HEINZ SCHMÖLLER / SEASON 2 / April 3 – May 10, 2008

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(Photos: Uwe Walter)

Heinz Schmöller mainly deals with objects which are united in a special way by self-contradictory meanings. Therefore he addressed the intense relationship between culture and nature as topic in „Camouflage“ (video installation) in 2006 and the ambivalent relationship between childhood and adulthood in „Overgrown“ (sculpture) a year later. The ambivalences are often expressed in an alienated way of dealing with objects which are obviously associated with childhood.

The title of his upcoming exhibition „SEASON 2“ indicates a serial-character and refers to the fact that Heinz Schmöller uses motifs of earlier works and develops these. A plush cow fills the room – a hybrid form of a plush toy and a production animal. Besides he shows a video work with a robot turtle in plush fur dancing. The show is framed by a small series of ironed plastic-pearl-images. These small-sized „Bügelbilder“ (ironed images) are dominated by loud colors without nuances; the childlike simplistic character of the images is faced with contents from the adult world.

The works by Heinz Schmöller evoke both: a picture of the experience by a child who is unprotected exposed to the adult world, as well as the enduring child in the adult himself whose experience was perhaps mostly disguised and reshaped by functional demands instead of replaced.

(Text by Friedrich Hausen, March 2008)