The exhibition catalogue Ernst Caramelle: A Résumé presents the continuous cross-references between media works (photos, videos, reproductions), wall paintings, the artist’s “Gesso Pieces,” drawings, watercolors, the “light works,” and prints. Looking at these cross-references allows us to understand the artist’s complex and rich concepts and images. Abstraction and symbolic figuration, including expressive floral formlessness, permanently interact in Caramelle’s work, as a means of testing out and the anarchic dissolution of boundaries, and an attitude toward the fixation and ideologies of all the various -isms. A Résumé will address the themes of artistic productivity, the role of the artist, his involvement in the market and the museum, and negotiations between institutions and artists. This involves pictorial wit, slapstick, diagrammatic forms, pataphysical strategies, comic-like elements, and linguistic quasi-aphorisms with nonsensical undertones.weiterlesen