-
"Straining the eye" through the seemingly
rotating movement of his
(Wolfgang Ludwig's) works
was the explicit intention of the artist
Today's protagonists Bridget Riley, Frank Stella, Josef Albers as well as Ad Reinhardt with his "invisible paintings" were among the artists, who were discovered and exhibited at that time. Gallery Dierking focuses on two European positions of this legendary New York exhibition at its booth in the Station Berlin: Wolfgang Ludwig (1923 - 2009) and Walter Leblanc (1932 - 1986).
The Belgian ZERO - artist Walter Leblanc already worked from the 1950s with his Relief Sable, Twisted Strings and Torsions between two- and three-dimensionality. By using twisting strings, paper or cardboard strips, he achieves the sensed movement of the static artwork - his special material treatment overcomes the original panel painting with the help of the resulting spatial illusion. Wolfgang Ludwig, who lived in Berlin, concentrated from 1963 on his group of works called Kinematic Disks - precise radial, equi-radial, mostly circular systems in black and white. "Straining the eye" through the seemingly rotating movement of his works was the explicit intention of the artist, whose very small oeuvre came to an abrupt end at the early 1970s due to a hand disease.
The connection to the present is made with the third contemporary position: Otto Boll (*1952), who studied in Münster as a student of Ernst Hermanns, manages to challenge the eye of the beholder in a special way with his spatial sculptures made of blackened steel that taper to zero point - with graceful lightness his helix sculptures stand in space and manage to redefine it. Especially his filigree floating sculptures seem "like strokes and arcs drawn into the space". The artworks by Walter Leblanc, Wolfgang Ludwig, and Otto Boll pay tribute not only to the groundbreaking New York exhibition, but also to the art that, influenced by it, continues to confront the viewer in its own unique way today.
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