Heinz Gappmayr Grafik

15 October 2020
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Heinz Gappmayr (1925-2010) is the main representative of visual poetry in German-speaking countries. Since the late 1960s he made language the material of his work. Signs, words, numbers and basic geometric shapes are presented visually by him in order to examine the categorical possibilities of language. Gappmayr uses language to depict ideas and concepts that cannot be represented graphically due to their abstract nature. In his work on concrete poetry, the artist points out that concepts are ideas and can therefore encompass an infinite number of possible objects and ideas.

These considerations led to the text images, which occupy a special position in Gappmayr's oeuvre. In these works he tries to depict concepts that are not depictable, but are the basis of all empirical knowledge. The two a priori terms »time« and »space« play a central role in Heinz Gappmayr's work.

The term ›time‹ is contained in the term »memory« because it refers to something past, and »anticipated proximity« is actually a spatial text, because any type of »proximity« implies a spatial distance between people or objects – or the distance between properties or ideas in terms of content.

On the occasion of her 41st birthday, Galerie Dr. Dorothea van der Koelen shows works by Heinz Gappmayr, Fabrizio Plessi, Günther Uecker and Raimund Girke as part of the exhibition »4 + 1 = 41 Perception and Memory« from October 24, 2020.

Works

Heinz Gappmayr - sichtbares Rot erinnertes Rot
Heinz Gappmayr
sichtbares Rot erinnertes Rot ‧ 1993/00
Aquatec auf Leinwand über Holz, 164 x 240 cm, WVZ 1404/93
Heinz Gappmayr - weiss
Heinz Gappmayr
weiss ‧ 1967/2020
Originaldruck, 46 x 33 cm, Aufl. 30 Ex., WVZ 0153/67
Heinz Gappmayr - Wahrnehmung Erinnerung
Heinz Gappmayr
Wahrnehmung Erinnerung ‧ 2020
Originaldruck, 46 x 33 cm, Aufl. 30 Ex., WVZ 0297/73

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Publications

OPUS Heinz Gappmayr Band 3
Dorothea van der Koelen
OPUS Heinz Gappmayr Band 3
Gesamtverzeichnis der visuellen und theoretischen Texte 1997-2004

2005

68,– €
OPUS Heinz Gappmayr Band 2
Dorothea van der Koelen
OPUS Heinz Gappmayr Band 2
Gesamtverzeichnis der visuellen und theoretischen Texte 1991-1996

1997

72,– €
OPUS Heinz Gappmayr Band 1
Dorothea van der Koelen
OPUS Heinz Gappmayr Band 1
Gesamtverzeichnis der visuellen und theoretischen Texte 1961-1990

1993

76,– €

Publications about Heinz Gappmayr

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