Franz Ackermann

Multiple Locations

For his first exhibition at Templon New York, German artist Franz Ackermann continues to explore his concept of an evolving exhibition with Multiple Locations.

Franz Ackermann – Multiple Locations, TEMPLON New York, 2023

“But there is always something to risk in the art world, where I don’t know what will happen tomorrow; this is the excitement.”

Franz Ackermann, 2023

Fruit of an in-depth reflection over several years on the notion of physical and mental displacement, this selection comprises previously unseen oils on canvas and mixed media works. With each exhibition leading him to new destinations, ­the sense of displacement is what feeds the nomadic artist’s practice. On the canvas, he mixes random memories together with explosive colours and strong emotions inspired by his many travels.

His mental maps with their exuberant palette of hues combine fragments of photographs and outlines of skyscrapers in a subtle nod to the legendary seething energy of the megalopolis that never sleeps, trying to find a way through the countless blocks of paint that are striking in their imperfection. What Ackermann is proposing here is a totally transformable experimental game. These windows on the world seize on the ordinary perception of modernity all the better to transfigure it and bring to life a contemporary conundrum rooted in a life of explorations.

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Supply 2, 2023

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The artist

Born in 1963 in Germany, Franz Ackermann lives and works between Berlin and Miami. Travel as an experience, displacement and observation are the notions at the heart of his paintings and installations. Ackerman’s exuberant works with their saturated colours are inhabited with overlapping forms that merge with fragments of images taken directly from urban reality. Globalisation and the issue of tourism also play an important part in his artistic explorations.

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