Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme at VAN HORN: Material Becomes Art
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A Dialogue of Material, Space, and Memory
With Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, VAN HORN opens an exhibition in Düsseldorf that brings two different artistic approaches into a surprisingly clear connection. Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme meet here for the first time in a joint exhibition. Both transform the existing, freeing materials from their original context and thus open up the view of structure, tension, and spatial effect.
When the Familiar Begins to Speak Anew
The exhibition title refers to an English saying that connects luck, memory, and new beginnings. This triad defines the art experience: The old does not disappear but remains visible as a trace. Culbert works with shirts, pockets, tents, and fabrics, Hoehme with color, strings, plastic hoses, and drawings. Aesthetic experience emerges from everyday objects, function transforms into form, and material into meaning.
Pip Culbert: Heavy Fabrics, Light Lines
Pip Culbert reduces the object to its visible seams, edges, and frameworks. Her works allow the inside to come outward and transform clothing and textile structures into open drawings in space. In this examination of her work, an art emerges that oscillates between sculpture, drawing, and architecture. Culbert is not interested in the finished object but in the process of exposing, condensing, and organizing.
Gerhard Hoehme: Painting as an Open Field
Gerhard Hoehme is one of the defining voices of German Informel. His works break the idea of the picture as a closed surface. Color, lines, strings, and hose forms expand painting into space, turning the image into an energetic field. Especially his drawings show how precisely Hoehme works with movement, tension, and openness. The work is not complete but constantly in relation to the viewer and the surroundings.
Shared Language of Transformation
The juxtaposition makes visible how close both positions are in their artistic logic. Both reduce rather than add. Both transform material into a form of perception. Both think in lines that do not limit but connect. It is precisely in this reduction that a remarkable intensity arises, shaping the exhibition atmosphere and sharpening the perception of material, emptiness, and space.
A Place for Concentrated Art Observation
VAN HORN in Düsseldorf provides the suitable framework for this exhibition: a place where contemporary and historical positions are brought together with a clear curatorial view. The exhibition is aimed at art enthusiasts who want to rediscover material aesthetics, conceptual art, Informel, and the interfaces of object, sculpture, and drawing. The exhibition also opens up numerous interpretations pedagogically regarding transformation, memory, and the visibility of processes.
Conclusion
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed is not just a juxtaposition of two artists, but a precisely conceived exhibition about the transformation of materials and meanings. Anyone passionate about art history, spatial art, and poetic reduction should definitely experience this exhibition live in Düsseldorf.
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