Stationen der Wahrnehmung

In the organizer's words:

Exhibition by Jürgen Ferdinand Schlamp at the Kunstforum:

Jürgen Ferdinand Schlamp is an artist of Concrete Art. The themes of his drawings, paintings and sculptures are determined by questions of perception, consciousness and identity. In particular, he points to the simultaneous use of different systems and structures to understand reality, to the heterogeneity of emotion and reason, of perception and concept. In pictorial analogies to our understanding of reality, Schlamp combines the principle of two-dimensionality with that of the third dimension, the spatial. Square surfaces are juxtaposed with elements constructed from straight lines and semi-ellipses. The white base of the picture is animated, suggesting three-dimensional effects. All elements are set in relation to each other with distances of equal dimensions, with intermediate surfaces which, as negative forms, refer back to the positive forms. The viewer is led into an area between the observation of clear surfaces and illusionistic three-dimensionality. The resulting interpretations alternate between the different levels, between the perception of similarities and distinctions in an arc of tension between knowledge and sensation.

In the encounter with Jürgen Ferdinand Schlamp's drawings, paintings and sculptures, a world of meditative concentration on the foundations of human experience opens up for the viewer.

Jürgen Ferdinand Schlamp, born in 1942, studied free painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1961 to 1964 and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1967 and 1969, he was awarded the art prize at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. In 1968 he was appointed a master student at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin, where he was a tutor and also studied art education. In the following years he concentrated on his work as an art teacher in Munich and Thessaloniki, where he worked from 1984-1990. From 1998-2003 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.