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Jürgen Paas:
"Mathematical Clarity and Tangible Chaos" |
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| Central to the works of Jürgen Paas is the fundamental idea of the archive and the depot. Ever since 1995 he has developed his colour archives, which contain up to 250 metal panels in varying sizes placed in racks. The individual panels have been coated monochromatically in different colours, and fitted with zinc-plated clips for mounting purposes, which have the neutral air of industrial assembly elements. |
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Paas’ works triggers a wide range of associations that embrace the entire field of art: collecting, conserving, presenting, and storing – either on the medium or the long term ... The point of departure for his works is, however, above all an open system of painting that explores individual aspects such as colour, form and space. There is no pre-designated arrangement or order for the coloured panels; in theory they can be constantly swapped around to produce a potentially enormous number of colour combinations. In formal terms Paas draws on elements found in Minimal Art – he produces rectangles, squares and cubes and places these in a relationship to the surrounding space. But he does not proceed like the minimalists according to a pre-ordained scheme that is constantly repeated, but combines system and order with a freedom from rules that manifests in an extremely variable kind of “material painting”. More recently the circle has also entered the artist’s grammar of forms. A number of circles painted in various colours on the wall create a dialogue with the archival mounting systems and square colour panels on or beside the wall. The regular geometrical forms of the circle and the square convey a mathematical clarity, while their interactions suggest movement and chaos and open out a broad and emotionally satisfying spectrum of colours for the observer.
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Biography
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1958
1981–87
1991–92
1992
2002/03
2006
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born in Krefeld
Lives and works in Essen, studied at the Hochschule Essen
Studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts under Jan Voss in Paris
Ursula Blickle Foundation Prize, Kraichtal
Visiting Professor of Painting at the Institut für Kunst and Kunsttheorie at the University of Cologne
Sickingen, Artprize of Landkreis Kaiserslautern
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