Andreas Karl Schulze: FLATLIKEKEEPINGISM

In search of rhythm?

The longer you are familiar with Andreas Karl Schulze's small, colourful 5 x 5 cm squares, the quicker the calm associated with Zen sets in, which you can also associate with his work, whether in 2008 in the Villa Merkel, the AZKM Münster, the Bentlage Monastery in Rheine or currently the rocket station on the island of Hombroich. Schulze is quite capable of concentrating his small squares on less than a quarter of a square metre, but also uses them to confidently cover a 30-metre-long wall. And viewers search for a regularity, a rhythm, but do not find what they are looking for, but rather, as Carina Plath, curator of the Sprengel Museum Hanover, puts it: "... a quiet murmur or a subtle reminder to rest. A concise mural and yet fragile and unobtrusive."

Exhibition:
Bentlage Monastery, Rheine, 26/7 - 23/8/2009