Camill Leberer

5.23 ~ 6.13, 2007

Born in Breisgau Germany, Camill Lerberer artworks' is characterized by ambivalence on the effects of the various materials and the non-materiality of its radiation, which changes in time and again under new conditions, which presents a new experience of space. They are art objects that can either be clearly assigned to painting or sculpture. In a very peculiar way they create space and give the viewer an experience in a constantly changing and renewing manner. Camill Leberer states: "To me, sculpture means to create an atmosphere that goes beyond the space the sculpture occupies."

The material of his paintings is steel, which combines with the elements of grinding, color and light. His method in grinding on steel gives the material emotion with dynamic power. Leberer depicts color with depth color such as black, white and yellow which one can reconstruct how different aspects of colorfulness lead to very different effects of space. His basis is a rational principle of creation, opening up to a very complex, non-material, sensually and intellectually founded experience of space. Nonetheless, it is apparent that his works are set in an area between reflection and instinctive intuition.

In contrast to earlier sculptures and paintings recalling associations of organic forms, today a more universal abstract form repertoire is divulged as well as a pictorial language that denies any functional or contextual relationships.

Camill Leberer's works are in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Kunsthalle Mannheim, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Museum fur Moderne Kunst Wien, Kunstsammlung Bundesrepublik Deutschland and many other important public and private collections worldwide.