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In Matthias Noggler’s paintings, the formal reference to popular imagery is constitutive. The references within his artistic practice range from documentary photography and mo-dern architectural designs to mass media imagery. Potential connections between image and social space are always related to morphological questions—that is, by questions of structure, form, and appearance. In his new exhibition, he draws on the collage principles of posters, record covers, and geometric industrial design, while for the first time also en-gaging with so-called supergraphics. These are large-scale graphic designs employed by architects in the 1960s and 1970s to cover the interior and exterior walls of buildings in order to emulate the spatial effects of the architecture through painterly means.
The starting points of this exhibition are the spatial effects resulting from the juxtaposi-tion of certain colors, as well as the range of intelligibility of...More
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In Matthias Noggler’s paintings, the formal reference to popular imagery is constitutive. The references within his artistic practice range from documentary photography and mo-dern architectural designs to mass media imagery. Potential connections between image and social space are always related to morphological questions—that is, by questions of structure, form, and appearance. In his new exhibition, he draws on the collage principles of posters, record covers, and geometric industrial design, while for the first time also en-gaging with so-called supergraphics. These are large-scale graphic designs employed by architects in the 1960s and 1970s to cover the interior and exterior walls of buildings in order to emulate the spatial effects of the architecture through painterly means.
The starting points of this exhibition are the spatial effects resulting from the juxtaposi-tion of certain colors, as well as the range of intelligibility of...More
