DISSOLVING BOUNDARIES
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, September 12th 6 to 9 PM.
SHOW ON VIEW
September 12th. – November 7th., 2026
My work is, all at once, about mutually dependent contradictions and the crossing of boundaries—or, rather, about their eventual dissolution.
There are many examples of this throughout my practice, but I would like to emphasize one in particular: the dissolution of the boundary between the tangible and the ethereal. This is fundamental to my work because it reflects the duality of human perception. Since my practice is deeply concerned with perception itself, this may be one of its most essential aspects.
I chose this title because the idea gains even greater relevance with the emergence of my new body of work, the so-called Multishapes.
Former Director of the Landesmuseum Bonn, Dr. Gabriele Uelsberg, once wrote:
“In his art, Dirk Salz approaches colour painting much like a traditional painter, even though he works with the mindset of a sculptor, completing his paintings as designed volumes. Layer by layer, he develops his pictorial objects from the materiality of various materials including pigments, resins, aluminium and wood. His creations engage in a dialogue with viewers, intensifying their inner infinity, colour and light.”
It was precisely from this understanding that I began to reconsider the question of form.
In both the Deep Dives and Fadings series, I had previously reduced the external form of the work to the “primal” shapes of the square or rectangle, circle, and triangle. Perhaps it was therefore only a matter of time before my persistent desire for a sensually tangible expression of the work led me to recognize form as an element alongside light and color.
In this sense, I began reflecting shape.
As always, my process is driven by epistemological and aesthetic questions. Once again, I entered into a deliberately constructed dialogue between non-color and color. Through the given form and the frequently present reflections, the works resist true monochromaticity and instead appear in constantly shifting gradations.
This ambiguity of visual and sensory perception—the persistent refusal of the work to fully reveal itself—is central to my practice.
As Immanuel Kant stated:
“Even if we could bring this intuition of ours to the highest degree of distinctness we would not thereby come any closer to the constitution of objects in themselves. For in any case we would still completely cognize only our own way of intuiting, i.e., our sensibility, and this always only under the conditions originally depending on the subject, space and time; what the objects may be in themselves would still never be known through the most enlightened cognition of their appearance, which is alone given to us.”
In this context, Multishapes extends my investigation of perception, materiality, light, color, and form. The works do not present themselves as fixed visual objects; rather, they continuously change according to light, position, reflection, and the viewer’s own act of perception.
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