For the first time, the Bröhan Museum is inviting a contemporary artist, Gerold Miller, to engage creatively with the museum collection. Miller is expected to create a connection between his own works and the museum's historical objects.
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Atelier Gerold Miller, photo by Matthias Kolb
Atelier Gerold Miller, photo by Jens Ziehe
Atelier Gerold Miller, photo by Matthias Kolb
Gerold Miller © Atelier Gerold Miller, photo by Jan Windszus
Atelier Gerold Miller, photo by Matthias Kolb
The artist, born in 1961, is one of the most internationally renowned representatives of abstract art.
His works, which shine in bright colors, take up the themes of concrete art and hard edge and expand on them.
His art moves between painting and sculpture: flawless, intense areas of color meet three-dimensional aluminum bodies that are reminiscent of the highly developed, technological world. In the Bröhan Museum, they now come across objects from the early days of industrialization.
The museum's Art Nouveau pieces impress with curved lines and floral shapes, which often capture the viewer's attention with their functionality. However, these details also distract from the subtle quality of the design, which results from proportions, lines, surfaces and colors.
Concrete art, in whose tradition Miller stands, takes a different approach:
It relies on pure, unadulterated form and color language and eliminates all distracting details.
Miller's works emphasize the interplay of color and form to perfection:
applied to geometrically precise aluminum bodies, his colored surfaces show no indication of the application of paint or the artist's signature. Nothing should distract from the full effect of the color, which in his works is seamlessly combined with the form. The traditional themes of painting - color and form - emerge here as autonomous elements. The surface of the canvas develops into a three-dimensional form, the color is separated from the process of painting.
This juxtaposition with the museum's exhibits opens up a new perspective on the works of applied art and design, a view that rests solely on the aesthetics of form and color.
Free public tours (plus museum admission) every Friday (except Good Friday), 4 p.m., no registration required
