Infinite Village - Readapting
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Year: 2019
Edition: Unique
Technique: Painted softwood framework and industrial fasteners
Framed: No
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AUTHENTICITY
All artworks on IdeelArt are original, signed, delivered directly from the artist's studio, and come with a certificate of authenticity."Re-Adapting" is a monumental site-specific installation created by artist Tilman in collaboration with Cora von Zezschwitz for the Parcours de Sillon in Saôu, France (Drôme). Part of the ongoing Infinite Village series, this architectural platform functions as a "reconstruction of inhabitation," sitting as a solitary, skeletal landmark within the natural landscape.
Artistic Vision & Technique
Moving away from the concept of a purely interactive "social sculpture," this structure is a purist, geometric intervention designed to evoke the idea of an "architecture of additions." Built as a vibrant red skeletal framework, the work emphasizes structural transformation, flexibility, and confluence.
By reducing the concept of shelter to its most basic lines, the artists utilize spatiality as a material. The work creates a "visual vibration" against the greenery of the French countryside, serving as a transmitter of thought that invites viewers to reconsider the fundamental requirements of dwelling. It is a "back to basics" approach that highlights the interconnectedness of our physical structures and our mental perceptions.
Context & Significance
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Saôu forest, Re-Adapting implements a broadened dialogue about sustaining an ecological, social, and political equilibrium in the modern world. Tilman’s practice, rooted in Concrete Art and Minimalism, here addresses the urgency of our relationship to the environment. The project demonstrates how site-specific abstract art can serve as a meditative focal point, grounding the viewer in the "here and now" while suggesting a nomadic, adaptable future for human inhabitation.
Key Technical Details
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Medium: Site-specific collaborative architectural installation.
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Materials: Painted softwood framework and industrial fasteners.
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Dimensions: Variable monumental scale.
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Location: Parcours de Sillon, Saôu, France.
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Year: 2019.
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Born in Munich, Germany, Tilman is an abstract artist and curator. His work includes paintings, built environments, and stacked and layered wall and floor-based objects.He is a founder and current curatorial advisor of Dolceacqua Arte Contemporanea (d.a.c.) in Dolceacqua, Italy, and was a founder and former Chief Curator of the Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (CCNOA) in Brussels, Belgium. Tilman lives and works in New York City and Dolceacqua, Italy.
Education
Tilman graduated from the Munich University of Applied Sciences and Design in 1978, and studied under Günter Fruhtrunk and Hans Baschang at the Munich Academy of Visual Art from 1981 to 1985.
Technique
Tilman creates a range of aesthetic objects, including paintings, drawings, prints, three-dimensional wall hangings, floor objects, floor-wall objects, and built environments. His paintings incorporate various mediums including paint, lacquer and crayons, and integrate various surfaces including vellum, MDF and aluminum. His three-dimensional wall hangings on MDF and aluminum hang flat on the wall, offering a primary front plane, while also creating new spatial possibilities beyond that plane. His works on vellum propose a similar visual arrangement of space, creating compositions of color and form that interact with light to re-order the visual environment. His technique addresses ways of seeing and perception, engaging the viewer to investigate beyond the surface.
Inspiration
Tilman is inspired by the traditions of Concrete Art and Minimalism. The objects he creates use form and color to interpret light and space, engaging the curiosity of viewers. As an active participant in his visual surroundings, his natural curiosity leads him to notice forms, compositions, colors and other sensory impressions occupying public spaces. These concrete elements of the common visual world then take on a new, non-objective presence in his mind. He later interprets these found visual elements into made concrete objects through a reductive process, eliminating what is not necessary and allowing the essence of his findings to manifest anew
Collections
Artworks by Tilman are included in numerous private and institutional collections, including those of Deutsche Bank, Pfizer, Teachers Insurance, The New York Public Library and the Musée d’art Moderne, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Exhibitions
Tilman has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia, Australia, and in the US. He received a major mid-career survey exhibition of his work at Kunstnernes Hus (The Artists’ House) in Oslo, Norway, in 2006.His work has been featured in multiple major publications such as ARTnews an Artnet magazine.
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