EMILIA NEUMANN & URBAN HÜTER
STIGMA AND STYLUS
Emilia Neumann deals with the fundamental questions of sculpture and brings them into the present: the focus is on the relationship between form, color, surface, space and time, always in relation to the viewer. Her works display an exciting diversity. Through the use of industrial forms and their translation into original artistic objects cast in plaster or concrete, her works offer a breeding ground for subjective and associative attributions through their color and formal structure. Furthermore, they call for a reciprocal confrontation between original and imprint, movement and rigidity, surface and depth and, last but not least, fragment and whole. From breaking up prefabricated forms to individual artistic gestures, Emilia Neumann's work combines a fundamental examination of the objects of our everyday lives and their artistic transformation.
Urban Hüter exclusively uses industrially produced objects and anthropogenic materials such as plastics, copper and aluminum.
The artist sees these things as the raw materials for his artistic practice. For him, they do not represent an actual state of affairs but instead an extremely promising repository, full of both iconographic and social information. By shaping, taking apart and rearranging, working or mixing together various items the artist creates the kind of autonomous entities that are to be encountered throughout his oeuvre. In his treatment of found objects, Hüter combines items from his own mind’s repertoire of images and shapes with his physical treatment of specific items in order to create something new. In so doing he does not entirely lose sight of this original shape – its origins remain tangible in a kind of formal reminiscence – and yet it acquires new connotations, a connection with a cultural or iconic image, without making an unequivocal attribution possible.
Exhibition duration: 27.07. - 12.10.2024