Solo Exhibition 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 sheer size of the works, the viewer not only mentally but also physically finds themself immersed in the paintings or in the architectural space created by the sculptures.

The colour palette, reduced mainly to blues and greys, refers to dreamscapes. The shapes are reduced forms of daily objects that are then placed on top of others to create their own language or story. The works can be read as a modern palimpsest or a visual hard disk. The historically loaded technique of egg tempera brings about a translucent quality: light breaks through layers of colours and lines.

Ute Müller reduces the paintings to their bare essentials. She illustrates this with a quote by 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