Achilles pursues path of his own with these environments as total surroundings.

This journey is both processual and solitary. At the beginning of this art there is the drawing, from which an entire microcosm of the psyche develops in an allover state that involves the entire surroundings.  The previously deconstructed materials and objects from the immediately accessible world of consumer goods, as well as from the world of advertising, are brought together again now in an unorthodox way, exposing their fragile elements. From washed out leaves and foils, which have been drawn on in places, smashed and hammered panes of car glass, whose safety film finishes hold together the cracks and fragments of the formerly intact panes, Achilles changes everything into a new form. Automobile tires, toasters, and axes mutate into objects, which have a conjured effect. An autobiographical world of the psyche that concerns us all, but which we have suppressed, is shown here, subtly, sometimes powerfully, having been quietly dragged to the surface. Whereas in early works, there were entire rooms of flashing curtains of fluorescent tubes whipping about, making the video posters break into a sweat, and whereas once countless artist booklets were washed at his work place in the tears of his former lover, the artist now pursues a path of metamorphosis, a sort of reconstruction in lightsalt essences. From the light, to the damp tears, in the solution of the perpetually returning of what is artificially real, he attains an unbearable transparency, which promptly crumbles, only to conjure up this transformation. Simply Humanachilles in the self-portrait of his grandmother, who reworked herself, is a true relic, whose auratic power could scarcely have unfolded more intensively in a West-African shrine if a juju man had done it himself. In this way, and transferred into the space of a western culture, pop-mythological figures come about. And if there had been powers functioning as spiritual godparents, then they would have to stem from Gerhard Richter for the abstraction, Thomas Hirschhorn with respect to the material, Richard Prinz concerning the reproduction as well as Felix G. Torres in terms of the physical.

Björn Achilles studied at the Hochschule für Kunst Stuttgart , the Kunsthochschule Kassel with Prof. Urs Lüthi, and graduated from the Städelschule Frankfurt with Prof. Bayerle, becoming his master student in 2005. Countless participations in exhibitions, particularly in off-spaces, are in keeping with his artistic attitude.

For this reason, zone E takes special pleasure in having been able to gain over this artist with his radical-essential works for our program.

We are expecting a total environment surrounding, and would be delighted if you were there to join us.

Further Infomation about Björn Achilles

Pictures of Exhibition

The exhibition shows autobiographical photographs of the 80's. With these images Gosbert Adler received the first scholarship for contemporary german photography (Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, 1982). zone E presents this work in a new edition.

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Further Infomation about Thomas Kemper

Pictures of Exhibition