It is from this perspective that we approach the work of Joachim Böttcher, who studied painting and graphic art in Dresden under Herbert Kunze and Gerhard Kettner and, after his time as a master student of Werner Stötzer, created an independent sculptural oeuvre in Berlin.
"Joachim Böttcher's work revolves around a theme that is as complex as it is archaic, as inexhaustible as it is fundamental. It is about the tectonics of the image and its relationship to the tectonics of nature - both animate and inorganic. You could also describe it the other way round: It is about the observation of nature and the invention of a form that does not repeat its organisation, certainly not depict it, but recreates its principles in spatial and planar formations. Sculpture, painting, collage, drawing and graphics are the media of this work, the economy of the essential determines its inner law and also the material. It protects against stylisation as well as excited artificiality. Böttcher's works are not narrative, but they are not meditative either. Somehow they don't seem to know the difference between nature and culture, even though they belong entirely to art."
- MATTHIAS FLÜGGE - in the exhibition catalogue
Catalogue
A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition.