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| Artist's Name: | Erik Schmidt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred medium: | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| birth year: | 1968 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | DE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | Berlin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Erik Schmidt auf MyArtSpace |
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Erik Schmidt - Profile |
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| The works shown in "Working the landscape" oscillate between the figurative representation of their motifs and the abstract loss of control over the paint, which is layered, pulled and scraped on the canvas in heavy streaks. The orderly pointillé of his early oil works, displaying a machinelike precision, has given way to highly condensed spatial masses of paint that alternate with monochrome surfaces. The motifs frequently dissolve into colour, and it is only by rearranging the work with the eye that we are able to piece the elements back together into something identifiable as a thorn bush, grape picker or herd of sheep. Schmidt evokes a historical paradigm of painting by showing it to be a medium that can be experienced physically in all its multiple facets as a permanent deception, projection surface and fetish of the gaze. In addition to painting, Schmidt reflects on the status of his own artistic existence. Drawing on historical artistic roles, he has conceptually refined his understanding of the artist as an independent, contemplative figure at the periphery of social life. This is revealed in the genealogy of his themes, moving from men in suits and large city architecture to the rituals of hunting and the current Middle Eastern landscapes. One of the central aspects of Schmidt's art is its ongoing concern with the code of the picture, which transfers some of the stereotypes of its origins to the contemporary iconography of the artist, who applies his own artistic layer to the image. Like the Holy Land itself, which serves as a melting pot and focal point for three world religions, as a construct of faith, imagination and political desire, Schmidt develops a style of painting that plays with these archaic forces and represents their Romantic code. (Galerie Carlier - Gebauer, Berlin ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
important exhibitions from Erik Schmidt |
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artist's websiteexternal Link to the website of the artist or his gallery/institution: Erik Schmidt |
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Galleries representing
Carlier-Gebauer |
Collections representing
Deutsche Bank Collection |
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