bartnig - konkret

Exhibition opening in the presence of Horst Bartnig
Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 8 PM with Dr. Eugen Blume, Director of Hamburger Bahnhof

Galerie Parterre is located in the Berlin district of Pankow, housed in a listed building of the former IV. Municipal Gasworks in the Prenzlauer Berg district. This exhibition, specifically designed for this location, offers a new experience of Bartnig's interaction with space. As the first artist to exhibit here, he addresses the column structure that dominates the main room, which emerged during the renovation of the former director's villa into a cultural center in 1984. The authentic, slender cast-iron columns of the industrial building were encased in a historicizing and oversized plaster façade. This was already disconcertingly retrogressive at the time. Yet to this day, this alteration defines the atmosphere of the spaces.

Bartnig's artistic intervention—characteristic of his approach of developing variations and sequences—will completely transform the space and undoubtedly spark discussions about the relationship with architecture.

Additionally, there will be images and graphic series from the years 1998 to 2013.

“Concrete art does not express itself in formulas, but in images, in abstract lines and in colors, which are constituted solely by what Paul Klee called pictorial thinking, and whose aim is the contemplation of the pure idea.” (Eugen Blume)

Image below:
70 Interruptions, 70 Lines in 3 Colors and Black and White,
Horst Bartnig 2013,
Artist PC print, 53.5 x 53.5 cm series of 9 sheets