MATTHIAS PABSCH
Selected Works
MATTHIAS PABSCH
Selected Works
Skiagraphie
Photography is Light and Shadow When the photo-pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot developed the negative-positive process in the 19th century, he first wanted to name the discovery „Skiagraphy“ (shadow writing). Matthias Pabsch’s work ties in with the fundamental thoughts on the essence of the new medium and the attempt to conceptualise it. They are pictures composed of shadows, which are reduced to the basic elements of photography: bright – dark and sharp – blurred. As a result of our brain’s visual experience, it reads this optical information as near and far, and creates the illusion of spatial depth. The shadows are both analogue and digital. They cause photochemical processes on the surface of the picture, which cannot be completely controlled and consistently create the unexpected. In this way, the picture becomes a photograph. The frameless pictures of Matthias Pabsch, mounted on aluminium, hang slightly away from the wall, and thus cast a shadow themselves: pictorial space created by shadows surrounded by the real shadow of the space.
SKIAGRAPHIE silver gelatine print 126 x 196 x 4 cm | 2013
SKIAGRAPHIE silver gelatine print 126 x 172 x 4,5 cm | 2010
SKIAGRAPHIE silver gelatine print 126 x 216 x 4,5 cm | 2010
SKIAGRAPHIE silver gelatine print 126 x 151 x 4,5 cm | 2010
Trace
Trace „Trace“ – is a series of individual pictures, cosmic-like traces, extremely smooth in the treatment of the surface, at the same time hypnotic and dissociating, exiting and seductive, so that one would like to gently stroke the surface, to understand the depth of the image, this suggestive flow into the abyss of the universe. At first one thinks of maybe the enamel technique or photography. But there the inquisitive viewer is wrong. Pabsch has found an effective method of sensually seducing the viewer between abstraction and concretion. By applying acrylic and resin onto aluminium panels using a sophisticated painting technique with a profound spatial sense. Elements can be discovered in the motifs that are normally hidden from the human eye, or can only visualized with the aid of specialized technical instruments, like structures that are only visible with magnetic resonance tomography. Recordings from infrared cameras also inspire the artist. The motif of swarms of elementary particles unfolds entirely as a result of the artistic technical method.
TRACE acrylic and resin on aluminium 25 x 25 x 2,5 cm | 20102
TRACE acrylic and resin on aluminium 25 x 25 x 2,5 cm | 2012
TRACE acrylic and resin on aluminium 50 x 70 x 2,5 cm | 2011
TRACE acrylic and resin on aluminium 25 x 25 x 2,5 cm | 2011
TRACE acrylic and resin on aluminium 105 x 148 x 4,5 cm | 2010
TRACE acrylic and resin on aluminium 50 x 70 x 2,5 cm | 2010
Sculpture
Sculpture and Architecture In both our Western and Eastern European cities, we are essentially marked by the post-warmodernity of the 1960s. But now, in the time of hypertrophic architects’ dreams and global glass architecture, the designs of the 60s are considered to be a petit bourgeois Bauhaus-blend. This architecture is often considered to be ugly and is condemned to be torn down without any difficulty. We associate this architecture with compact city architecture, slab-bloc estates, built-up city centres and concrete Brutalism. An entire epoch is threatened with disappearance from cultural memory because we are ignoring it. You have to want to see the beauty of these structures and materials, their relation to tradition, the novelty of their approach, their unity, their interaction with music and fashion, then can one see what Pabsch holds worthy of looking at and considering. I see his models as a homage to the 1960s, because of their surface composition, choice of material, their apertures and rounded-off corners. They are a revaluation of forms, even of architectural aesthetics, a new approach to the principal of stacking, a light-hearted salute to glass blocks and washed-out concrete slabs.
NAMELESS TOWER 300 x 32 x 32 cm | 2012
INSTANT TOWER washed-out concrete, glass bricks 160 x 56 x 27 cm | 2012
PLUG IN TOWER (SCHÖNER WOHNEN) washed-out concrete, glass bricks 140,5 x 106,5 x 159,5 cm | 2009
HAUS DES ARCHITEKTEN washed-out concrete, glass bricks 65 x 40 x 40 cm | 2009
PARALLEL CITY acrylic glass 26 x 31,5 x 23,5 cm | 2009
UNTITLED wood, acrylic glass, aluminium 60 x 30 x 19,5 cm | 2004
UNTITLED wood, acrylic glass, aluminium 50 x 36 x 30 cm | 2004
THING (DING) wood, acrylic glass, aluminium 54 x 38 x 30 cm | 2004
CRYSTAL CITY polystyrene 99 x 755 x 177 cm | 2009
LOOP CITY concept drawing 2009
BAR polystyrene 110 x 353 x 50 cm | 2009
Matthias Pabsch (born 1970 in Hildesheim, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. His artistic mediums are painting, sculpture and photography. He has published books on art (Berlin und seine Künstler / Berlin and its Artists, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2006), architecture and urban design (Zweimal Weltstadt. Architektur und Städtebau am Potsdamer Platz / Twice a Metropolis. Architecture and Urban Design at Potsdamer Platz, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1998) and (Pariser Platz – Architektur und Technik. Vom manuellen zum digitalen Zeitalter /Pariser Platz – Architecture und Technology. From the Manuel to the Digital Age, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002). He is adjunct Professor at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Exhibitions (Selection) 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
CHIAROSCURO, Galerie Pamme-Vogelsang, Cologne OH MENSCH, Galerie Pamme-Vogelsang, Cologne ,spatiotemporal, Galerie Thomas Crämer, Berlin Ausstellung 6, Berlin Art Junction/GIZ, Berlin | Catalog Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012, Park am Gleisdreieck, | Catalog Kunstverein (Stage Design), Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam Alpha, Galerie Thomas Crämer, Berlin terra incognita. Weltbilder - Welterfahrungen, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden Prospektive, Galerie Thomas Crämer, Berlin About Abstraction, KTV, Berlin Etats d‘Ame, Belle-Idée, Geneva/CH Deutsche Show, Divus, Prague/CZ Elementarteilchen, Galerie Pamme-Vogelsang, Cologne GEHAG Forum, Berlin Jagdsaison, Gloria Berlin, Berlin Berliner Allee 174, Centre Culturel Colombier, Rennes/F Licht und Schatten, Berlin Crashport, Galerie Thomas Crämer, Berlin 13x13, Galerie Pamme-Vogelsang, Cologne Das DING, G.A.S – station, Berlin | Catalog /+\=X, serialworks studio, Kapstadt/ZA GEHAG Forum, Berlin 1. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Biennale, Sassen-Trantow | Catalog Galerie S & G Arte Contemporanea, Berlin |Catalog
Matthias Pabsch www.pabsch.de
Front Cover: Installation view / 2009, Photo: Falk Weiss Nameless Tower / 2012, Photo: Michael Bonvin Back Cover: Crystal City / 2010 Texts by Christoph Tannert
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