Andreas Karl Schulze
DCDOIDO
18. August – 28. September 2010

THE CHARMING DISCRETION OF OBVIOUS INCONSPICUOUSNESS OF DISCREET ORNAMENTATION

As part of the Arnsberg Summer of Art, the artist Andreas Karl Schulze (Cologne, born 1955) has assembled 10 small, coloured squares of fabric at 19 locations in Arnsberg's city centre to form a repeating group of shapes as part of an interventionist art project.
The colour scheme and sequence make it difficult to immediately read this form as a pixel-like question mark. But the entanglement of the signs with their surroundings also obscures their legibility as painting. The perception of the meaning of the actual and the found becomes blurred. The size or smallness of the formal elements, the discreet appearance and sometimes deliberately concealed appearance of the signs are an essential part of the artist's deliberate avoidance strategy. A.K. Schulze: "It's about not making common cause with bold, populist street furniture in favour of an open, flexible and entangled perception."

A city map with the positions of the interventions marked on it invites visitors to discover and search for beauty, happiness and humour in everyday life.

Andreas Karl Schulze, born 1955 in Rheydt, lives in Cologne. Studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf/Münster. Teaches at the Karlsruhe/Freiburg Art Academy, Copenhagen and KHM Cologne.

Exhibitions in Berlin, Münster, Marfa/Texas, Reykjavik/Iceland, Cologne, Osaka/Japan, Melbourne, Oslo, Basel, London, among others.

The project is a collaboration between the Kunstverein Arnsberg and the cultural office of the city of Arnsberg for the Kunstsommer.