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Joachim Bandau
The Far Side
Born in Cologne in 1936, and a student at the sculpture in 1978, and replaced biomorphs and the successive layers and juxtapositions, in solid black or
Art Academy of Düsseldorf from 1957 to 1961, Joa- technological means of his earlier works with strictly fleeting rectangular strata. While shades of grey water-
chim Bandau has been making sculptures, drawings, stereometric and architectural representations. He then color evoke photographic decomposition of movement,
and watercolors since the late 1960s which are at once created a new series of sculptures related to bunkers as if each were capturing successive movements of one
close to figuration and abstraction, geometric and bio- (1978-1980), consisting of wood covered with lead, block of color driven by incessant comings and goings
morphic forms, emotion and rationality. As embodied with a few openings on their sides suggesting inacces- in areas ranging from solidly opaque to more translu-
in The Far Side, though Bandau’s career encompasses sible space. Sometimes composed of several modules cent. Similar to his sculptures, Bandau’s watercolors
two periods of seemingly conflicting styles, both none- that can be grouped into compound ensembles or alter- distill simultaneous sensations of contraction and ex-
theless relay states of body and mind. natively dispersed in space, these continuously floor- pansion, the scope of which is both psychological and
From 1967 to 1974, Joachim Bandau creat- bound sculptures convey something remarkably distinct existential when expressing withdrawal or a demeanor
ed imposing polyester structures which he mounted on from the real world. They offer similar functions to re- open to the world.
wheels and covered with monochrome paint. Thanks to al-life bunkers in terms of protection and attack, or re- Although Joachim Bandau’s works have often
their rounded, sinuous shapes, these biomorphic sculp- treat and expansion, and appear as if at once consumed been compared to Minimalism, of which he was con-
tures with pipes and bolts in certain places can evoke by centrifugal, centripetal or otherwise highly adverse temporary, this is a limited view. Indeed, while the
medical equipment, mechanical organs, or sarcophagi forces in a way that Bandau continues to use in various declared purpose of purified, geometrical forms of
and empty coffins. Although their shapes and smooth series of sculpture up to today. Minimal Art involved release from emotional, anthro-
surfaces might make them appear to stem from sci- Since this period, Joachim Bandau has indeed pomorphic aspects, Joachim Bandau’s work heads the
ence fiction, they are actually laden with a vision of explored diverse possibilities for incorporating or ex- other way. Whereas the human body in Minimal Art is
alienated bodies at once protected and constrained by cluding metal parts, which can be disbanded or assem- used as an instrument external to the works, it is at the
modern technology. One of Bandau’s main themes here bled into self-contained blocks. Dispersed on the floor very heart of Bandau’s pieces with regards to both phys-
emerges: contrasting tension between confinement and or attached to walls, these sculptures conceal more ical and mental considerations. By reconciling rational
spatial deployment, with his sculptures’ potential for complex internal structures that are revealed when their thought with feelings, Joachim Bandau is the creator of
mobility here implied by wheels, and which he expand- parts are disassembled, as is the case with his Stelae emotional geometry.
