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Ute Müller
Beige, Brussels 2021
The reduced paintings and sculptures by Ute Müller take us to a timeless space where associations freely roam. Balancing on the edge of abstraction and figuration, form and anti-form, representation and presentation her works inhabit a curious space. Because of the sheere size of the works, the viewer not only mentally but also physically finds him- or herself immersed in the paintings or the architectural space created by the sculptures.
The colour palette is reduced by existing mainly out of blues and greys refers to dreamscapes. The shapes are reduced forms of daily objects that are then placed on top of the others to create their own language or story. The works can be read as a modern ‘palimpsest’ or a visual kind of hard disk. The historically loaded technique of egg tempera brings about a translucent quality. The light breaks through layers of colours and lines.
Ute Müller is reducing the paintings to their bare essentials. She illustrates with a quote by the late Sol LeWitt: “Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person but a drawing of a line is a real line”. (Ann Cesteleyn)
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Ceramic, wood, latex, magnets, aluminium, steel
Various dimensions
Images: Beige
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