Wolfram Ullrich on his second solo show in Italy with Reliefs at MAC in Lissone

After the recent anthological exhibition dedicated to him by the Museo Marca in Catanzaro, Wolfram Ullrich (Würzburg, 1961) is at his second solo show in an Italian public institution. For the MAC in Lissone, where Ullrich will be present from Feb. 23 to April 21, 2019 with the exhibition Reliefs, the artist has selected a series of reliefs/reliefs from the 1990s and 2000s that redefine museum spaces through their perspective incongruity. Challenging our cognitive sphere, Ullrich’s works invite us to continually change our point of view, approaching or receding, breaking down and recomposing geometric surfaces in order to be able to unravel the simple - but ingenious - mechanism that obeys and at the same time transgresses visual faculties. Breaking free from the limits that distinguish sculpture from painting, Ullrich is wont to claim his training in painting at the Stuttgart Academy, an experience that led him to the “highest degree of objecthood.” His meticulous geometries are indeed, and first and foremost, objects capable of evading the tautology of materials and the force of gravity.

The research of Ullrich (born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1961) comes to precision around the mid-1980s with a rational but not merely intellectual framework. Later the artist experiments with steel materials and decides to investigate the inconsistencies between reality and appearance; from the 1990s onward his interest focuses on the atmospheric effect of color, an element that enhances the virtuality of the formal construct, increasingly combining the fiction of painting with the physicality of sculpture. After working systematically on single works, the artist matures a particular predilection for polyptychs, through which he investigates the different morphologies of the same polyhedron.

Sensing that the essence of art is to be pursued in its manual execution even more than in its mental execution, Ullrich designs and constructs painting (in the sense that he assembles it, part by part). In addition to giving ample prominence to the artist’s “reliefs,” the Lisson exhibition also includes the recent Orbits, ellipses that punctuate the walls according to unusual ogive, an artifice that enshrines the logical landing place of a now 30-year quest.

The exhibition opens Feb. 23 through April 21.

Pictured: Wolfram Ullrich, MODES IV (1992; acrylic on steel, 50x150x10 cm).

Source: press release

Wolfram Ullrich on his second solo show in Italy with Reliefs at MAC in Lissone

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