Tim Berresheim – Smashin' Time II

Curated by Sue Irion and Dominique Mollet

Tim Berresheim presents Smashin' Time II at Kunst Raum Riehen, a room-within-a-room situation that transforms the exhibition space into a stage in which the boundaries between digital painting, photography and 3D animation merge.

The Aachen-based artist Tim Berresheim, born in 1975, studied at the Braunschweig University of Art and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He has been producing panel paintings with the help of computers since 2002. The pictures, which are realized as photographs, screen prints or computer prints, depict scenes that take place in three-dimensional, illusionistic space. In the course of working with Computer Generated Images (CGI and DGI), plausible, i.e. stage-like visual worlds subject to physical laws are created - this applies to both the figurative and the abstract works. Since the second half of the 2000s, the aspect of multidimensionality has also been relevant for Berresheim. By means of optical distortions within the complex representations - in terms of richness of detail, spatial arrangement and illumination - the legibility of a picture is subjected to permanent changes, thus putting the idea of an ultimate central perspective view up for discussion.

Since his solo exhibition at the Düsseldorfer Kunstverein in 2014, self-designed wallpapers have been an integral part of his exhibition display. The title at the time, "Eye and World", can certainly be understood as a programmatic motto that is still valid today. The relatively new technology of laser scanning, which Tim Berresheim has been using since last year, enables him to merge familiar, memory-laden motifs with previously unseen visual worlds. The idea of augmented reality is far more important to him than virtual reality, and feedback and mediation - by means of an augmented reality app, for example - are more important than immersion.