The exhibition WELTRAUM at Galerie Wilms shows the work of two Dutch and two German artists, each dealing with spatiality in their own way. Spatiality that is explored in three-dimensional compositions, but also in the flat plane. Paper and steel that, through artisanal precision and hours of concentration, gains depth, develops skin and comes to life, itself becoming space.
Spaciousness, paper and impressive concentration. Although each is distinguished by an entirely distinct visual language, these are the aspects these four artists have in common. Whereas Heydenreich re-infuses abstracted maps with space, depth and a human romanticism, Roozen manages to create awe-inspiring spatial abstractions on paper from the craft of drawing with graphite. And although the work of Mijling and Bremermermann seems at first to consist mainly of abstractions and geometric forms, it is precisely man who looms up in the work of both. Man, who as a craftsman strives for abstraction and perfection, but is by definition incapable of this.
In the work of all four, man enters and questions the space around him. For Heydenreich, it is about the way man visits, conquers and abstracts the world around him. For Roozen, it is about the tension between the spatiality of the composition and the two-dimensional properties of paper as a support.
Mijling shows herself as the building, shaping, abstracting human being herself, who while creating relates to the spatiality around her. Bremermann presents herself as 'homo ludens', man at play, carried away by the language of forms, colours and lines from which the world, or the space around her, is constructed. How does man relate to the space in which he irrevocably finds herself? What relationships can, may or should man enter into to the space around him? Which space can humans occupy, and which cannot? During the exhibition at Galerie Wilms, come and marvel at these questions and the imposing works created from these questions.