We are pleased to present BENEATH THE SURFACE, Melissa Kretschmer´s fourth solo exhibition at Konrad Fischer Galerie.
A comprehensive catalog with essays by Stefanie Kreuzer, Guido Schlimbach and Lilly Wei will be published with the exhibition.
"In their interest in structure, form, material, and process, as well as in their relationship to space, to other objects in space, and to the viewer, Melissa Kretschmer’s works clearly speak to the tradition of Minimal Art, which advocates a phenomenology of vision with its rejection of compositional ordering systems, illusion, and associative reference. With their reflections on the depth and the generation of the works from within themselves, they add an interior perspective to the minimalist view.
Melissa Kretschmer finds an artistic language that is not only interested in the transparency of the production process, but also creates unique objects that affect the viewer directly and without verbal explanation. All that is required is a pause, a precision of perception usually based on a slowness of looking and on slowing down the process of perception—a set of instruments that we can all set in motion, and that, in contrast to the accelerated rhythm of contemporary life, uses the slowness of the gaze as an instrument to open new spheres of knowledge."
- Stefanie Kreuzer
A comprehensive catalog with essays by Stefanie Kreuzer, Guido Schlimbach and Lilly Wei will be published with the exhibition.
"In their interest in structure, form, material, and process, as well as in their relationship to space, to other objects in space, and to the viewer, Melissa Kretschmer’s works clearly speak to the tradition of Minimal Art, which advocates a phenomenology of vision with its rejection of compositional ordering systems, illusion, and associative reference. With their reflections on the depth and the generation of the works from within themselves, they add an interior perspective to the minimalist view.
Melissa Kretschmer finds an artistic language that is not only interested in the transparency of the production process, but also creates unique objects that affect the viewer directly and without verbal explanation. All that is required is a pause, a precision of perception usually based on a slowness of looking and on slowing down the process of perception—a set of instruments that we can all set in motion, and that, in contrast to the accelerated rhythm of contemporary life, uses the slowness of the gaze as an instrument to open new spheres of knowledge."
- Stefanie Kreuzer
