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Wolfram Ullrich. Reliefs
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Wolfram Ullrich. Reliefs

From 23 February to 21 April 2019

MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone

MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone

Viale Elisa Ancona, 6, Lissone

Closed today: open tomorrow at 10:00

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After the recent anthology dedicated to him by the Museo Marca di Catanzaro, Wolfram Ullrich is having his second solo exhibition in an Italian public institution. For the MAC di Lissone, the artist has selected a series of reliefs from the nineties and two thousands that redefine museum spaces through their perspective incongruity. Challenging our cognitive sphere, Ullrich's works invite us to constantly change our point of view, approaching or stepping back, breaking down and recomposing geometric surfaces to unveil the simple - yet ingenious - mechanism that obeys and at the same time transgresses visual faculties. Freed from the limits that distinguish sculpture from painting, Ullrich often claims his painting training at the Academy of Stuttgart, an experience that led him to the highest degree of objectivity. His meticulous geometries are indeed, first and foremost, objects capable of eluding the tautology of materials and the force of gravity. Ullrich's research - born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1961 - becomes more defined around the mid-eighties with a rational but not merely intellectual approach. Later, the artist experiments with steel materials and decides to investigate the incongruities between reality and appearance; starting from the nineties, his interest focuses on the atmospheric effect of color, an element that enhances the virtuality of the formal construct, increasingly combining the fiction of painting with the physicality of sculpture. After working systematically on individual works, the artist develops a particular predilection for polyptychs, through which he investigates the different morphologies of the same polyhedron. Sensing that the essence of art is to be pursued in its manual execution even more than in its mental one, Ullrich designs and constructs painting (in the sense that he assembles it, part by part). In addition to giving ample emphasis to the artist's "reliefs", the exhibition in Lissone also includes the recent Orbits, ellipses that punctuate the walls with unusual ogives, an artifice that marks the logical culmination of a thirty-year research.
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Viale Elisa Ancona, 6, Lissone, Italy

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