Instinctive, spontaneous, sensible on one hand, and rational, intellectual and conceptional on the other: The art of Gerrit Groteloh puts different materials into dialogue. A dialogue revolving around these materials‘ qualities, turning from one direction into another. A dialogue as unpredictable as artistic creation itself.
The material-inspired works from the series Run‘s Poetry are compositions made from nylon stockings and are simultaneously image and object. The woman’s nylons are stacked over one another, stretched, cut and torn.
Only at a second glance can the material be identified; even though the works consist of these concrete things, they are non-representational. They do not want to portray or represent anything in particular. The stockings are simply material. The associations they evoke can hardly be suppressed, such as eroticism, vulnerability, violence and aggression.
However, to use these allusions for the material is by no means the intention of the artist ...
