Christiane Beer, QUIET IN MOTION

Room 21

«Sculpture for me means creating a position, standing in historical circumstances, but also subjective experience and thought. A position that oscillates between classical and romantic imagination. On the one hand the attraction for the idea, abstraction, truth, nothingness, structure… And on the other, direct experience, subjectivity, physicality, sensuality. Sculpture as presences, what is, what exists. Presence, a present, which includes and alludes to a past and a future, but also to a timelessness, a non-time.»
Christiane Beer

«Her works, often composed of an alphabet of bars – almost piano keys – have a mathematical precision, not derived from table calculations of proportions, but gushing out of an internal and unconscious mental geometry that often becomes a spasmodic search for a perfect angle. Christiane’s choice of field is that of minimalism, to which she makes no concessions, not even when she invents a white vertical sea, and the waves are half bars within longer bars. And the colour is always that of raw material, at least for now.»
Francesca Pini

THE ARTIST

Christiane Beer was born in Plauen in Saxony in 1965. She studied in Stuttgart and Milan, where she was taught by Giuseppe Spagnulo. She currently lives and works between Milan and Munich. In 1994 she exhibited at the Sophien – Edition Gallery in Berlin, in 1995 at the Mitten Gallery in Wasserburg, in 1998 at the Gedolk Gallery in Stuttgart, in 2000 at the Grossetti Gallery in Milan and in 2009 at the Arte Silva Gallery in Seregno. Two of his latest installations have been chosen to dialogue with certain public spaces in the city of Milan: Horizont-Variationen was installed in 2008 in the art space of Bocconi University and Ort (luogo) was exhibited in April 2009 in the square in front of the church of San Carlo al Corso and subsequently purchased by Count Panza di Biumo, to be placed in the garden of his villa in Varese.