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Zimmermann repeatedly takes up those topics: Destruction, decay and oblivion. He knows: Even the cheerful hours are not any more than memories. When time passes unstoppably, it is the thoughts that remain. It does not matter, whether beautiful moments, loved ones or accustomed places, everything is subordinate to the offense. They can be preserved in the memory of a person as memories, however only for a short time. Gradually these will also fade. Holger Zimmermann’s work is a monument to the past. With his art, he calls for a mental journey into the past, but at the same time he makes the viewer aware: memories are not truths. In a falsified and glossed way, they are ultimately only subjective desires and hopes.
The magazines from the 1950s are odes of consumption, the exuberance and carelessness of the post-war years. When Holger Zimmermann composes pictures from the catalogs and magazines to create new collages, the whole world seems suddenly threatened. Inspired by the pop art and his representatives such as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, Zimmermann dedicates himself to decades in his paintings around economic miracles and rock ‘n’ roll. Zimmermann shows cheerful motifs such as holiday scenes, frolicsome moments and social gathering in a blurred, rich in contrast and sometimes somber way. The artist is not only attached to the themes and motifs of the pop art, but also in his complexity and range. Zimmermann is oriented towards the great artists of the consumer generation such as Warhol and Polke. Zimmermann uses digital processes to deal with the alienation in an even more radical way.
Text: Julia Schattauer
Opening
4th November 2016 7 pm – 10 pm
Duration of the exhibition
5th November – 16th December 2016
Ending
16th December 6 pm – 9 pm
Picture: Money makes blind, 2016, Collage, 19,7 x 15,4 cm
