Berlin | ArtRegion: Berlin, Wilmersdorf

Mehdi Chouakri Fasanenplatz

Isabell Heimerdinger: Skies of Intense, Uncontaminated Beauty

12. Juni – 28. August 2021

What It Means To Be a Vase

In the exhibition „SKIES OF INTENSE, UNCONTAMINATED BEAUTY“, the artist surprises us with a new group of works in which, as in her films, installations, performances, and photographs, she poses questions about the conditions of artistic production. Isabell Heimerdinger has transformed Italian artist Salvo’s painted vases into ceramic objects—a process in which the artist translates the painted image into a new medium.

With this group of works, Heimerdinger finds an artistic answer to questions about the similarities and differences between painting and sculpture. This does not refer to the difference between an object of utility and an art object but to the dialectic between form/idea (Greek eidos) and image/representation (Greek eidolon). These two terms stem from Plato’s theory of images. Eidos is the sensually perceptible reality of forms, types, or shapes and can also include the general idea of an object, whereas eidolon provides a concrete depiction of eidos.