Andreas Karl SchulzeLA LA LA LA

Andreas Karl Schulze paints with the eye, with the activation of the gaze. His expressive possibilities are undreamt-of in their variety, from the pointed aperçu to festive breadth, from controlled precision to expressive dynamism and from intuitive rhythm to Dadaist babble of voices. Never, however, do his works confine themselves to the conceptual; they always express themselves in the visible. Contrary to first appearances they are also only rarely severe, yet always emotional – filled with musical, dance-like, contemplative, surprising, accelerating and finally scarcely graspable movement. Understanding them is actually quite easy; it is enough to see what is visible. The works of Andreas Karl Schulze, however, present nothing one already knows. They make visible what Willi Baumeister called “the unknown in art” – “something that only becomes visible through painting and did not exist before, that belonged to the unknown.” Concentration on the visible does not mean a restriction but an inexhaustible expansion of what can be discerned … All the works of Andreas Karl Schulze enter into a unity with the surrounding real space – a unity of the different. In the urban space of Lippstadt the artist has realised pictorial constellations of six coloured squares each on a number of buildings, mostly in inconspicuous corners. The gaze renews itself upon what really stands before our eyes; it adjusts to the intervals and the colour relations, which also draw the elements of the surrounding reality into this visual play of relationships. They take part in the rhythms, the accentuations, the tensions, in the further-reaching optical surprises and discoveries. Something “unknown” emerges. The real is not merely the vehicle of an artwork and its emotional processes but their necessary and precious component. Here and there, in a corner of everyday life, a quiet and intense optical poetry arises. (Extract from the accompanying text by Erich Franz)

Exhibition:
Kunstverein Lippstadt, 8/9 – 27/10/2013