"IDENTITY AND TERRAIN"
Heribert C. Ottersbach
BECK & EGGELING
Bilker Strasse 4-6 40213 Düsseldorf Germany
+49 211 2107911 e-mail:
6 September > 26 October, 2019
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»Painting, like my pictures, is what enables me to react and position
myself beyond the means of speech, sound and gesture. In the end,
I try to get a picture for lack of words.«
WORKS
Ottersbach has always reflected upon his position as an artist and painter. He continues devoting himself to notions of originality and artifact even though the aesthetic and political means and terms have changed in art and painting. They still do. Painting for Ottersbach is occurrence. It means slowing down. It is indeed late by necessity.
»On Offer Due to Circumstances«, on view at Beck & Eggeling in Düsseldorf and Vienna in 2016, was a source of irritation for many. Others appreciated it all the more. The artist was happy. After all, this is where his articulated distancing from motif and object of interest became apparent.
His current work marks a shift in his approach to that very object of interest. One is always the result of ones circumstances. For some years now, Ottersbach has been living mostly in Sweden, close to nature and wilderness. This has had some impact on his work. His pictures and attitudes have changed.
In fact, the artist's roaming through his own biography and personal circumstances is what characterises these pictures. They deal with »identity and terrain«, always in the open sense of terrain.
»Distancing seemed of little help in recent years. Critical positioning? As a painter? I found this increasingly boring. Ground experience became more and more attractive.
Indeed I never actually painted landscapes. I painted pictures about landscape, pondering the history of their depiction in painting.«
For the last two or three years, painting what he calls »depictions of terrain« has become Ottersbach's chosen preference. As far as he is concerned, identity is an investigative process and terrain, very much like painting. »Like a screw, I am winding myself into matters of interest. I imagine there being an end to the drill. I know nothing about it.«
What matters is the assimilation of space and occurrence, a thorough understanding of painting, slowing down and interiorising. There may be »nothing« there, no »more or less« either though.
BOOK
Heribert C. Ottersbach ‒ Identität und Gelände with an essay by Wolfgang Ullrich is published by Beck & Eggeling Kunstverlag to coincide with the exhibition.
The book was made in cooperation with the Kunstverein Hechingen.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you wish to receive a copy of the book once released.
WORKS
Ottersbach has always reflected upon his position as an artist and painter. He continues devoting himself to notions of originality and artifact even though the aesthetic and political means and terms have changed in art and painting. They still do. Painting for Ottersbach is occurrence. It means slowing down. It is indeed late by necessity.
»On Offer Due to Circumstances«, on view at Beck & Eggeling in Düsseldorf and Vienna in 2016, was a source of irritation for many. Others appreciated it all the more. The artist was happy. After all, this is where his articulated distancing from motif and object of interest became apparent.
His current work marks a shift in his approach to that very object of interest. One is always the result of ones circumstances. For some years now, Ottersbach has been living mostly in Sweden, close to nature and wilderness. This has had some impact on his work. His pictures and attitudes have changed.
In fact, the artist's roaming through his own biography and personal circumstances is what characterises these pictures. They deal with »identity and terrain«, always in the open sense of terrain.
»Distancing seemed of little help in recent years. Critical positioning? As a painter? I found this increasingly boring. Ground experience became more and more attractive.
Indeed I never actually painted landscapes. I painted pictures about landscape, pondering the history of their depiction in painting.«
For the last two or three years, painting what he calls »depictions of terrain« has become Ottersbach's chosen preference. As far as he is concerned, identity is an investigative process and terrain, very much like painting. »Like a screw, I am winding myself into matters of interest. I imagine there being an end to the drill. I know nothing about it.«
What matters is the assimilation of space and occurrence, a thorough understanding of painting, slowing down and interiorising. There may be »nothing« there, no »more or less« either though.
BOOK
Heribert C. Ottersbach ‒ Identität und Gelände with an essay by Wolfgang Ullrich is published by Beck & Eggeling Kunstverlag to coincide with the exhibition.
The book was made in cooperation with the Kunstverein Hechingen.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you wish to receive a copy of the book once released.
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Heribert C. Ottersbach |
Vernissage:
6 Sept 2019, 6–10 pm
(The artist will be present.)
Matinée with the artist: 7 Sept 2019, 11 am
(The artist will be present.)
Matinée with the artist: 7 Sept 2019, 11 am
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