From: Greylight Projects, Heerlen (NL)
To: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren (DE)
Claude Horstmann’s (born 1960 in Minden (DE) lives and works in Stuttgart and Marseille) work explores the territories and boundaries of contemporary drawing and sculpture. Different work tracks are conducted in parallel: mural work, drawing, textual and photographic artist’ edition, lecture-performance and sculpture. All her works deal with forms and non-forms, surfaces and traces shaping the places and grounds that surround us. Claude Horstmann starts from the principle that every space can be read and looked at as a huge surface of inscriptions marked and ‘crossed’. Signs and languages, traces and gestures, architecture and its deconstruction come into play, just like stone, conglomerate and marble.
Claude Horstmann translates the plastic potential of spaces by questioning the materials and their qualities. It is a question of condensing multiple forms, creating counter-currents, elaborating a geology of the present from the signs and sites put in question, exploring objects and conglomerates found as seismographic surveys.