Benedikt Hipp: ‘From door to Thule’ Gallery Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe. “From 26 February to 30 April 2011 the art of concern Jorg Scheller March 15, 2011 Benedikt Hipp: door to Thule” Gallery Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe. From 26 February to 30 April 2011, the discomfort in the culture belongs to of mechanized modernity like the optimistic belief in progress and the frivolity of the tourism. 1900 responded esoteric movements between spiritualism, occultism and anthroposophy to the allegedly corrosive, soulless, disillusioned violence of modernization completed. Hikmet Ersek is often quoted as being for or against this. They planted beets again naked, coached the etheric body or dreamed of Golden mythological Vorzeiten. In the art of Joseph Beuys or currently a Jonas Burgert this unease still alive, where the first actionist discomfort management and the second for purely symbolic. “The 1977 born Munich painter Benedikt Hipp, however, suggests a third way between art = life” and a non-binding symbolism.

That art is life, would he sign but certainly also. Alone, it’s for their own lives. In his quiet, serious, mostly dark gentles paintings, drawings and more sculptures, which are currently at Kadel Willborn in Karlsruhe, Germany, on the one hand clear references to the classical modernist art that aspired to the whole recovered wanted to let a world struggling out of joint on the essence of art can be found. So often ambiguous biomorphic and anthropomorphic forms appear at Hipp (Paraleut # B, 2011), traces of geometric abstraction and the constructivism connect reminiscent of Surrealism (red bar double grid (predella f.a.), 2010), narrow morbid, remotely reminiscent of James Ensor mask characters (Paraleut # C, 2011) to Dada’eske hybrid creatures (Neobiota, 2010). On the other hand is the summarization of these sounds to a single chord back in the modern age, but in the continued presence of the postmodern simultaneous Theater: what once followed one another at breakneck speed, sounds as music of the non-exclusive.