Exhibitions in Galerie Baer

42 Tage unter Tage. Die Kopf-Knie-Stellung.

Hannes Broecker

Hannes Broecker’s chief interest lies in the language of symbols and the aesthetics of public space. In his work prevailing classification systems and urban structures are translated and abstracted. He takes graffiti and slogans, colour codes from billboards and construction hoarding, reflective and crumbling façades that tell of power and powerlessness, and transforms them into painted images.
In a world chock-full of conventional presentations, his sculptures and installations seem to be even more of a balancing act between aggression and seduction than do his pictures: They obstruct entryways and defy insight, yet they entice the observer with the vivid force of strong colors as well as with unusual surfaces and materials.