Matthias Bitzer
For Matthias Bitzer's fifth solo exhibition, "The Collapse of Features", at Kadel Willborn in D眉sseldorf, the Berlin-based artist presents a series of new works that investigate notions of how space can be variously constructed through processes of dislocation, dissolution, and fragmentation. Spanning a diverse array of media, including abstract-figurative painting, collage, sculpture, and site-specific wall drawing, the works together playfully question the ways in which a space can be inscribed with an ever shifting internal order. Bitzer deftly situates his works within a carefully configured landscape of rotating axis points, each work acting in relation to the next to create a network of mutable points, as if vacillating plots on a map. Alongside multi-part picture panels and interior-like wall installations, whose signet-like fragments are meant to be recognized by the viewer, the central works include a interactive sculpture from Bitzer's series Phosphor Notes 聳an individualized image archive consisting of drawings, collages and fragments of poems that invite the viewer to take individual panels and place them in altered sequences, thus creating new chains of association. Parallel to this show, the artist has an exhibition of related works on view at the K21 St盲ndehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, which acts in dialogue to create a comprehensive presentation of the themes explored in both "Der Zerfall der Eigenschaften" and "The Collapse of Features". Choosing to title each exhibition, separately in English and German, though both share the same meaning, Bitzer demonstrates his persistent interest in the irreducible nature of language.
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For Matthias Bitzer's fifth solo exhibition, "The Collapse of Features", at Kadel Willborn in D眉sseldorf, the Berlin-based artist presents a series of new works that investigate notions of how space can be variously constructed through processes of dislocation, dissolution, and fragmentation. Spanning a diverse array of media, including abstract-figurative painting, collage, sculpture, and site-specific wall drawing, the works together playfully question the ways in which a space can be inscribed with an ever shifting internal order. Bitzer deftly situates his works within a carefully configured landscape of rotating axis points, each work acting in relation to the next to create a network of mutable points, as if vacillating plots on a map. Alongside multi-part picture panels and interior-like wall installations, whose signet-like fragments are meant to be recognized by the viewer, the central works include a interactive sculpture from Bitzer's series Phosphor Notes 聳an individualized image archive consisting of drawings, collages and fragments of poems that invite the viewer to take individual panels and place them in altered sequences, thus creating new chains of association. Parallel to this show, the artist has an exhibition of related works on view at the K21 St盲ndehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, which acts in dialogue to create a comprehensive presentation of the themes explored in both "Der Zerfall der Eigenschaften" and "The Collapse of Features". Choosing to title each exhibition, separately in English and German, though both share the same meaning, Bitzer demonstrates his persistent interest in the irreducible nature of language.
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