Reiner Ruthenbeck
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Reiner Ruthenbeck belongs to the generation of artists who questioned the existing forms of sculpture in the 1960s and developed new ways of working. As a trained photographer, he traveled to Paris in the 1950s, where he came into contact with Surrealism. Ruthenbeck's gaze through the lens was directed at the ordinary things of everyday life, which unfold their own life in silence. This magic also emanates from Ruthenbeck's first objects, in which one encounters the strange in the familiar.
Ruthenbeck's most unusual works are the piles of ash with which he became known around 1970. Coarse-grained slag is piled up into heaps that are crossed by square tubes or thin steel rods. The result is a situation of subtle tension between the heaps formed by gravity and the rigid steel. Ruthenbeck continued these thoughts in heaps of paper, fragile volumes in space. In his work, action solidifies into an image.
Ruthenbeck was fascinated by the sensual qualities of modest materials, from which works emerged as if by themselves. He preferred to work with wooden slats, cotton fabric and metal plates. His use of these materials was both simple and ingenious: decisions are kept to a minimum, shapes and tension are created by the weight and suspension of the material. This changes the appearance, impression and aura. Sculptural forms are not imposed on the material, they emerge as if by themselves. The titles of the works describe what can be seen. By arranging the materials in pairs of opposites - black/white, blue/red, hard/soft, open/hidden - Ruthenbeck creates an abstraction that negates the material and thus a feeling of unity, of wholeness, of calm. "Not fullness, but fullness!" was Ruthenbeck's motto.
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Adults: € 5,- // Art:card Düsseldorf/pupils/students: Free admission // Guided tour: € 50,-
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