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Dieter Balzer & Dirk Salz: Novum Spatium
New York, NY JanKossen Contemporary is pleased to present Novum Spatium, a two-person show featuring German based artists Dirk Salz and Dieter Balzer, on view from March 16th to May 6th, 2017. Novum Spatium, meaning New Space, explores the concept of perception in relation to our environment, physical space and one鈥檚 interaction within it.
Dieter Balzer, translates these ideas through pristine geometric abstraction, creating sculptural, minimalist forms that deal with depth and negative space. Bright, intricate and overlapping; the complex elements build upon each other, carrying the viewer鈥檚 eyes over and through an endless looping, playground of planes. Elements of Balzer鈥檚 work run parallel to contemporary influences on graphic, industrial, and architectural design, the flatness of the vibrantly colored foils create a contemporary twist on the theories of non-representational neoplasticism, cubist sculpture and the Japanese Superflat movement.
Where Balzer uses 3-dimensional elements, the work of Dirk Salz approaches these concepts from another perspective. Instead of creating physical depth with his work, Salz toys with the impression of it. Salz鈥檚 uses simple, supremacist compositions that seem to echo with their color transparency and smooth surfaces. These highly reflective pieces confront the viewer with their own image, and present an experience of shifting planes and varying depths. Surrounding elements found within the work鈥檚 environment emerge and are mirrored as one moves back and forth.
Together, the two artists create a visual dialogue that is crisp, energetic and articulate. Moving between the two bodies of work invokes a sense of moving between worlds - one that brightly invokes the geometric quality of architecture and the digital world, while the other allows us to reflect on the quality of space and our place within it.
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New York, NY JanKossen Contemporary is pleased to present Novum Spatium, a two-person show featuring German based artists Dirk Salz and Dieter Balzer, on view from March 16th to May 6th, 2017. Novum Spatium, meaning New Space, explores the concept of perception in relation to our environment, physical space and one鈥檚 interaction within it.
Dieter Balzer, translates these ideas through pristine geometric abstraction, creating sculptural, minimalist forms that deal with depth and negative space. Bright, intricate and overlapping; the complex elements build upon each other, carrying the viewer鈥檚 eyes over and through an endless looping, playground of planes. Elements of Balzer鈥檚 work run parallel to contemporary influences on graphic, industrial, and architectural design, the flatness of the vibrantly colored foils create a contemporary twist on the theories of non-representational neoplasticism, cubist sculpture and the Japanese Superflat movement.
Where Balzer uses 3-dimensional elements, the work of Dirk Salz approaches these concepts from another perspective. Instead of creating physical depth with his work, Salz toys with the impression of it. Salz鈥檚 uses simple, supremacist compositions that seem to echo with their color transparency and smooth surfaces. These highly reflective pieces confront the viewer with their own image, and present an experience of shifting planes and varying depths. Surrounding elements found within the work鈥檚 environment emerge and are mirrored as one moves back and forth.
Together, the two artists create a visual dialogue that is crisp, energetic and articulate. Moving between the two bodies of work invokes a sense of moving between worlds - one that brightly invokes the geometric quality of architecture and the digital world, while the other allows us to reflect on the quality of space and our place within it.
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