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Beat Zoderer:
Homage an das unreine Quadrat, 2007
(c) VG- Bildkunst, Bonn 2007
69-part wall installation, 504 x 567 cm
Verschachtelung Nr. 1, 1998 (c) VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2007
paint on wood on canvas, 205x197x17 cm
Departement I-VII, 1993 (c) VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2007
document files, 7-part work, each 62x62 cm
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Beat Zoderer is no stranger to materials that are unexpected for the simple reason that they are everyday. The Swiss artist generally uses materials that are from hardware stores, household goods, or office supplies. By and large they are based on elementary geometrical forms that he decontextualizes and gives a new definition as part of the art system. The wall sculpture »Department I-VII« consisting of document files in a variety of colours comes from the series of works he did with office supplies in the 1990s, and is presented here for the first time among the new acquisitions. Zoderer has been a friend of the museum for quite a while, and the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection now has five of his works. Number five is a multipartite wall installation created specially for the exhibition: »Homage to the Impure Square«. A freestanding, almost square wall acts as the carrier medium for the 70 almost-squares, every one of them a rectangle, with which the artist puts our visual powers to the test. Zoderer presents us with a trial set-up for making fine distinctions, because the picture panels have been painted in eight different shades of white on eight different materials, each with its own surface structure, and each hung in its own different way on the wall in truly Baroque order. Characteristic of Zoderer’s art is his rational and constructivist approach, which only becomes evident, though, on second glance when the viewer takes in the ironic title and the unconventional materials that he has used.
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