Frank Gerritz: Temporary Ground Cat. Museum Wiesbaden

Frank Gerritz, born in 1964 in Hamburg, is an artist whose ideas literally move in space. Starting from the floor, his work spills onto the wall and, from there, has an effect back into the room. The sculptor works, among other things, on aluminum panels with paintsticks in such dense layers that the surfaces on the one hand appear sealed, yet the structure of the application on the other hand remains visible. Black is not always black; where the silver-anodized aluminum sur­faces reflect the room, the darker parts of the ­surfaces reveal a shimmering, a residue of light that changes depending on the viewpoint and light conditions. The drawn surfaces—graphite pencil or paintstick on MDF boards or aluminum—develop a materiality characterized by blurred reflections, thus transferring the surfaces of the two-dimen­sional image carriers into a spatial dimension. In addition, Gerritz casts iron blocks based on his own body dimensions; their stand area form the basis for his first prints on paper and define the proportions of his sculptural works in front of the wall. The catalog shows the inherent spatiality of the wall objects and sculptural groups and unfolds specific details.

Lea Schäfer has a master’s degree in fine arts, history and art history as well as a master’s degree in painting. She then completed an internship at the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich in the context of the exhibition preparation »Paul Klee. Construction of the Secret«. Since March 2018 she is a scientific volunteer in the art collections at the Museum Wiesbaden. Andreas Henning, born in 1969, studied art history and German language and literature. He has been curator for Italian painting at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden since 2004. He has demonstrated his museum expertise in numerous special exhibitions, research and outreach projects, and as deputy to the director of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. His portfolio of exhibitions spans Renaissance to the present, including »Captured Emotions« at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Jörg Daur is curator for modern and contemporary art at the Museum Wiesbaden and also deputy director there. Jörg Daur is curator for modern and contemporary art at the Museum Wiesbaden and also deputy director there. Franz Kaiser, born in 1957, is a German and internationally active art scholar and exhibition organizer. In 2006 he received his PhD from Leiden University, Holland, on the relationship between art and reality. His professional activity is wide-ranging, he was assistant to Johannes Gachnang and Rudi Fuchs, and from 1989 to 2016 ans exhibition director at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. He curated numerous internationally important exhibitions with Clegg & Guttman, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, or Hermann Nitsch. Since 2010 he is vice president of the Karel Appel Estate Foundation.