Jens Trimpin

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Jens Trimpin (* 1946 in Mannheim ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Trimpin is a member of the Darmstadt Secession (since 2005) and of the German Association of Artists . Trimpin lives and works secluded in Mannheim.

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After a short figurative phase (for example “Kleiner Kopf”, Kalkstein, 1972), Trimpin turned to abstraction in the course of the 1970s. While his early works were still roughly trimmed, his works later show a high degree of smoothing of the surface, although only worked with hammer and chisel (sometimes also with files). Trimpin works mainly in marble and granite, without preliminary drawings or maquettes ( taille directe ). Form-finding during manufacture is part of the process at Trimpin. He does not speak of the final state of a sculpture, rather of a “stop”.

"I have no relationship with works that do not answer the basics of sculpture, I am interested in the (material-related) form as the language of art."

- Jens Trimpin

One of the features of Trimpin's sculptures is the supposedly lack of secure standing space. They seem to break away from it, seem to float, seem to tip over.

“On the other hand, the heaviness of the stone is emphasized by an optical paradox. The weight comes into its own by partially lifting the sculpture from the ground. This sometimes driven tilting of the sculpture from its vertical axis to the limit of what appears to be possible, it is more than the torsion that shows the stone as a resisting matter. "

- Magdalena Nieslony

Trimpin's sculptures cannot be seen at first glance; the viewer will want to walk around the work to get closer to it. This is provoked by the slightly tilted or curved surfaces of the forms, the block appears to be exposed to torsion, compare, for example, Untitled (1997). While the shape is initially reminiscent of familiar things, such as a block - in stereometry often similar to a cube, a horizontal parallelepiped or a cuboid stele - his stone sculptures oppose precisely this "recognition" on closer inspection. The result is “concentrated forms that are oriented towards clarity, openness, but also final indeterminacy.” The reduced and condensed form in its apparent simplicity on the one hand and the confused expectation on the other throw the viewer back on himself; The contemplative effect of Trimpin's sculptures lies in questioning his own perception.

Since the mid-1990s, Trimpin has also been developing models that are intended as suggestions for the design of public spaces , but which can also be viewed as independent sculptural designs that primarily require an intellectual debate. Mostly made of plexiglass, they are intended for use in concrete. In order to emphasize the “conceptual character of these works” ( Manfred Fath ), they are sprayed uniformly white and therefore - in contrast to Trimpin's stone work - lack any handwriting.

“Relationships to Richard Serra's works are most clearly recognizable, if one compares, for example, the Berlin Block for Charlie Chaplin from 1977 with the also angled marble block (43 x 18 x 22 cm) from 2000, here again with curved surfaces; or vice versa, if you compare Serra's curved steel disks Clara Clara from 1983 in the Tuileries in Paris with plan trimpins and inclined concrete walls with the title Passage from 1999, it becomes clear which common theme of awareness through observation moves both artists. "

- Wilfried Wang

Trimpin designed principal pieces for the Catholic Church of St. Valentin , Limbach, and the crypt of the Jesuit Church in Mannheim . He also made graphite drawings .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

(A catalog was published for exhibitions marked with a "K".)

  • 1978: Stone sculptures + drawings , Kunstverein Heidelberg K
  • 1989: Stone sculptures , Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern (with Attila Kovács) (also 1994)
  • 1991: Stone sculptures , Brückenturm – Galerie der Stadt, Mainz (with Karin Radoy) K
  • 1994: Stone sculptures , Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen am Rhein K
  • 1996: Mannheimer Kunstverein K
  • 2001: concrete - models for concrete and stone sculptures , Kunsthalle Mannheim K
  • 2003: Stone sculptures , Galerie Kautsch, Michelstadt (also 2010, 2018)
  • 2004: Galerie Wolfgang Wolff, Egestorf K
  • 2008: Galerie Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim (also 2011, 2017)
  • 2010: Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst (Netherlands) (also 2016)
  • 2010: Stone sculptures , St. Johann Gallery, Saarbrücken
  • 2011: Museum Bassermannhaus , Mannheim
  • 2013: Galerie Ohse, Bremen (also 2016)
  • 2013: Galerie Dittmar, Berlin (with Christiane Conrad)
  • 2014: Galerie Wenger, Zurich (Switzerland) (also 2019)
  • 2015: Stone sculptures , Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe (with Sabine Funke, painting) K
  • 2017/18: Sculptures from four decades , Museum im Deutschhof, Städtische Museen Heilbronn K,

Works in public space

  • Marble sculpture (1989). Location: Große Fischergasse 3, Frankfurt am Main
  • Pillar (1991), concrete, 7 m high, and fountain sculpture (1987), Black Forest granite, location: Mannheim-Waldhof station, Mannheim, rail road (B44) or passarelle, commissioned by the Deutsche Bundesbahn

Works in collections (selection)

  • Two pillars (1998), basalt lava, each 480 cm high, as well as two floor reliefs in the entrance, Karlsruhe Federal Prosecutor's Office (invited art competition)
  • Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
  • Museum of New Art, Freiburg / Brsg.
  • Museum of non-representational art, Otterndorf
  • St. Valentin Church, Limbach
  • Diocesan Museum, Osnabrück
  • Municipal Gallery, Karlsruhe
  • Municipal museums / Deutschhof, Heilbronn
  • City of Mainz
  • City of Heidelberg

literature

  • Jens Trimpin - Sculptures from Four Decades, Ed. Städtische Museen Heilbronn, exhibition catalog Museum im Deutschhof, 2017
  • Jens Trimpin - Sculptures / Sculptures 1996–2006, Ed. Galerie Nicole Schlégl, Zurich, modo Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2007
  • Jens Trimpin: concrete / models for concrete. Editing: Jochen Kronjäger and Jens Trimpin, eds. Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2001. Exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kunstverein Friedberg and Galerie Rathert, Minden

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jens Trimpin - Sculptures / Sculptures 1994–2006. Edited by Galerie Nicole Schlégl, Zurich, modo Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-937014-76-0
  2. ↑ In: Jens Trimpin - Stone Sculptures. Galerie Wolfgang Wolff, Egestorf, 2004, p. 3
  3. ↑ a b Jens Trimpin. Sculptures from four decades , exhibition in the Städtische Museen Heilbronn from October 20, 2017 to January 28, 2018
  4. ↑ Flyer for the exhibition Jens Trimpin - Sculptures from Four Decades , Städtische Museen Heilbronn, October 20, 2017 to January 28, 2018
  5. ↑ a b Alfred Huber: Form is the language of art , Mannheimer Morgen, November 8, 2017
  6. ↑ a b Foreword by Manfred Fath, in: Jens Trimpin: concrete / models for concrete. Editing: Jochen Kronjäger and Jens Trimpin, eds. Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2001, p. 5
  7. ↑ Wilfried Wang: Kontraposto in Beton , in: Jens Trimpin: concrete / models for concrete. Editors: Jochen Kronjäger and Jens Trimpin, eds. Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2001, p. 17
  8. ↑ There is splashing in the forest courtyard. Mannheimer Morgen, July 22, 1987, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Trimpin, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim