Touching Relating Dividing / New works by Thomas Müller



Opening: Tuesday 17th April 2012 6-9pm
Exhibition dates: 18th April to 19th May 2012


Thomas Müller, Untitled, Ballpoint and Indian ink on Arches paper, 160 x 115 cm, 2012


Touching Relating Dividing,  Thomas Müller at Patrick Heide CA
Photo by Marcus Leith





Touching Relating Dividing,  Thomas Müller at Patrick Heide CA
Photo by Marcus Leith



Touching Relating Dividing,  Thomas Müller at Patrick Heide CA
Photo by Marcus Leith



Patrick Heide Contemporary Art is pleased to present ‘Touching Relating Dividing’, the second solo exhibition in London of German artist Thomas Müller. ‘Touching Relating Dividing’ will feature an installation of recent drawings, hung in the usual open grid manner, and 3 large-scale works on paper.

The title of the exhibition derives from the title of Müller’s latest catalogue, published by the Centre for Recent Drawing in London together with Patrick Heide Contemporary Art in 2011. The catalogue concentrates on the variety, process and essential qualities of the German artist’s drawing practice and will be available at the opening and throughout the exhibition.

Since the mid 90ties Müller has worked exclusively with the medium of drawing, exploring an endless spectrum of media and motives where no routine is allowed. Always non figurative, each drawing is a renewed and fresh exploration into process, composition and material.

Blue and purple ballpoint pen drawings of dense thin parallel lines are created next to drawings with lines and loose grids in green and violet oil or marks and spots in Indian ink. Motifs of organic weaving in black crayon are opposed to almost imperceptible doodles in graphite or colour pencil.
All works are nevertheless linked in spirit and interact with each other in spite of their variety. Müller’s typical installation method, rows of A4 drawings hung in open and broken groupings of always the same distance, allows the eye to wander and underlines the connections between the drawings but also brings out new aspects amongst the works. As Patrick Heide states in the accompanying invitation text: “Müller understands (like very few artists) how to let drawing develop in any direction, where the next drawing can be the missing type, yet capture its essence at the same time.”

In ‘Touching Relating Dividing’, an installation of A4 drawings will map out a good part of the main gallery space downstairs, covering it from floor to ceiling.
Yet Müller has always been engaging with larger surfaces as well, and has demonstrated his talent and ability on this scale. Three drawings of even larger format than in the last London exhibition will be presented, amongst them an enormous blue ballpoint pen drawing: realized by placing a caliber formed after a piece of glass on the paper surface, Müller traces its edges to then move the caliber spirally, creating flowing waves that cover the full extent of the paper to an imposing visual impact.

Thomas Müller studied painting and drawing at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Stuttgart as well as German literature at the University of Stuttgart. He had museum exhibitions in Germany, France, Switzerland, USA and Iceland. His drawings are collected internationally and form part of high profile private collections such as the Guerlain collection in Paris or the Frankel collection in the US.
Prominent museums such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kunstmuseum Bonn and Stuttgart and the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin hold larger numbers of his drawings in their collections.
In 2010 he was shortlisted for the prestigious Prix de Dessin Contemporain of the Fondation Guerlain.
Thomas Müller lives and works in Stuttgart.     



Patrick Heide Contemporary Art

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Richard Serra

"The torqued ellipses, spirals, spheres and toruses exist in the polarity between the downward force of gravity, their weightlessness and their upward rise in elevation which attempts to attain a condition of weightlessness. 
The sculptures are not objects separated in space but on the contrary they engender the spatial continuum of their environment. They impart from to the entire space, they shape the space through axes trajectories and passages between their solids and voids. 


I titled this installation the matter of time because it is based on the idea of multiple or layered temporalities. As one experiences each work in the context of the entirety of the installation one will become aware of the obvious diversity of durations of time.
The meaning of the installation will be activated and animated by the rhythm of the viewer's movement. Meaning occurs only through sontinuous movement, through anticitation, observation and recollection.

However, there is no prescribed view, no preferred sequence, no preferred succession of views. Each person will map the space differently. There is an unlimited range of individual experiences, but they all take place over time.
When I talk about time, i do not mean 'real' time, clock time. The perceptual or aesthetic, emotional or psychological time of the sculptural experience is quite different from 'real' time.
It is non-narrative, discontinuous, fragmented, de-centred, disorienting. "

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/piece/?search=Richard%20Serra&page=2&f=People&cr=12

Accumulation @ ParisCONCRET






"Large scale images which have emerged over time as the residue of repeated actions."



ParisCONCRET is a project space for non-objective art
created by Richard van der Aa





DRAWING NOW @ PARIS




Clément BAGOT


Had an interesting day at the  DRAWING NOW in paris (artistic director : Mr Philp Piguet )

The official award winner for 2012 is Mr. Clément BAGOT  - congratulation!
Personally, i think the uncrowned prince of the salon throughout the last three years is Thomas Muller, i admire his work.

it was fascinating to note how works by different artists converse.
Thomas vinson - frank badur, Corinne Laroche - Pietra bloch,  Károly Keserü - Lucie Beppler, German Stegmaier - Hanns Schimansky  ( what a beautiful collection of works )

not to suggest the works are similar, but that the wide range of generations and mediums, creates a context in which each proposition gains in clarity and results in a concentrated dose of high quality drawings.  



 Thomas Muller


 Frank Badur


 Thomas vinson


Corinne Laroche 


Pietra bloch


Károly Keserü




Lucie Beppler. 

German Stegmaier




Hanns Schimansky 

Iannis Xenakis








Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this is the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’s original works on paper. Included are rarely-seen hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores. Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary is co-curated by Xenakis scholar Sharon Kanach and critic Carey Lovelace and will travel to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (June 17 – October 17, 2010) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (November 7, 2010 – February 13, 2011). 

http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm?exh=662

Drawing Now

Drawing Now Paris I Le Salon Du Dessin Contemporain, from thursday the 29th of March to Sunday 1st of april at the Carrousel du Louvre is the first contemporary art fair exclusively dedicated to contemporary drawings. For its 6th edition, the fair will welcome 82 international galleries and present a HORS LES MURS.

http://drawingnowparis.com/