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| Spatial installation by Heinz Gappmayr: "Von Bild zu Bild", 2008 |
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The Austrian concept artist Heinz Gappmayr has hung a wide selection of works from the collection in his space, but only in a seemingly well-ordered way.
Choosing the pictures for one single room from the wide range of works in the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection raises a number of principal questions. It is not a matter here of arranging works chronologically or giving a historical overview of Concrete Art.
His concept was to select works that “cannot readily be compared”. While art historians like to detect similarities and kinship between works, this artist has set out to do the exact opposite: he has chosen works that differ strongly and deliberately placed them together. These differences isolate the works from one another and in that way highlight their individuality even more.
The sequence used for the works here revolves around the independence of the individual pieces, such that the viewer will constantly be confronted by a new picture concept that contrasts with that of the other pictures. In this way the individual work no longer appears to be one variation of a single collective art programme, as just one of many possible versions, but as a unique picture with its own premises.
Five works by Heinz Gappmayr are on show - which happen to be the latest acquisition by the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection. The artist has worked since the early 1960s at the transition point between language and the visual arts. His artistic vocabulary consists of letters, verbal concepts, numbers and simple graphic and geometrical signs. The author Ferdinand Schmatz describes the artist’s aims very aptly when he writes: “Wherever Gappmayr makes one look, thoughts appear and return to the viewer as understanding.”
Excerpt from catalogue texts by Heinz Gappmayr and Gerda Ridler
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Works in the exhibition:
All works in the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection
Heinz Gappmayr
Quadrat, 1983 /92
Heinz Gappmayr
ist, wird, 1997
Heinz Gappmayr
Leere, 2004
Heinz Gappmayr
Zeit, 2002
Heinz Gappmayr
Quadrat, 1986
Josef Albers
Rarefied, 1964
Max Bill
o.T., 1972/73
Hartmut Böhm
Quadrat-Relief, 1967
Antonio Calderara
Attrazione quadrata, 1963
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Physiochromie 1455, 2006
Karl Duschek
Codierung mit Quadraten, 1972
Adolf Fleischmann
o.T., 1943
Otto Freundlich
Composition, 1935/36
Hans Jörg Glattfelder
Permutation aus 4 x 4 virtuellen Farbkörpern, 1984
Hermann Glöckner
Lineare Konstruktion von der Fläche zum Raum, 1957
Kuno Gonschior
o.T., 1971/73
Werner Graeff
Stijl 2 L, 1959
Camille Graeser
Sieben Betonungen (4: :5)
Gottfried Honegger
Etude, 1985
Vilmos Huszár
o.T., 1918
Johannes Itten
Leuchtendes Rot, 1955
Rudolf Jahns
Blatt aus der «Blauen Mappe«(5/50), Siebdruck nach »Spiel« von 1928, 1973
Raimer Jochims
Josef Albers, 1972
Imi Knoebel
Odyshape III, 1994
Richard Paul Lohse
o.T. (grün aus gelb und blau), 1955/72
François Morellet
40.000 carrés 50% rouge clair 50% bleu clair, 1962
Alexander Rodtschenko
Cinzano. Sainte Russie, um 1920
Peter Roehr
o.T. (TY 1 ), 1965
Günther Uecker
Diagonale Struktur, 1975
Victor Vasarely
Onyx-1, 1966
Luigi Veronesi
o.T., 1937
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
Composition No. 188, 1952
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