Until October, small and large-format material collages by Stralsund artist Dieter Holz (1939 - 2008) will be shown for the first time outside his home town.
The name of the exhibition is "Driftwood" and, in addition to the ambiguous play on words, refers to the fact that the artist collected the material for his creations on his wanderings along the local coast. An initial desire to collect developed into an indomitable passion. Weathered wood in many different forms, bizarre or rounded stones or pieces of glass, fossils, cork, cordage, fragments of leather, rubber, plastic or metal, which bear clear traces of the effects of sun, wind or water, form the material for his unique pictorial creations. For Dieter Holz, the special appeal of the material collage lay in the interplay between intention and chance. By placing the found objects in a new relationship to each other in the picture, he achieved a poeticization. Characteristics and beauties become visible that were previously not shown to advantage. He once expressed his artistic intention as follows: "Because many people have lost the ability to see the wonderful, the mysterious and the beautiful in everyday life, I try out the suggestive power of unusual, if possible unexpected means of design and their combination...My material pictures should delight the viewer, make him think and make him feel his kinship with everything that has grown and become. May they not see things as uninteresting objects that stand outside of us. I think they are an indispensable part of world harmony and symbolize connections." Works from three decades will be shown until October 2024 from Wednesday to Saturday from 11 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 4 pm in the Kunstsalon, Karlstr.3, 17459 Koserow.
