‘Uninterruptible’: the Uninterruptible Gerhard Hoehme

• Significant early work from 1958, dating from Hoehme’s formative phase within the German Informel movement • Powerful, impasto layers of paint coalesce into a vibrant, almost relief-like surface • A radical approach to colour and material, paving the way for Hoehme’s later opening up of the picture into space The year 1958 falls within Gerhard Hoehme’s first, extraordinarily productive creative decade, during which he explored the possibilities of Informel painting in his own unique way. The traditional notion of a flat picture surface increasingly loses its validity. For Hoehme, painting becomes an open field of experimentation in which colour and material take on a life of their own. In ‘"Uninterruptable" the Uninterruptable’, heavy, impasto layers of paint overlap to form a dense, almost relief-like surface. Grey, bluish and earthy red tones run in vertical bands across the canvas, break up, flow into one another and thicken once more. The paint acquires a pronounced physicality; its textured structures capture the light and create a surface that oscillates between movement and stillness. For Hoehme, paint is far more than a creative medium. It is the very driving force behind his painting, determines the working process and, of its own accord, continually develops new forms and structures. In this, he is less interested in the finished picture than in making visible an ongoing process of creation. Even the unusual title defies a single interpretation. It can be understood as a conceptual continuation of that movement which unfolds in the painting and seems to extend beyond the boundaries of the canvas. The 1958 painting shows Hoehme at a decisive stage in his artistic development. His intensive exploration of the possibilities of colour and its material presence already foreshadows that radical expansion of the concept of the picture, through which he would increasingly dissolve the boundaries between painting, object and space in the years that followed. | 1920 Greppin bei Dessau - Neuss-Selikum 1989 | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Gemälde | Nummer: 26x2391 | Provenance: Galerie Schüler, Berlin; Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin; Sammlung Olbricht, Deutschland, 2021 bei Vorgenannter erworben.

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