Claudia Wieser, Untitled

Claudia Wieser
Untitled
2006
Mirror, plywood and paint
39-1/3 x 39-1/3 x 1-3/4 inches (100 x 100 x 4.45 cm)

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by APT

About the Artwork

Executed in 2006, Untitled is an elegant example of Claudia Wieser’s Modernist-inspired constructions. In the present work, both the mechanisms of visual perception and the position of the viewer are confronted with a distorted mirror relief cut in a triangular pattern that interferes with the habitual process of contemplation and reflection. The multi-faceted mirror, a recurrent motif within the artist practice, owes its shape and regularity to the influence that geometric abstraction, in particular that of the work of the Bauhaus masters Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, has exerted on Wieser. Of the importance of this visual language in her practice, the artist has explained: “Sometimes I like the simplicity of forms and material in the Modernists works, which liberates the spirit.”

About the Artist

Claudia Wieser (b.1973, Freilassing, Germany) currently lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Munich, with Axel Kasseböhmer and Markus Oehlen. Selected solo exhibitons include Poems of the Right Angle, The Drawing Center, NY (2010); andIch und Du, with Bernd Ribbeck, Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany (2009). Wieser’s works have been included in group shows such as Das Interieur in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg (2015), Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2015); Goldrausch, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (2013); Jesse Jones, Lucy Skaer, Claudia Wieser, Signal - Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden (2013); Goldrausch, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg (2012); Asche und Gold, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany (2012); and Kosmos Rudolf Steiner, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart (2011).