Bodo Sperling

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Bodo Sperling
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Bodo Sperling
Born (1952-05-06) 6 May 1952 (age 72)
NationalityGerman
Education University of Hannover, University of Tübingen
Known for Painting,
Notable work Objectivism
Movement Heraclitus, Plato, Nagarjuna, Hegel, Conceptual Art,

Bodo Sperling (born 6 May 1952) is a German artist, painter, and inventor.

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Life

Sperling grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Amsterdam and Berlin. He started his artistic career in Amsterdam. There he sold his pictures he had painted during the day on the street every night at Club Paradiso (Amsterdam). One focus of his work is the development of scientific models by looking at the aesthetics, and the implementation of scientific models in objects. In 1985, he calls his art direction "Objectivism". [1] Sperling sees the form of matter as a crystal as a means of capturing time and space information for a later viewer. The scientist Rupert Sheldrake, as the founder of the morphogenetic field theory, developed the hypothesis that all matter is in morphic resonance, according to which every particle of matter has an effect on all other particles of matter, just by its mere existence, its location, or its energetic state. Sperling is based on the idea that the environmental influences during the arrangement of atoms into a crystal lattice have a shaping effect on the structure of the crystals and that the crystals can therefore later have an effect on the observer via these causalities.

Another focus of his work is the documentation of physical processes through their aesthetic. The German philosopher Thomas Metzinger, manager of the workspace Neurophilosophy at Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Science Arts writes in the videor-art-foundation's catalog. Transparency of Consciousness "Its crystal panels were probably the reason why so much attention, because they work in a particular object, the quasi-spiritual principles of order in nature itself to turn aesthetic intuition accessible." [2] [3] (See Figure Crystal Object Objectivism)

Since 1985, he has worked with computers as a design tool. Two of his paintings are exhibited at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. [4]

1990/1991 Spokesman of the Federal Association of Artists BBK Frankfurt. [5] 1990 Sperling served as authorized negotiators, negotiations for unification of the Federal Association of Artists with the GDR - Artists Association. He was one of the four founders of the East Side Gallery, Berlin Wall, Berlin. [6] [7] [8] in March 1990. [9]

In May 2011 he filed with other artists of the "founding Initiative East Side" complaint before the District Court of Berlin, due to destruction of art and infringement of copyright. The redevelopment of the East Side Gallery in 2009, destroyed most of a listed building images, and their conceptual artistic Character of 1990. [10]

Sperling 1992 installed on the 1st Total German artist Congress in Potsdam, a five-meter high mobile, which, illuminated by slides, the impression of a constantly changing 3-D film produced. From 1980 the first pictures emerged from crystals and crystal panels. Sperling describes his artistic work as Objectivism. In 1991 he created at the national exhibition in Kassel, a video installation that confronted the viewer with the objective documentation of Spacetime. It was installed on a several tons of stone altar on which stood a steel basin. In this steel basin formed over time crystals from a boiling solution. The entire process has been documented over several weeks by an automatic camera. [11] The basis of his work, he sees in line with research by Rupert Sheldrake and his theory of Morphic field.

2016 Sperling received the 4th International André Evard Audience Award of the Messmer Foundation. His Award-winning work titled: obj 1586 is the first from the work series, folded realities. In this series, the focus is on the referentiality between the entities. So the colors depending on the angle of the surfaces with respect to the scalar light source. Sperling makes reference to a philosophical approach of the philosopher Nagarjuna. [12] [13] [14]

Exhibitions

Crystal Object, Objectivism, 8deg36'44" 49deg43'33" 19:00h 1.Kristallobject, Objectivism, 8deg36'44" 49deg43'33", Bodo Sperling.png
Crystal Object, Objectivism, 8°36'44" 49°43'33" 19:00h
Bodo Sperlings painting on the Berliner Mauer Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F086695-0028, Berlin, bemalte Reste der Berliner Mauer-cut.jpg
Bodo Sperlings painting on the Berliner Mauer

Collections, commissions, public art


Awards

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