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FELD/ FIELD
Philipp Messner
In the strictest sense, a field is the result of forces that lend a specific dynamic character to the surrounding space. [...] The lines connecting all points with corresponding force effects are force or field lines. If a single element is altered, a new field emerges that has no points in common with the previous one. The field thus reacts as a whole, i.e., it is a form or dynamic totality.
(Dorsch, Encyclopedia of Psychology)
The starting point for the exhibition of Philipp Messner’s works in the Neue Atelier at the Museum Villa Stuck is space and materiality: on show are a drawing on the floor, shimmering aluminium panels and organically meandering silvery tubes, as well as matte black magnetic objects. Similarly disparate
as the selection of materials and forms are the points of refe rence and sources drawn upon by the artist. The phenomeno logy of his native region, the Dolomites, and the thematic and formal concepts of Arte Povera (‘poor art’), which…
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FELD/ FIELD
Philipp Messner
In the strictest sense, a field is the result of forces that lend a specific dynamic character to the surrounding space. [...] The lines connecting all points with corresponding force effects are force or field lines. If a single element is altered, a new field emerges that has no points in common with the previous one. The field thus reacts as a whole, i.e., it is a form or dynamic totality.
(Dorsch, Encyclopedia of Psychology)
The starting point for the exhibition of Philipp Messner’s works in the Neue Atelier at the Museum Villa Stuck is space and materiality: on show are a drawing on the floor, shimmering aluminium panels and organically meandering silvery tubes, as well as matte black magnetic objects. Similarly disparate
as the selection of materials and forms are the points of refe rence and sources drawn upon by the artist. The phenomeno logy of his native region, the Dolomites, and the thematic and formal concepts of Arte Povera (‘poor art’), which…





























