Timo Klöppel's works are puzzles in space, experiments with perspectives, studies of the dynamics between inwardness and outwardness. Klöppel creates spaces – that are both material and spiritual – in order to explore their effects on his own psyche. He is permanently communicating with his material: He questions it, examines what it is made of, dismantles it and puts it back together. With Klöppel, material is a quasi-subject. It is a partner that can and should be listened to.
His installations reflect the formal language of conceptual art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the legacies of primitivism and cosmology. His rooms and sculptures are physical and metaphysical labyrinths, expressions of a contemplative sense of space, apart from standard narratives.
For the enblanco project space, Klöppel has built a model of a world: a divided globe, whose two parts are attached to opposite walls, the exteriors facing each other. Nie löst sich etwas Leben vom Leben und steht alleine da (Never do any life-parts detach themselves from life and remain standing alone) is the title of the work. Reminiscent, a bit, of Goethe's Kein Wesen kann zu nichts zerfallen (No being can dissolve to nothing). Separation is not taking place on a physical but on a conceptual level. Separation itself is a hypothesis, not able to represent the dynamics of reality. Is the material of the globe more or less separated, if instead of the interior parts the exterior parts are facing each other? What is holding it together? Its form? Or its power of attraction?
Timo Klöppel is working on the energetic reality of the spatial. Paradoxically, as a sculptur he is not concerned with the corporeal, but with the ethereal state of the shifting balance of forms and colors. He constructs sensible situations which sensitize the viewer and stimulate her to participate. Klöppel sees his works as offers to talk – and the feedback from the viewer is a fundamental element, one that is constantly modifies the meaning of the work.
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