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DSAM 1176 #2880

2015

Size

140 x 100 cm
55 x 39.37 in

Year

2015

Medium

Drawings

Reference

5e013529

pigments and resins on multiplex

1962 Bochum, Germany

Dirk Salz was born in 1962 in Bochum, Germany. After high school, he studied engineering at the RWTH Aachen. From 1979 to 1981, Dirk received private lessons in painting, drawing and art history. Since then, he was continuously guided and educated by various artists. He started his own career in 2002.

The artist focuses his work on simple forms and the transparency of color, playing with impressions of depth, which are not imposed through planes or complex compositions, but through their reduction. His images are placed on smooth surfaces that serve as metaphorical mirrors for the viewer, mirrors that reflect the viewer’s own image within the space, and the possibilities of our relationship with it.

His works open up an experience of shifting between their various depths and planes, but at the same time hold our own place next to them, not within them. Because the concept of reflection is inherent to Dirk’s artistic investigation of space. In addition to exploring space, Salz’s works impose on us a question of temporality and the role of time in our perception of space. Time is a category that comes before space, which is necessarily more internal and allows outer space to be revealed.


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The Galerie Robert Drees was founded in Hannover in 1999 and is now the leading gallery for contemporary art in the North German state capital. Located in a former factory building with over 300 square meters floor space, it shows five to six exhibitions a year. The internationally oriented program encompasses artists who have already established themselves ...

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