Schwierige Bilder
Solo Exhibition at Sammlung Wemhöner, Berlin
30 April – 1 July 2021
Schwierige Bilder
The exhibition Michael Müller – Schwierige Bilder [Difficult Pictures] at Hasenheide 13 focuses for the first time exclusively on the painterly work of the artist.
At the center of the exhibition is the seven-part, large-format series Schwierige Bilder [Difficult Pictures], in which Müller explores the possibilities of abstraction in the twenty-first century and at the same time processes various tendencies of non-objective painting of the past century.
The works are diptychs, but they consist of two wings of different lengths.
On one of the two wings Müller begins to develop his painting, which is then captured photographically in the next work step – partly processed by Photoshop – printed on the further, still empty canvas. Both the photographic basis and the original are painted on, so that the parts of the picture that are almost identical at one point remain largely hidden from the recipient.
Larissa Kikol describes this procedure in the publication accompanying the exhibition as an “anachronistic condensation of different timelines in the same pictorial moment,” in which the painterly further processing “replaces the original as the first idea.”
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PLAYING WITH MY ASS, 2020/2021
(from the series Schwierige Bilder)
Part 1: Acrylic and lacquer on printed Belgian linen
Part 2: Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen
Part 1: 203,3 × 163,2 × 3,5 cm
Part 2: 203,3 × 363,2 × 3,5 cm -
Fragen an die Malerei, 2020
Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen (left)
Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on printed Belgian linen (right)
Part 1: 199 × 358,3 × 3,5 cm -
par avion, 2018/2021
(from the series Schwierige Bilder)
Part 1: Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on printed Belgian linen
Part 2: Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen
Part 1: 203,3 × 163,2 × 3,5 cm
Part 2: 203,3 × 363,2 × 3,5 cm -
PARADOXE MACHTERFAHRUNG (Ungleiches nur gleich), 2020–2021
Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen
Part 1: 199 × 163 × 3,5 cm
Part 2: 199 × 358 × 3,5 cm -
Nothing is Real (feines Denken umgek.), 2021
Part 1: Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on printed Belgian linen
Part 2: Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen
Part 1: 183,3 × 243,2 × 3,5 cm
Part 2: 183,3 × 143,3 × 3,5 cm -
Das verworfene Bild kehrt zurück (simulierendes Malen), 2018
(from the series Schwierige Bilder)
Part 1: Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen
Part 2: Lacquer on printed Belgian linen
Part 1: 199,3 × 359,2 × 3,5 cm
Part 2: 199,3 × 148,2 × 3,5 cm -
Lage der Freiheit, 2019/2020
Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen and acrylic glass
180 × 280 × 5,5 cm -
TARANTIUM
Part 1: MATERIE
Part 2: GEIST, 2020
Gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen
each: 180 × 240 × 4,5 cm -
Passieren, 2020
(from the series Schwierige Bilder)
Acrylic, gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen
Part 1 (left): 199 × 358,4 × 3,5 cm
Part 2 (right): 199 × 161,5 × 3,5 cm
