Joachim Hiller

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Joachim Hiller (born October 13, 1933 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) is a German visual artist. His work includes paintings and reliefs in various techniques, some of which he developed himself, as well as works on paper .

Life

From 1949 to 1953 Joachim Hiller studied at the master school for handicrafts in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He then worked as a graphic artist and commercial artist in Berlin (1954–1958) and Frankfurt am Main (1959–1962), later as an art director in Hamburg and again in Frankfurt a. M. (1963-1968). In 1966 Hiller met the Cologne photographer Chargesheimer while working together on advertising campaigns for Deutsche Lufthansa . The non-conformist way of life of the “Bohémien from Cologne” encouraged Hiller to give up his job and become a freelance artist.

In 1968 Hiller left the advertising industry and went to the Dalmatian coast (Yugoslavia), in particular to the island of Sveti Klement . The pen drawings he made there in 1969 based on the structures of weathered stones and rocks mark the breakthrough to his independent art. For 35 years Hiller's work was created outside the art business, without gallery representation and without exhibitions. It wasn't until 2005 that he decided to show his works publicly. His independent approach of process-oriented painting, in which the focus is not on the subjectivity of the artist but on the objective properties of the material and the application of paint, could therefore only be received with a delay. Hiller lives with his wife Ingetraud, with whom he has been together since 1969, in Hummerzheim , ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

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The focus of Hiller's work is the preoccupation with structures analogous to the formative forces of nature. At the beginning of his artistic activity, the closeness to the painting of Tachism or Informel can still be recognized. In the beginning, Serge Poliakoff's free color form compositions in particular served as role models. Hiller broke away from traditional oil painting around 1970 . Since then he has preferred acrylic paint . Hiller experimented again and again with a wide variety of materials such as glass, sand, hard foam, cement, etc. Through the use of materials, the painting expanded again and again into a relief. The methods for applying the paint have also been expanded experimentally: for example, Hiller's work includes airbrush techniques, various touch-off processes , washing out and sanding off layers of paint, breaking and fixing glass plates, freezing acrylic paint, distributing the paint with compressed air, etc. .

With the artists of the artist group ZERO who are only a few years older , Hiller connects the disregard of the subjective expression of the artist, the interest in objectively available structures and the connection between art and nature. In contrast to the ZERO artists, however, Hiller stuck to painting, but expanded its possibilities through experimental processes.

Until well into the 1980s, Hiller was particularly interested in color as a material. Earthy colors and structures that are reminiscent of erosion processes or satellite images of geological formations were predominant until then. At the end of the 1970s, there was a brief phase of experimentation with kinetic objects .

Since around 1997, color has increasingly become the dominant theme of his art. Based on the properties of the water-soluble acrylic paint, Hiller developed various new painting techniques whose brightly colored results are reminiscent of the appearance of water or clouds. From 2008 onwards he created paintings in which color is thematized as a luminous, energetic event by superimposing numerous colored surfaces. Since 2010 Hiller has been working on paintings using a process in which the paint is dripped onto the canvases in such a way that the pictures are gradually built up from countless colored pixels.

The majority of Joachim Hiller's works have a square format because this form is neutral towards tendencies towards direction. In principle, his works do not have a title so that the viewer is free to make their own associations.

Quotes

“Freedom was the most important thing for me. (...) The closer you study the natural forms, the greater the freedom. "

“If you take water, for example: water is liquid, water is airy as a cloud and water is solid as ice. And if you have solid bodies and liquid bodies and volatile, gaseous bodies, then you actually have the whole world together. And if you can do that, if you can represent these three elements correctly, then you should be able to represent the whole world, or rather: make a new world out of it. "

"I don't paint nature, I paint like nature"

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2005 Bonifaciusturm Mainz
  • 2006 Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden
  • 2007 Walter Bischoff Gallery, Berlin
  • 2007 ALP Galleries, New York City
  • 2008 radicalgallery, Zug
  • 2008 “Joachim Hiller. Retrospective for the 75th birthday ”, Villa Haiss. Museum for contemporary art, Zell am Harmersbach
  • 2008 Mount San Antonio Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2008 Kunsthaus Oberkassel, Düsseldorf
  • 2009 Galleria Immaginaria, Florence
  • 2009 Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden
  • 2009 Orangery of the Würzburg Residence
  • 2009 Dengler + Dengler Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 2010 "Sky in the Art", State Museums, St. Petersburg (group exhibition)
  • 2010 artobes gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2011/2012 "Terra incognita", Altana Gallery of the Technical University of Dresden
  • 2013 "Joachim Hiller. Interference", HLP Gallery, Wesseling

Literature (selection)

  • Roland Held: Joachim Hiller. Looking over the shoulder of creation , Wiesbaden 2006
  • Galerie Nero (Ed.): Joachim Hiller. Works on paper. With texts by Marta Cencillo-Ramírez and Peter Lodermeyer , arthellweg verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-938966-11-2
  • Peter Lodermeyer: Hiller - work biography. With a foreword by Klaus Honnef , arthellweg verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-938966-13-6
  • Klaus Honnef: The phenomenological view. Joachim Hiller and Painting , Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-938966-19-8
  • Sabine Zimmermann-Törne (Ed.): Terra incognita. World views - world experiences . Exhibition catalog of the Technical University of Dresden, October 29, 2011 - February 3, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86780-259-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Lodermeyer: Hiller - Workbiographie , Cologne 2009, p 30-33.
  2. ↑ Bodo von Dewitz (ed.), Chargesheimer. Bohémien from Cologne 1924–1971 , Cologne 2007.
  3. ↑ Some of the drawings from Sveti Klement are shown in: Roland Held: Joachim Hiller. Looking over the shoulder of creation , Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 14-17.
  4. ↑ Figures in: Peter Lodermeyer: Hiller - Werkbiografie , Cologne 2009, pp. 76–79.
  5. ↑ Ibid., P. 177.
  6. ↑ Ibid., P. 144.
  7. ^ Maximilian Keller: Berlin Art Market: Painting like Ms. Natura herself: Joachim Hiller . July 5, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Hiller, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lichterfelde