Thilo Heinzmann
07 Nov - 23 Dec 2009
THILO HEINZMANN
07th November - 23rd December 2009
“Under the sign of Aphrodite we are not dealing with something heavy and darkly earthy, with an unconscious dissolution into a state of fusion, but rather with something bright and lucid. ?...] Through Aphrodite the whole world becomes pellucid and thus brilliant and smiling, because in her the opposites are dissolved into unity and this unity reveals to every living being the possibility of the same ?...? situation. Following her mythological birth from the ocean the primal unity in Aphrodite, which was broken by the bloody deed of Cronos, is restored through the fact that the severed male member was received in the sea’s maternal lap and there conceived the Great Goddess of love, the only one of the Titanic generation whose mother is not Gaia. [...] Shining in golden purity, Aphrodite, the male-female wholeness, makes pale every sort of partialness. She is present when wholeness emerges from the halves and when the resolved opposites become the indissolvable goldenness of life.” (Karl Kerényi, Goddesses of Sun and Moon)
The white background is the basis for Thilo Heinzmann’s paintings. White - a soothing non-existence, a neutralizing of the essential. He chooses materials with great confidence and extreme precision. His experience in handling and working the materials and his rich knowledge of their properties and interactions produce this translucency.
This is Thilo Heinzmann’s third solo exhibition in the Galerie Bernd Kugler.
Thilo Heinzmann studied at the Städel School of Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main; he lives and works in Berlin.
07th November - 23rd December 2009
“Under the sign of Aphrodite we are not dealing with something heavy and darkly earthy, with an unconscious dissolution into a state of fusion, but rather with something bright and lucid. ?...] Through Aphrodite the whole world becomes pellucid and thus brilliant and smiling, because in her the opposites are dissolved into unity and this unity reveals to every living being the possibility of the same ?...? situation. Following her mythological birth from the ocean the primal unity in Aphrodite, which was broken by the bloody deed of Cronos, is restored through the fact that the severed male member was received in the sea’s maternal lap and there conceived the Great Goddess of love, the only one of the Titanic generation whose mother is not Gaia. [...] Shining in golden purity, Aphrodite, the male-female wholeness, makes pale every sort of partialness. She is present when wholeness emerges from the halves and when the resolved opposites become the indissolvable goldenness of life.” (Karl Kerényi, Goddesses of Sun and Moon)
The white background is the basis for Thilo Heinzmann’s paintings. White - a soothing non-existence, a neutralizing of the essential. He chooses materials with great confidence and extreme precision. His experience in handling and working the materials and his rich knowledge of their properties and interactions produce this translucency.
This is Thilo Heinzmann’s third solo exhibition in the Galerie Bernd Kugler.
Thilo Heinzmann studied at the Städel School of Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main; he lives and works in Berlin.