Andreas Karl SchulzeFLATLIKEKEEPINGISM

In search of the rhythm? The longer one knows Andreas Karl Schulze’s small coloured squares, 5 x 5 cm in size, the more quickly that calm sets in which is to be associated with Zen and which one may also connect with his work, whether in 2008 at the Villa Merkel, at the AZKM Münster, at Kloster Bentlage in Rheine or, currently, at the Raketenstation on Insel Hombroich. Schulze is perfectly capable of concentrating his small squares on less than a quarter of a square metre, but he also commands a 30 m long wall with them just as assuredly. And viewers search for a regularity, a rhythm, yet do not find what they are looking for; instead they find, as Carina Plath, curator at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, puts it: “… a quiet rushing sound or a discreet admonition to be still. A striking mural and yet fragile and unobtrusive.”

Exhibition:
Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, 26/7 – 23/8/2009