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Hartmut Böhm: or-or
Cat. Daimler Art Collection
Exhibition catalogue, edited by Renate Wiehager and Christian Ganzenberg
texts (German/Englsih) by Renate Wiehager, Christian Ganzenberg and Nadine Brüggebors
280 p with 124 coloured plates
240 x 240 mm, Swiss brochure with flaps
ISBN 978-3-86442-187-7
Serial Masterpieces
For five decades, Hartmut Böhm (*1938 in Kassel) has been working at the interface between Concrete Art, Minimal Art and Conceptual Art. The terms seriality, relief, structure, progression apply to many of his sculptures and objects. His work is about sculptural-aesthetic concepts whose differentiated proportions of disorder in the world are set against the ethos of a spiritual and material-specific intent of disciplined form finding. Since 2013, Hartmut Böhm has been devising a new group of works – the »table pieces«. Objects found in his studio – drawing instruments, materials, tools, adhesive tape, file boxes, invitation cards, flyers – are placed on plain tables so that each individual object becomes part of a strict, formally elaborated vocabulary, a visually composed arrangement. Adhering to this principle, Hartmut Böhm created the installation »or-or« for the Daimler Art Collection; it can be read as a visual essay on his entire artistic oeuvre. The display, seven meters in length, is extensively documented in this book. Derived from the actual proportions of the work »or-or« and its underlying ›progression ad infinitum‹, the photographer Florian Böhm has developed a conceptual-visual approach for its documentation in the book. The viewer can survey and contemplate the vocabulary of Hartmut Böhm’s intellectual landscape, get to know the material diversity of the typographic objects, art materials and items selected from his studio. The artist formulated the following terms to help reading the piece: matrix and metaphor, emptiness and volume, superposition and permeation, system and syntax, form and structure.
Exhibition:
Vis-á-Vis with Adolf Fleischmann: Hartmut Böhm and Andreas Schmid, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, 30/4–6/11/2016