Thomas Rentmeister
Thomas bailiff ( born March 4, 1964 in Reken ) is a German sculptor and professor at the College of Fine Arts in Braunschweig.
Life
From 1987-1993 bailiff studied at the Art Academy Dusseldorf with Günther Uecker and Alfonso Hüppi. In 1999 he took a teaching position at the School of Art Kassel. From 2002 to 2004 he was a visiting professor at the University of the Arts Berlin. From 2005 to 2006 he was a lecturer at the Art Academy Berlin- Weissensee. In 2007 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the College of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. Since 2009 he has been professor of sculpture there.
Thomas bailiff lives in Berlin.
Work
In the 1990s, bailiff was known with high gloss polyester sculptures to a wider audience. Some look like over-sized blobs, like other comic book characters. From 1999 to bailiff repeatedly used Nutella and Penaten cream for his work. He uses " household materials from industrial mass production - sugar cubes on cotton swab to paper handkerchiefs, sockets and all refrigerators. " They become sculptures.
" Never, his works are hermetic, self-contained works of art, the monads of the aesthetic, always let the identity of the art remote materials used to shine through. " The " disrespect with which this life and art " are merged, is "the most unusual aspect of this work ".
Rent Master refers to the formal and stylistic Minimal Art, " the strict form language, he picks up by a hefty pinch of Post-Pop and Dada nonconformity ". Ursula Panhans -Bühler found in his work the notion of " impure " minimalism.
In feature articles and exhibition catalogs Rentmeisters emphasizes humor: " His armor is the humor and his attitude that of a parodist. " He knew " light-footed and totally unemotionally form and content density with humor to reconcile ." But he should not only be seen as " Chefironiker ". Rent Master said to the Germany radio: " My works are always imbued with irony, but it is not the only drive I have. You could also leave out the irony, they would work as well. "
Bailiff and his work are beyond a one-dimensional setting. " Rentmeisters work oscillates between a pathetic Kunstwollen and a humorous art and institutional critique, between everyday life and art reference claim, in which he carefully avoids, to take a clear position. "
The philosopher Hannes Böhringer confirms the artist in his essay " broken fridge ": " All interpretations slide off him. " His fridge works background " a picture of the entropic final state of the art".
Stephan Berg called the " balancing act between seduction and repulsion, between the aesthetic and the unpleasant " as an important " engine work Rentmeisters "; the artist wants especially find the point " where the sweetness, the beauty turns into Disgusting, repressed, Inappropriate. " So pervades Rentmeisters oeuvre a " paradoxical Ambivalenzstrategie ". Go through with the theme of transience " discreet but nevertheless conspicuous for much of the oeuvre ."
Solo exhibitions (selection )
- 2012 Objects. Food. Rooms., Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
- 2011 Objects. Food. Rooms., Kunstmuseum Bonn
- 2008 Thinking in plants. Centraal Museum Utrecht
- 2007 more. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
- 2006 The holes of things. East Wall Museum, Dortmund
- 2005 Minimal Pop. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
- 2004 " stopover. Kunsthalle Nürnberg
- 2001 brown. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
- 1997 Centre d'art contemporain de Vassivière en Limousin. ( with Thomas Demand )
- 1995 Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Group exhibitions ( selection)
- 2013 Only sculpture! Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
- 2012 The Presence of Pictures - German Painting: Highlights from Six Decades. National Centre for Contemporary Arts ( NCCA ), Moscow
- 2011 On the Metaphor of growth. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
- 2011 Biomorph! - Hans Arp in dialogue with current artistic positions. Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck Remagen
- 2011 Transformed Objects. Kai 10 | Space for Art ( Arthena Foundation), Dusseldorf
- 2010 Portfolio Berlin Kunsthalle Rostock 01
- 2010 Eat Art Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
- 2009 Eating the Universe - Food in Art. Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
- 2009 Intemperie. 2nd Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia, Argentina
- 2009 KölnSkulptur 5 - Reality Check. Cologne Sculpture Park
- 2009 SIK - spridd isolerad const Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden
- 2009 Super Stories - 2de Triennial voor Beeldende art, fashion design s. Hasselt, Belgium
- 2008 The Man Leaving Earth. Columba (museum), Cologne
- 2008 ... 5 minutes later. KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
- 2007 The capital - Blue Chips & Masterpieces. Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
- 2006 Lang Leve Beeldhouwkunst! Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
- 2006 O Momento Suspendido - Colección H & F. Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
- 2005 M City. European cityscapes. Kunsthaus Graz
- 2004 Santo * ( first presentation of the permanent loan in the collection ), Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
- 2004 LAKE history in 2003. Kunsthalle zu Kiel
- 2001 close up Kunstverein Hannover
- 2000 Sculpture 2000. Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
- 1999 fashion of art. Art Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia, Dusseldorf
- 1997 plastic - an exhibition of contemporary sculpture. Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and Municipal Exhibition Hall Hawerkamp, Münster
Public collections (selection)
Works by Thomas bailiff in these collections represented ( in alphabetical order): Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck Remagen; Columba (museum), Cologne; Kunstmuseum Bonn; MARTa Herford; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; East Wall Museum in Dortmund U, Dortmund; Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Awards (selection)
- 2002 Piepenbrock Newcomer Award for sculpture
- 1996 grant from the Art Fund Foundation, Bonn
- 1988 Philip Morris Scholarship in Berlin