‘Ich bin zwischen meinen Ichs’ is a sentence taken from Bernd Lohaus’ book für. It sums up beautifully what the late great German artist stands for: he – and by extension we all – are constantly drifting between the multiple facets our character is made up of. Laurence Petrone, freshly graduated from the sculpture department at the Antwerp Academy and a great admirer of Bernd Lohaus’ oeuvre, suggested the quote to us as a title when we asked her to take part in our opening show of the season.
Erik Haemers, who likes mixing analog and digital and switching between them, exploring the possibilities of industrial technology, is the second artist we invited. When it turned out that he is equally fond of Lohaus’ work, we decided to put together an exhibition centred around and inspired by Lohaus’ practice and writings, with the much-appreciated help and support of Anny De Decker and Stella Lohaus.
Apart from some key works by Bernd Lohaus, Zwischen meinen Ichs showcases a choice of Laurence’s graduation collection NOUS (Autrefois Toi), combining materials she often works with such as copper, lead, turmeric, corn and marble – as well as a number of selected items from Erik’s Alu Profile, Hoek (Corner) and Frame series.
As is custom at ZEIT, the pieces of our guest artists are interspersed with a number of artworks by post-war abstract favourites, including a large-scale silkscreen by Sol LeWitt, an early monotype by Pol Mara and a radiant Silberflügel by Heinz Mack, as well as some design pieces. In this show we proudly present three sculptural lamps by Dimitrih Correa, a young Brazilian designer. In his Materiae series he uses reclaimed noble hardwood that he recovers from buildings that are being dismantled in his home town of Rio de Janeiro. Each piece comes in an edition of 10, signed and numbered by the artist.