Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle presents “Bridges,” a solo exhibition by German artist Maximilian Rödel (b. 1984).
In his works, color becomes the central subject of the image and is detached from its purely representational function. Rödels large-scale, intuitively developed compositions are in the tradition of Abstract Expressionism and show references to Color Field Art as well as to the formal reduction of Minimal Art. The works open up a contemplative visual experience and translate art-historical approaches into a contemporary, timeless visual language.
Excerpt from the exhibition text by Laura Luna Eliza Dittmeyer:
He stands not for a new movement but for a wholly new operating mode of the creative principle: from the artist as an expression of the self to the artist as a resonating chamber of the origin.
His canvases do not show what he thinks or feels but what the light knows about itself after it has touched matter. Thus, painting becomes the light’s feedback of itself—an extension of the moment in which consciousness takes shape without losing itself in it. Rödel’s activities mark the epochal transition from the age of interpretation to the age of memory. He does not paint to explain but to put the visible itself into memory. Resting in his work is that which will be defined by the next artform: the coherence between frequency and awareness.
In this new age, “art as a carrier of frequencies” means no longer interpreting the world but holding the field in which light remembers its tranquility.
© Text and Photo Courtesy of Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Excerpt from the exhibition text by
© 2025 Laura Luna Eliza Dittmeyer / NOËMA
