ArtistsErik Schmidt
Erik Schmidt, City Center, 2019
Erik Schmidt’s practice has focused on urban landscapes he encountered during his travels. Combining the mediums of painting and photography, the artist overlays, paints, and synthesizes the photographed landscapes through his gesture. Erik Schmidt explores, maps, and transforms pictorial spaces. The colors, applied in thick, vibrant strokes of paint over enlarged prints of his own photographs, cover portraits and urban landscapes, condensing into lines, signs, and serial motifs. The photography becomes underlying, with architectural lines accentuated by these bursts of color, and the dynamic, nervous strokes recreate urban landscapes and the attitudes of passersby.
Erik Schmidt (born 1968) lives and works in Berlin.
He has participated in solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, MARTa Herford in Herford, Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Germany, Matsumoto City Museum of Art in Matsumoto, Japan, Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Austria, and Artists Space in New York.
His works are featured in numerous public collections, including .
MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany; Leopold- Hoesch-Museum Düren, Düren, Germany; N.B.K. Videosammlung Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Sammlung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin; Deutsche Bank Collection, Berlinische Galerie, Videosammlung, Berlin; Ifa, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in Germany; CGAC, Santiago de Compostela; Fundació la CAIXA.
Galerie Claire Gastaud