HEINZ SCHMÖLLER / EXPLOITATION / June 26 – August 01, 2009

Exhibition (please click on the image to enlarge):

(Photos: Uwe Walther)

EXPLOITATION

A visit to Heinz Schmöller's studio is akin to entering a giant playroom. Second-hand stuffed animals are piled up in one corner, shelves are filled with colorful things, dolls, plastic stuff. The artist prefers working with materials from a kid's world. His work is playful, intuitive. With a good stretch of the imagination, he is able to pursue his ideas to the finished work without slipping into naiveté.

Schmöller is fascinated by toys. He is provoked by their transparent emotions and colorful artificiality. He uses these discovered objects, reinterpreting and recreating them in order to add to the Naïve the hidden dramas of reality - through the eyes of an adult.

In his exhibition "EXPLOITATION" Schmöller presents artworks in different media (from sculpture and installation to video) in the structure of a creative production cycle - starting at a point of zero value and coming full circle. The artworks become stations in a cycle of becoming and passing, production and disposal.

A large image made of thousands of tiny Perler Beads depicts a factory. The theme of production and manufacturing technology seems here to be the motivation for the image's composition. Other works combine non-functional toys in an act of artistic meaning through their usage. A video in which a detonation of Schmöller's larger-than-life plush sculpture "GROSSE KUH" can be seen, completes the cycle. While his previous artwork is disposed of as waste, it is at the same moment transformed into another medium.

Once again, this end is only temporary.

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Opening documented by the Berlin Artcontacter:
www.berlinerkunstkontakter.de