For his solo exhibition PURE BLISS, Gary Schlingheider develops a site-specific concept that explores the boundaries of painting and sculpture. With his reduced formal language of monochrome colors, clean lines, and geometric surfaces, he creates an expansive composition that oscillates between surface and body.
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Schlingheider experiments with materials such as canvas, steel, aluminum, and acrylic, with his works displaying both gestural impulses and an industrial-looking precision. Inspired by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, as well as German Constructivism and Concrete Art of the 1960s, he combines minimalism with an open, structured visual language. Instead of a traditional emphasis on objects, he emphasizes the optical impact and aesthetic presence of his sculptures.
Gary Schlingheider, a master student of Prof. Christine Streuli at the Berlin University of the Arts (2017), has received, among other awards, the Manfred Fuchs Prize (2021), the Loth Sculpture Prize of art KARLSRUHE (2020), and the Diffring Prize for Sculpture (2017). He lives and works in Berlin and East Westphalia-Lippe.
