Hank Schmidt in der Beek - Drachensaison in der gegenstandslosen Welt
In the organizer's words:
"After a visit to Hank Schmidt in the Beeks' world of pictures, it is no longer possible to look at Picasso, van Gogh or Dalí, or at least it is hard to bear. Hard to bear without Goofy, the Tinker Smurf, the Peanuts or the Tank-Crackers. Without them, the great masters are lonely, dead and lost. I never want to see them again, never again without Hank."
This is what the Munich musician and author Pico Be writes about Hank Schmidt in Beek's collages. Hank, in turn, considers this text to be the most beautiful he has ever read about his work: "Nothing more needs to be said". Nonetheless, Hank Schmidt in Beek's collages and paintings offer a wild ride through art history that will delight even those who know nothing about art history. The artist combines worlds that seem miles apart with relish: comics and the classics of modernism.
The works of the Berlin-based artist present his own perspective on art history. "Dragon season in the non-representational world" combines collages and paintings, with the motif of kite flying running through the various groups of works: The Smurfs use the colored squares from Rodchenko's "The Smooth Paint" as kites, Mickey Mouse and Goofy cheekily use the black square to play with the wind and Charlie Braun has his hands full with Malevich's suprematist surfaces.
However, he not only creates access to art history through the back door of pop culture with mediating comic figures, but also ennobles the comic itself by embedding it in the great works of art history. In doing so, he turns the categorizations that (still) prevail in parts of cultural criticism on their head: E vs. U art, comics vs. high culture. Through Schmidt in der Beek, comics enter art history as a genre to be taken seriously, while modern masterpieces are freed from their rigid interpretation on the pedestals of modern art history.
Schmidt in der Beek's works are bursting with quotations, which may seem disrespectful to some, but the unbiased approach gives us a completely new view of modernism and thus also new levels of meaning. This wonderfully low-threshold approach to art is based on an impertinence that comes across as incredibly funny.
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