SILENCE

The artists presented in the exhibition SILENCE share a common interest in reduction, light, monochrome, and a visual language of silence. Antonio Calderara, in particular, has repeatedly been described as a “painter of silence”. “I want to paint nothingness, which is everything: silence, light, measure, order, harmony. The infinite.” With these words, Calderara described what he sought in his painting. At the same time, they point to an idea that runs throughout the exhibition SILENCE: a concentration on the essential and the notion that a particular intensity can emerge precisely through reduction.

In Calderara’s work, light itself almost becomes the subject of painting. Robert Ryman and Raimund Girke explore the many possibilities of the colour white. In the works of Heinz Mack, Walter Leblanc, Hal Busse, and Dadamaino, light, structure, and surface become essential means of expression. Herman de Vries, whose works are currently being presented at the ZERO Foundation in Düsseldorf, is represented with four works. His artistic practice explores chance, order, nature, and the reduction of personal influence.