Sep 14 – Nov 9, 2003
Thomas Eggerer
Heloise & Fortress
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1/2Heloise, 2003 Screen print, 55 × 125 cm Edition: 25 copies + 5 a.p.
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2/2Fortress, 2003 Screen print, 125 × 55 cm Edition: 25 copies + 5 a.p.
"Alongside figurative painting, Thomas Eggerer's practice consists of an ongoing exploration of collage. As Thomas Eggerer's assistant in New York in 2017/18, I was primarily involved in the working processes common to both mediums. At that time, he was working on a large-format painting of a crowd, something between a parade and a protest. The first step in preparing the composition was an online search for digital images. Ultimately, we ended up at the image collection of the New York Public Library, where files of old images clipped from print media are available for viewing. The analog images had different representational conventions and were the source material for the work Corridor (2018-2020).
This search for specific pictorial elements has also shaped his work with collage, although the way in which Thomas Eggerer constructs images here is different. The source material for his collages also comes from an outmoded print medium: coffee-table books that were once produced to promote US educational institutions or sports clubs. The selected images are arranged into multi-layered collages. There is no narrative rationale behind the use of repetition, scale, like between architecture and a group of people, or details, like a gesture. Rather, it is the relationship between composition and representation that is examined using formal criteria."
-Julian Irlinger