 Felix Müller (born 1969) studied at the School of Art and Design Berlin-Weißensee. Since 1990 he has realized numerous projects and exhibits in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and the in United States. He produces animated films (Super 8/Video) and illustrates silk-screen (copy technique) art books for the Parkwart-Publishing house in Berlin, of which he is a founding member. One of his illustrated books can be found in the Martha Wilson Art Book Collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In his latest works on display here, Felix Müller employs a combination of materials. Acrylic glass plates with an adhesive cut-out image on their reverse side are laid over a hand painted wooden background. The results are technically executed collages of exceptional subject matter, characterized by the contrast between the precise graphic outlines of the computer processed forms of the foreground and the softer, hand painted layer underneath.
Müller works with typologies and codes and draws his pictorial vocabulary from the lifestyle, business and consumer worlds. Through his particular selection of subject matter and the reduction of forms to precise outlines, his subjects take on an icon-like quality. His figures are reduced to two-dimensional cut-outs, are removed from their larger, original context and placed alongside everyday objects. In his latest works Müller’s cut-out figures operate increasingly against an acrylic and graphite painted background.
A catalogue of Felix Müller's work with accompanying texts by Peter Lang and Roland Stelter will be availabe on the 22nd of July.
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