Dennis Loesch Open As Smart Object 24.03.2012 – 20.04.2012 EN DE DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM is pleased to present OPEN AS SMART OBJECT a solo exhibition by Berlin-Hamburg based artist Dennis Loesch. OPEN AS SMART OBJECT – by Joy Kristin Kalu When visual artists started extending their support media into three dimensions, they chose between two ostensibly contrary avenues. A comparison between Robert Rauschenberg’s and Frank Stella’s works from the 1950s illustrates the difference most clearly: Rauschenberg’s Combine Paintings mixed found everyday materials, often specimens of popular culture, which protrude from the flat support medium into space; Stella, by contrast, used slightly deeper stretcher frames for his Black Paintings, which made the objecthood of his geometrically structured and reduced pictures conspicuous. In this regard, Stella’s work was an obvious precursor of the so-called Minimal art that Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, and others would produce in the 1960s, using standardized and sometimes mass-produced objects and installing them in rigorously geometrical arrangements on the wall or floor. Whereas 1960s Pop art subscribed to representation and an aesthetic modeled on advertising, media, and product design, Minimal art refused to represent anything beyond the materiality of its objects. The focus was on the self-referential quality of the works. instagram facebook OPENING HOURS Mon-Sat: 11.00AM — 6.00PM CONTACT DETAILS Dittrich & Schlechtriem ConceptStore GmbH Linienstrasse 23, 10178 Berlin, Germany Phone +493024342462 info@dittrich-schlechtriem.com