Rupprecht Geiger, Gelb || Orange

In the organizer's words:

Rupprecht Geiger (1908-2009) was one of the most influential representatives of non-representational painting in the post-war period and was a co-founder of the ZEN 49 artists' group. From the 1950s onwards, he developed a geometric pictorial language based consistently on the colors blue, yellow, red and magenta.

Walter Storms worked closely with Rupprecht Geiger for 27 years from 1982 onwards, organizing several international exhibitions, producing graphic editions and realizing private and public commissions in an architectural context with and for the artist. A highlight was the artistic design of the protocol room in the Reichstag building of the new German Bundestag in Berlin in 1999. In 2002, Walter Storms represented the artist in the installation of the Geiger Room at the São Paulo Biennial.

The current exhibition includes a surprising juxtaposition of two paintings from 1949 and 2007, which illustrate the development of his work from landscape to abstraction.