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| Tim Berresheim
Installation view Auge und Welt, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2014
Center: Aspettatori crapulent I (Auge & Welt), 2014, foto mounted on dibond, framed, 240 cm x 180 cm
Courtesy Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
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If you step by the Kunsthalle these days to see the Thomas Ruff exhibition, you also shouldn’t miss what’s going on on the first floor exhibition room of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. Aachen-based artist, Tim Berresheim, is showing ‘Eye and World’ - anonymously set, digitally modelled figures that are placed before reduced, neutral backgrounds. Berresheim uses these as human canvases, draws and sketches on them and converts the figures that are made with the 3D-graphic programme ‘Cinema 4D’ back into a two-dimensional artwork by printing them out life-sized.
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| View on the installation ‘Eye and World’ Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2014 Middle: Aspettatori bugged out I (Auge & Welt), 2014 Photo on Dibond, framed, 240 cm x 180 cm Courtesy Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
Berresheim‘s opulent visual production shares one commonality with Ruff’s – the ‘digital sweat’ that ran whilst manufacturing the work. Both artists benefit from the possibilities of digital technology and then they go beyond, exceeding the potential. While Ruff’s works focus on the functions and possibilities of light, Berresheim is more interested in the moment of seeing and perceiving. His combination of digital technology, 3D-modelling, printing, handwriting and sketching are meant to question the conventions of defining a picture. What is the frame? What are the surroundings?
Berresheim’s works are aligned on the wall, embedded in a wallpaper, and yet, they have an arresting 3 dimensionality to them. Entering the room is like stepping into the studio of a tattoo-artist collecting ideas for his first full-body-cover. Even the artist himself – who also creates music – is tattooed all over, as if he could hop into one of his very own pictures the very next second ... check out his great website here.
‘Eye and World’
September 20 – January 11
Opening hours: Tuesday- Sunday 11am - 6pm
September 20 – January 11
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
Grabbeplatz 4
40213 Düsseldorf
Opening hours: Tuesday- Sunday 11am - 6pm
Entry: €6 Concessions €3 Young people under 18 free
Free entry between 6pm and 8pm every last Thursday of the month
Free entry between 6pm and 8pm every last Thursday of the month
Alina Valient
