A sheet of paper, a piece of string, a plastic bottle or a piece of fabric undergo a metamorphosis, transforming into something for which there are no names. Rodde has to invent them too: "Wandrager", "Wollhauben" or "Vielbein" are the names of the components of his world, which no longer has anything to do with the functionality of its "raw materials" - but instead opens up completely new spaces of perception. In three halls of the Leonhardi Museum, the artist not only brings together his works, mainly from the past ten years, but also creates an independent temporary work in them. With "Mittelstrecke", Christoph Rodde also draws an interim balance of his work, which makes us look forward to what is to come.
"For Christoph Rodde, a small piece of leftover soap - the scent too nice to throw away - was the beginning of a reflection on the artistic treatment of things. An art-historical reference, if one wants to look for it, can be art that was created using found materials: the newspaper cuttings and scraps of paper in the collages of Dadaism at the beginning of the 20th century, for example, the surrealist objet trouvé or the profane objects in the assemblages of the artists of Nouveau Realisme in the 1960s. "
- Dr Agnes Matthias -
Dr Agnes Matthias spoke at the opening on Friday 9 December at 8 pm.
The artist was present at the opening.
The Leonhardi Museum in Dresden exhibited drawings, objects and installations. A catalogue accompanying the exhibition, which also features images of the exhibition, was launched at a midissage on 31 January 2017 from 7 pm at the museum.