ed upon as of 1976, with radically new means. series (1988-1989). Incessant motion from within to
From 1976 to 1978, Joachim Bandau brief- without, between withdrawal and spatial control, also Sarah Ihler Meyer,
ly retired from sculpture to devote himself exclusively suggested in Bandau’s watercolors on large sheets of art critic and independent curator
to large-format black and white drawings of geomet- white paper, created since the 1980s, and in which
ric, rectilinear bunkers. Bandau thereupon returned to the artist spreads multiple layers of light grey paint in
Kabinet-Mobil, Documenta 6, 1977
Sculptures 1968 - 1974
Kabinenmobile, Daimler Benz AG, Sindelfingen 1973
Grusinische Tänzer, 1971
Großes Weißes Hörchelmonument, 1968/69
Kunsthalle de Mannheim
Manta, 1971 o.T., 1971
Untitled, 1974 Silbernes Monstrum, 1970/71
Der Späher, 1974 Mannequin, 1974 Collection Musée national d’art modern - Centre de création industrielle du Centre Pompidou
Exhibition view Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, 2017. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel Studio view
Exhibition view Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, 2017. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel Exhibition view Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, 2017. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel
Fußfiguren, 1972
Kleines Hörchel, 1967Foltergerät (dispositif de torture), 1970 Weißes Duschtor, 1969
Drawing and sculptures 1978 - 2001
Kopffüßler, 1978Kopffüßler, 1978 Panzer - Bunker - Knast - Kirche, 1976
Beautiful settlement, 1977 Bunker - Architektur, 1977
Kastenbunker, 1977
Bunker IV, 1978Bunker V, 1978 B, 1979
Kammer, 1980/83 Stufung, 1984/85
B-GG IV, 1980
Klagelied: Das Bleifeld (le champ de plomb), 1974
Installation au Ludwig Museum, Köln 1997Räderstücke, 1982/83 Kippend, 1982
Wall pieces, 2005-2008 Die Wagen, 1995
überhängend, 1995
Stele, 1988Studio view
Geneigte Fläche, 19876 Kleine Spur, 1987 Pavillon de la Galerie Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal Tel Hai, Israel
Watercolor and lacquers
Courtesy l’artiste et Super Dakota Brussels / Credit photographique : Isabelle Arthuis
Super Dakota Brussels / Credit photographique : Isabelle Arthuis Super Dakota Brussels / Credit photographique : Isabelle Arthuis
Solo-shows Collective exhibitions
2017 Ophelia und das Mannequin, Neues Museum Nürnberg 2018 Art Cologne, Galerie maubert, Paris 2004 Deux arcs de cercle, Neue Werkgruppen in der Sammlung
2016 La face cachée / The far side, Galerie Maubert Drawing Now,Galerie maubert, Paris Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
2015 Joachim Bandau – Richard Serra, Sebatian Fath 2017 Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel 2002 Abstract Tendencies, The Drawing Center, New York
Contamporary, Mannheim Les Paradoxes de Zénon, Galerie Maubert, Paris 2001 Shoes or no shoes, Het Museum voor Schoene Kunsten, Gent
2011 Im Blickwinkel Architektur, Forum für Kunst und Kultur in 2015 Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Maubert, Paris 1999 4 from Germany, Ellypse Art Center, Arlington
der Euregio, Herzogenrath 2014 Private Preview Reception, SculptureCenter, New York Goethe Institut Washington, Washington
2010 Grusinische Tänzer 1971 und frühe Objekte 1968 – 1974, Painting and Beyond, kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn 1996 Sammlung R, Haus für Konkrete und Konstruktive Kunst,
Neues Museum Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, 2013 Eine Handvoll Erde aus dem Paradies, A Handful Earth from Zürich
Nürnberg the Paradise, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkussen Plätze und Platzzeichen, Städtische Museen, Heilbronn
2003 Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (im Zeppelin Museum), The End of the 20th Century: The Best Is Yet to Come, Eine 1994 Privatgrün, Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Köln
Joachim Bandau 2002
Friedrichshafen
Auf Grund, Kunstverein Marburg, Marburg
Ausstellung der Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum für Gegenwartskunst,Berlin
1992
1990
Ostsee - Biennale 1992, Kunsthalle, Rostock
Skulptur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949 - 1989,
German, b. 1936. Lives and works in Germany. 2001 Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen Embodying colour, Kunsthalle Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
1996 Museum Ludwig, Köln 2012 Contemporary Art from the Hanck Collection, Museum 1989 Maschinen - Menschen, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Jüdisches Museum, Berlin Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 1987 Inside-Outside: An Aspect of contemporary Sculpture,
Espace d’Art contemporaine, Demingny 2011 Transparency – Looking Throught, Vasarely museum, Museum van Heedendagse Kunst, Antwerpen
