Schmelzende Teilnehmung
Like emblems or icons, they allow the observer to discern a possible meaning beyond the confusion they provoke at first sight. But they reject a complete iconographic solution that would degrade the images to mere illustrations; rather, they draw the observer into a confusing game with wildly varying reference systems and const nothing more than an associative space for the recipient. The works of Scholl are thus narrative without being loquacious. The objects portrayed refer to people and stories, while simultaneously unfolding a wide range of meta- and sub-levels, whose meaning and relationship to each other can ultimately only be found in the artist himself.
Dennis Scholl, born 1980 in Hünfeld, Germany, studied from 2002 to 2006 at the Hamburger Hochschule für bildende Künste. 2010 his works will be exhibited at Busan Biennale, South Korea. Furthermore his work has been included to the group show „Genuine Illusions. Illusion and Reality in Art” at the Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg. His first institutional solo show has been dedicated to him in 2008 by the „Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg“. In 2009 he has been included to the group show „MAN SON 1969. Vom Schrecken der Situation“, Galerie der Gegenwart Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Text by Tanja Vonseelen on Schmelzende Teilnehmung. Courtesy Arndt Gallery