Synopses & Reviews
What is a picture? How does a picture relate to the wall, to space, to architecture? German artist Gerold Miller has devoted himself for about fifteen years to the question of "pictoral quality," creating a border territory of sculpture and painting. Deriving from Concrete Art and Minimal Art, Millers frame pictures are purely counter-illusionistic and counter-representational. Organized spatially, they gain signi-ficance in relation to the different spaces around them, for example in the empty space of a museum.
The book accompanies an exhi-bition of the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. (2002)
The Daimler-Chrysler Collection presents Gerold Miller’s works at large, and will be on display in the Detroit Institute of Arts from November 7, 2003–January 18, 2004.
Synopsis
Gerold Miller eliminates traditional artistic categories, creating space for the viewers personal reflections. He experiments with a new definition of our visual perception of two-dimensional painting and sculpture. His subtle yet impressive works seem to float between the one and the other, his installations are both at he same time.
Synopsis
Questions our perception of reality and challenges the seemingly simple definition of what a picture is.
About the Author
Studies of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Jürgen Brodwolf. Grant from the DAAD for Chicago. Artist-In-Residence in Chicago and New York. Received the International Bodensee-Kultur-Preis (2001), solo exhibition at the "Hamburger Bahnhof", Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2002). Exhibitions in the US for 2003/2004 are in preparation.