Along with Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt or Carl Andre, Joachim Bandau belongs to the generation of minimalist artists Salone Villa Romana, Florenz Budapest Tel Hai 87 Contemporary Art Meeting, Tel Hai, Israel
who have advocated the shape for the shape. In the 1960s, Bandau produces lacquered polyester containers reminding coffins or 1994 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Konkret – Konstruktiv – Minimal, NöArt Niederösterreich 1984 1984 Im toten Winkel, Kunstverein, Hamburg
sarcophagi. Then, he develops a series of Bunkers (steel “Floor Sculpture”). Since the 1990s, he juxtaposes transparent filters of 1992 Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim Gesellschaft für Kunst und Kultur, St. Pölten Orwell und die Gegenwart, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts,
light-gray watercolor to shape blocks of dark matter, reminding radiograph, but also Malevitch Suprematist compositions. 1991 Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2010 10 Jahre – 10 Künstler, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg Wien
1990 Museum van Heedendagse Kunst, Antwerpen Emblem, Joachim Bandau – Richard Serra – Richard Tuttle, 1983 Malmö Konstholl, Malmö
Joachim Bandau (b. 1936 in Cologne, DE, lives and works in Aachen, DE) belongs to an important group of German artists, along 1987 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto 1977 Documenta 6 / Fahrzeuge - Utopisches Design, Orangerie,
with Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, and Imi Knoebel, who came out of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1961. Joachim Bandau 1984 Kunstverein Bayreuth, Bayreuth West/Ost – Ludwigs Graphik 2, Ludwigforum für Internationale Kassel
has had numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at Museum Ludwig (Cologne); Neues Museum (Nürnberg); M HKA (Antwerp); 1981 Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen Kunst, Aachen 1975 Der ausgesparte Mensch, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim
SculptureCenter (New York); Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin); Haus der Kunst (Munich); Städtische Kunsthalle (Mannheim); Fine 1979 Kunsthalle und Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel 2009 Ron Klein Breteler Collection, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 1971 Aktiva, Haus der Kunst, München
Art Museum (Budapest); De Young Museum (San Francisco) ; Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels). Bandau’s work is present in many 1978 Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen Schiedam 1970 Jetzt, Künste in Deutschland heute’, Kunsthalle, Köln
important public collections, such as Centre Pompidou Museum (Paris), Kunstmuseum (Basel); Staatliche Kunstsammlungen 1975 Kunsthalle Köln, Köln Fläche und Raum, Sammlung Elfi und Hermann Rühl, 1969 14 x 14, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden
(Dresden); and Museum Ludwig (Cologne). 1972 Kunsthalle Nürnberg München 1968 Deutscher Kunstpreis der Jugend, Städtische Kunsthalle,
1971 Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen Neues Museum – Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Mannheim
Nürnberg 1966 K-66, Stadthalle Neuss, Neuss
Collections
La nature morte – n’est pas morte, Collection Beat Zoderer,
Musée national d’art modern - Centre Pompidou
Villa Langmatt, Baden
Aachen, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
Salon d’été, Galeria Arte Moderna et Contemporanea, Lisbon
Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel - Kupferstichkabinett
2008 Wollust – the presence of absence, Columbus Art Foundation,
Berlin, Jüdisches Museum
Leipzig
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Berlin
Perdus Dans L’Espace, Souterrain, Berlin
Brüssel, ING-Collection
2007 IKOB Collection, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen - Kupferstichkabinett
Ten Years of Collecting: Rembrandt to Thiebaud, Fine Arts
Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast
Museum of San Francisco – Achenbach Foundation for
Eupen (B), IKOB-Collection
Graphik Arts
Köln, Museum Ludwig
2006 Innere Sicherheit: Bunker Aesthetik,Marburger Kunstverein,
Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim
Marburg
München, Städtische Galerie im Lehnbachhaus
100 Jahre – 100 Köpfe, Das Jahrhundert Moderner Skulptur,
Nürnberg, Neues Museum Nürnberg
Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Arena der Abstraktion, Museum-Morsbroich, LeverkusenCONTACT Galerie Maubert 20 rue Saint-Gilles 75003 Paris www.galeriemaubert.com galeriemaubert@galeriemaubert.com Florent Maubert florent.maubert@galeriemaubert.com + 33 663558462 Charles Rischard charles.rischard@galeriemaubert.com +33 144780179
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