bewegung im stillstand (Thomas Bayrle)

Thomas Bayrle’s fourth solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider, bewegung im stillstand, features a new body of paintings alongside collages and film from the 1980s and 1990s. Guided by the presentation’s title - “idle movement” - each of the works on view in this unique constellation are centered on the interfaces between an accelerated modern life, systems in and of motion, and the nature that, against all odds, persists in their midst. Snaking escalators, uniform metropolises and traversing pedestrians become potted plants, floral motifs or overflowing bounties by way of Bayrle’s signature compositional approach, the Superform - developed as a pre-digital technique and expanded here. Subjects and their component parts, duplicated and reshaped, enter a dialog around the manufactured and the organic, evolved from close engagement with the art-historical legacy of the still-life.