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Ute Müller makes paintings. But not only that. Like most artists today – except for painters maybe – she also produces sculpture, does installations, and publishes, either alone or in a group, and cannot be pinned down as a specialist in any one medium. While she is keen on painting for its intrinsic qualities – which she has explored for many years in very large format canvases and dense multi-referential compositions – Müller is interested in those things as media. And indeed the artist wonders what it is that painting conveys to the person looking at it. What quantity of information is picked up (given that it is often more than the quantity emitted) and what sort of relationship that initiates. In a word, what happens in this conventional situation when a painting is shown to the (two) eyes of viewers, that is, at the moment they are exposed to the piece?
At first glance, the problematic is raised as directly as possible by...More
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Ute Müller makes paintings. But not only that. Like most artists today – except for painters maybe – she also produces sculpture, does installations, and publishes, either alone or in a group, and cannot be pinned down as a specialist in any one medium. While she is keen on painting for its intrinsic qualities – which she has explored for many years in very large format canvases and dense multi-referential compositions – Müller is interested in those things as media. And indeed the artist wonders what it is that painting conveys to the person looking at it. What quantity of information is picked up (given that it is often more than the quantity emitted) and what sort of relationship that initiates. In a word, what happens in this conventional situation when a painting is shown to the (two) eyes of viewers, that is, at the moment they are exposed to the piece?
At first glance, the problematic is raised as directly as possible by...More