Stefan Wissel: Painkiller

We are delighted to present Stefan Wissel’s third solo exhibition at Van Horn.

Stefan Wissel has many occasions to create new works: a song lyric he has picked up, a functional piece of furniture, a DIN-standardized building element, a film sequence, a company sign discovered in scrap metal, as well as striking works of contemporary art. All of this challenges him to create artistic interventions and new and re-enactments of existing elements. What always characterizes Stefan Wissel’s way of working is his alert, curious and often astonished view of objects and phenomena that many people do not even notice. In his work, Stefan Wissel not only shows the physical characteristics of each object, but also the barely comprehensible emotional content that is evoked when two unexpected things suddenly collide.

In his work, Stefan Wissel always reflects on questions of original and copy. He researches original authorship and commentary, he plays with theme and variation. He shifts the meaning of the object through simple gestures of lengthening or shortening, the manipulation of color, proportion, size and surface.