Klaus-Martin Treder _ Ohne näheres Ende

Our spring exhibition presents the solo show "ohne näheres Ende" with the latest work productions by KLAUS- MARTIN TREDER (born 1960 in Biberach a.R.; lives and works in Berlin).

In his abstract work, the artist combines painting and objects and adds humour and irony in an original way.

"For me, the things first become abstract in the transfer to the picture, part of the painterly code and contribute to shaping the abstract picture. And on the other hand, I also treat the colour as an object" (KMT).

Klaus-Martin Treder pours a viscous colour paste over the canvas in a strong basic tone and hermetically envelops it, creating a pictorial body that makes it possible to physically experience colour as a material. Objects figure on the saturated colour, which are applied and draped in a second independent process and complete the transformation of the picture from two- to three- dimensionality. The pictorial action takes place in the constant addition and removal of figurative components. Added to this is the partially painterly treatment of the objects, such as the boxes that have been filled with colour or the sponges that have been soaked in paint.

Even if any style is avoided that is generally regarded as "the" expression of the author's subjectivity, the notion of a certain authorship is mobilised through the objects of everyday life. Indeed, one involuntarily wonders to what extent the objects can perhaps be read autobiographically - in the sense of a self-portrait? And if not in relation to the artist, then perhaps to another person? The result is an open, unconfirmed mutual attribution of meaning between product and persona, which extends into economic reflections on the things we consume, because what we consume says something about us and society.

The complex question of what form painting can take today in the face of artistic and economic influences is negotiated in Klaus-Martin Treder's exhibited works towards an option that, not without eccentricity, is conceived from the material in a social resonance space.

Note:
The work "Orientierungsverlust und Ästhetik '004" by Klaus-Martin Treder is currently on display in the collection presentation of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

Klaus-Martin Treder studied fine arts in the class of Rudolf Schoofs at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and received various scholarships. The artist's works are represented in private and institutional collections such as the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Würth Collection, the Paul Ege Art Collection Freiburg, the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin etc..