For our exhibition, the artist Florian Pumhösl compiled around forty works, which are shown on the first floor of the former Einsatzleitung. It starts with the reverse glass painting Strohgeige (straw violin) (2011), part of our collection for some years now. In the following seven rooms, Pumhösl for the first time exhibits only drawings and monotypes created between two works: Moments from the creative process, which were generally not executed directly as a picture. The starting point for Pumhösl’s artwork is often an existing template: a shape, a pictorial composition, or a spatial representation, for instance, a mechanical device, a letter, or a historical map. He focuses on graphic representation, on the repetition and reduction of each visual motif – until the real origin and the abstraction come into balance.

Axel Haubrok

List of works

Florian Pumhösl
Georgische Lettern, Vorstudien (4 Zeichnungen), 2014
courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York

Florian Pumhösl
Studien zu Byzantinische Figuren (5 Zeichnungen), 2014
courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York

Florian Pumhösl
Studien zu After a map of Eretz Israel (7 Zeichnungen), 2013–2014
courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York

Florian Pumhösl
Hebrew maps (3 Zeichnungen), 2013
courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York

Florian Pumhösl
Monotypien zu Räumliche Sequenz (4 Zeichnungen), 2012–2013

Florian Pumhösl
Strohgeige, 2011

Florian Pumhösl
Studien zu Zwei Glasbilder (2 Zeichnungen), 2010
courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York