Project #16: Hein Spellmann
02. August - 27. October 2024
Hein Spellmann
Bank 1, 2023
silicone, acrylic, CLC print, foam, wood
12,8 × 24,8 × 3,5 inches
(32,5 × 63 × 9 cm)
Unikat
< 15 /20 >
02. August - 27. October 2024
Hein Spellmann
Bank 1, 2023
silicone, acrylic, CLC print, foam, wood
12,8 × 24,8 × 3,5 inches
(32,5 × 63 × 9 cm)
Unikat
< 15 /20 >
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Project #16: Hein Spellmann
DavisKlemmGallery Projektraum, Kirchstraße 4, 65239 Hochheim am MainProject #16: Hein Spellmann
THE ARTIST
Hein Spellmann, born in 1962 in Bassum, Lower Saxony, lives and works in Berlin. He combines photography and object art in his work. With three-dimensional images of building façades, he focuses on urban architecture. Elements such as tilted windows, reflections in the windows or insights into the interior of a building break through the neutrality of photography and architecture.
MATERIALS
For Hein Spellmann, photography does not remain two-dimensional. He applies his photographs to three-dimensional foam bodies that he produces. Using silicone as a sealant, the photographs shine like the modern building facades and their windows. The rounded edges do not provide a clear frame and so the objects look like their very own buildings.
PRODUCTION
The details of city facades play the main role in Hein Spellmann's work. Colors, grids and reflections take the foreground. For the project space, he takes a step back and captures the reflections, perspectives and different levels of urban architecture and not just sections of buildings. The city of Frankfurt was his model for Project #16. He puts the focus on the shiny elements of the city: silver and golden structures. In doing so, he also ambiguously documents the banking metropolis of Frankfurt.
INFLUENCE
Architectural photography usually captures the original architectural character: street lamps, bus stops, curtains or other things that indicate real use are concealed. Spellmann also conceals these elements. Nevertheless, his buildings are real, they stand in the world as used objects. They reflect this world or have been appropriated by it. In addition to technical architectural photography, Spellmann's works also contain elements of portraits. The portrait of a building, of a city with all its characteristics.
INSTALLATION
For the project space, Hein Spellmann combines his three-dimensional objects with large-format photographs that he has taken on his expeditions through urban spaces. He plays with perspectives, repetitions, vertical and horizontal lines. Steel, glass and stone alternate with blue sky, a shop window with a futuristic-looking mannequin and here and there people on the move in the concrete jungle. Closeness and distance, height and depth, hardness and softness - the photographic view and the installation fit together. They reflect what Hein Spellmann emphasizes here as the core of a city.
THE SPACE
The 20 m² room, in which pens and exercise books were previously sold, is now available to artists from the DavisKlemmGallery as a project space. Instead of regular but limited opening times, the room can be viewed around the clock: the entire room and thus the project can be viewed at all times thanks to the large window front. Changing projects, installations, works of art and artists can be discovered here. The current presentation will be on view until October 27th, 2024.
