09/2009 SCHNEE VON MORGEN
September 18 - November 17, 2009
The never tiring freethinker Heinz Baumüller sharpens our sense of freedom and self-responsibility through ironic aphorisms and disarming neologisms. In his very own aesthetic manner he moves further along the individualistic and critical way his teacher Joseph Beuys pranced on throughout his entire life as an artist.
Impressions of the exhibition >
Contrary to Beuys’ work Heinz Baumüller’s amiably anarchistic view of the world materializes in metallic austerity. The fondness for contradictory, ambiguous effigies of his observations is yet not limited to one single form of expression. He is pleased with articulating stimulating non-sense in manifold ways: Sculptures, installations, actions, posters, photo documentaries and texts are at first glance funny, then profound, thought provoking impulses. They are symbolic puristic works reaching completeness only through the recipient’s interpretation.
But there is yet something else furthering Heinz Baumüller’s oeuvre: his minimalistic, graphically precise, yet on an ideological level sustainable intervention on the given and ordinary. Two small points turn banality into a truly lapidary statement. Irony and humour are his major tools to open up to the intellectually open-minded observer his world of liberal, deeply human values.