Bodo Sperling
Bodo Sperling ( born May 6, 1952 in Hanau ) is a German painter and conceptual artist.
Life
Bodo Sperling graduated from the entrance examination at the State Academy of Fine Arts - Städel School in Frankfurt, but decided for an art history studies at the University of Tübingen.
From 1980 came the first images of crystals and crystal panels. Since 1985 he is a computer as a design tool. Two of his computer paintings are of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe at the Museum.
In November 1989, Sperling served as CEO of the Association of Visual Artists in the course of negotiations for the merger of the two German artists' associations VBK and BBK in Berlin co-founder of the East Side Gallery. A well-known, publicly accessible work was painted by him the longest preserved section of the Berlin Wall section entitled The transformation of the pentagram to a peace star in a greater Europe without walls (East Side Gallery, Picture 18 ).
In 1992, the first all-German artist Congress in Potsdam took place, to the sparrow was delegated as the official representative of the Federal State of Hesse.
In 1991 he created at the national exhibition in Kassel, a video installation that " confronted with objective documentation of space-time " viewers, according to the philosopher Thomas Metzinger with. Here, a steel basin was installed on a ton of heavy stone altar in the crystals formed from a boiling solution. The entire process was documented over several weeks by an automatic camera.
In 1992 he installed on the first all-German artist Congress in Potsdam, a five-meter high mobile, which, illuminated by slide projectors, the impression of an ever- changing 3D movie produced.
During the renovation of the East Side Gallery is Sperling presented in 2009 at the head of a resistor (founder Initiative East Side ) of the artists whose works were removed against the wall, and criticized the lack of transparency and low financial resources of the artist as well as the infringement of copyright in the planned restoration of works of art. In May 2011, Sperling filed a lawsuit against the State of Berlin. The district court dismissed the action. Sperling had hoped for as a role model for other artists of his action. His lawyer spoke in this context of cultural blackmail. According to Kani Alavi, Chairman of the Association " Artists Initiative East Side Gallery eV ", it is Sperling " gone simply about money ."
Exhibitions (selection)
Collections, commissions, art in public space
- Museum of Contemporary Art, ZKM Karlsruhe, "B3", 1991, computer painting on silver photo canvas, 100 x 140 cm · " B7 ", 1991, computer painting on silver photo canvas, 100 x 140 cm, Karlsruhe
- Computer Associates, implementation of the architectural draft of the CA company building in a mural for the entrance hall 1.60mx 3.60m, acrylic on canvas and design basis of the East Side Galley image on the Berlin Wall in 1990, Darmstadt
- Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, implementation of the " Cathedral of Siena ", acrylic on canvas 2.20mx 90cm, Frankfurt / Siena