Beat ZodererUm 5 Ecken herum

For Beat Zoderer his work is a reaction to set pieces of classic works such as those of a Max Bill, but also to found everyday forms or utilitarian objects. This artist’s edition for Jochen Kienbaum, precisely planned by him, does continue the constructivist legacy in which he quite definitely locates himself, yet at the same time it bursts that legacy open through its ambivalence of content and aesthetics. Unlike classical modernism, Beat Zoderer’s work is not founded on any premise drawn from the philosophy of history; instead, with its art-critical approach, it moves between the everyday world and art and thus connects with the ironic thinking of postmodernism. Thus the most recent series of pentagons blended into one another in staggered fashion corresponds to one of the accompanying poems by Klaus Merz, which can also be read as a motto for Beat Zoderer’s work on (the meaning of) modernism: “There is a voice / that I recognise / even before it / calls me.”