all images: installation views, Max Frintrop, Ricochet, Courtesy: Galerie Chaplini
'Geometry', as Isaac Newton once said, 'does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.' Here we are, surrounded by geometry - the beginning of each and every brushstroke. Max Frintrop (*1982) dedicated his exhibition 'Ricochet' (= a rebound, bounce or skip off a surface) at Galerie Chaplini to these primal lines, investigating in the limits of a 2 dimensional canvas. His wooden sculpture, growing into- and out of the walls and the ceiling, appears as an extension of the colourful paintings. The surface is penetrated. Two- and three dimensionality shake hands and create a space within the space, hypnotising us with their undoubtful, logical truth. Beauty without frills. Conceptuality without severity. The lines are drawn, geometry is born.
Ricochet
Max Frintrop
until 6th of June
CHAPLINI
Bismarckstr. 60
D-50672 Köln
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Friday 13 –18h, Saturday 12 – 16h