Norbert Pümpel

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Norbert Pümpel, May 2013

Norbert Pümpel (* 1956 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian visual artist.

Life

Growing up in Landeck , Pümpel studied natural sciences in Innsbruck, which soon shaped his artistic self-image. Study trips took him to Rome, Florence, Boston, Washington and New York. As an artist and self-taught , he began in the field of concept art in the late 1970s . First theoretical writings and drawings on mathematical series and series. Later projects are influenced by contemporary physics and epistemology; Time and again, work on peace policy emerged. Pümpel has been working as a freelance artist since 1982. In 2010 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and in 2016 the Cross of Merit of the State of Tyrol . Since 1978 numerous exhibitions in Europe, America and Japan.

Teaching

introduction

“Reality has evaporated”: Karl Popper's theorem about the impossibility of objective knowledge in the face of a reality that evades observation does not seem to be an unsuitable working basis for an artist who has made the representation of the impossibility of objective representation of reality his task. The question of the image, that is, of the relationship between reality and the modalities of its reflection, has always challenged artists - but no one has asked it so consistently and used it for artistic answers as Norbert Pümpel. Since the 1970s he has developed a work that, in the border area of ​​natural science, philosophy and also theology, revolves around the old question of the possibilities and limits of human knowledge and - related to this - the possibilities of the image and its performance in relation to reality in ever new spirals of thought .

Exhibitions (selection)

Norbert Pümpel, Exhibition Ferdinandeum Innsbruck Museum, 2006
  • 1979 Participation in the exhibition "Europa 79" put together by Hans-Jürgen Müller, Ursula Schurr and Max Hetzler together with Tony Cragg, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente and others. a.
  • 1984 at “Orwell and the Present” in the Museum of the 20th Century in Vienna, together with Jochen Gerz, Jörg Immendorff , Robert Morris, Roy Lichtenstein a . a. (Catalog)
  • 1985 first museum solo exhibition in the State and Municipal Art Collections, Bellevue Palace, Kassel;
  • 1993 Participation in the exhibition The Vertical Danger. The aerial warfare in art in the documenta Halle Kassel, together with Günther Uecker , Gerhard Richter , Arnulf Rainer u. a.
  • 1997 against - religion.gedächtnis.körper in Graz with Anish Kapoor , Roman Opalka , Joseph Beuys a . a. (Catalog)
  • 1992, 1999 and 2002 personal exhibitions at Concept Space, Shibukawa, Japan
  • 2003 Participation in the International Biennale in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates
  • 2005 Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, "Probable statement about a Guernica of the late 20th century"
  • 2006 Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Scientific Disaster - The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Works
  • 2007 Turin, Biblioteca Nationale Zona Ovest / West Austria in dialogue , with Lois and Franziska Weinberger, Peter Kogler , Elmar Trenkwalder, Gottfried Bechtold u. a. Curator: Christoph Bertsch (catalog)
  • 2011 Marburg, Kunstverein, Hamlet Syndrome: Skulls , curator Harald Kimpel
  • 2012 Neuhaus / Suha (A) Museum Liaunig Reality and Abstraction 2. Concrete and reductive tendencies from 1980
  • 2013 Neuhaus / Suha (A) Museum Liaunig , From surface to room with Tony Cragg , Robert Motherwell , Robert Schad , Dora Maurer u. a.
  • 2014 Hohenems (A), Otten Kunstraum, eight without an object with Hubert Lampert , Tone Fink , Franz Türtscher a. a.
  • 2014 Marburg (D), Marburger Kunstverein , art @ science. Three positions in the aesthetics of science . with Ulysses Belz , Ingrid Hermentin , Norbert Pümpel, Marburger Kunstverein, catalog ed. by Harald Kimpel ,
  • 2016 Neuhaus / Suha (A) Museum Liaunig Eye-Glances, new acquisitions
  • 2016 Bregenz, Palais Thurn und Taxis , you can also construct very burlesque cases ...
  • 2016 Vienna, Bildraum 01, Fleeting Memorials
  • 2017 Shibukawa (JP), Concept Space and Concept Space R2 Out of Silence together with Atsuo Hukuda. The Fleeting Memorials will be shown in Japan for the first time
  • 2018/2019 Innsbruck, Kunstraum, So we interpret them and see how we interpret them!
  • 2019/2020 Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Beauty before Wisdom - The knowledge of art, the art of science

Works

Norbert Pümpel, Scientific Disaster III, 1990
  • Hammerschlag Nr. 2 , 1978 3-part series; approx. 90 × 190 cm, exhibited: Galerie Krinzinger Innsbruck 1979, and Bregenz Palais Thurn und Taxis, 1979; illustrated in: Peter Weiermair, medium drawing, Allerheiligenpresse Innsbruck 1979, and JM Seebacher, perceiving, Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, 1979 (owned by the Albertina in Vienna)
  • Stars and Stripes Project, 1981 6 groups of images of four parts each, mixed media and collage on primed paper, 100 × 276 cm to 100 × 1075 cm, exhibited and published by "Künstler aus Tirol", Pécsi Galéria, Pécs (Hungary), 1986; (in public art collection in the Alpbach Congress Center : Schrödinger Saal)
  • Probable statement about a Guernica of the late 20th century , 1982 24-part installation, 291 × 929.6 cm; Exhibited at "Future Spaces - Imagery and World Images of Science Fiction", curator Harald Kimpel, Orangery, Kassel, April 29 to 17, 1984, and "Future Spaces - Imagery and World Images of Science Fiction" Erlangen, Städtische Galerie in summer 1984 and at the Exhibition “The Vertical Danger. Luftkrieg in der Kunst "[on the 50th anniversary of the destruction of Kassel], documenta -Halle Kassel, September 24 to October 31, 1993 as well as in the individual presentation Probable statement about a Guernica from the late 20th century Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, 28. January to February 20, 2005 published in: The vertical danger, aerial warfare in art, Marburg 1993 and in Zona Ovest, Skarabäus Studienverlag, Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich 2007 and in Kunst in Tirol, P: Naredi-Rainer L. Madersbacher, Innsbruck 2007
  • The Great Stadium , 1983 different materials on primed paper, 3 parts: 126 × 210 cm. Issued: 1984 at "Orwell and the Present" in the Museum of the 20th Century in Vienna (catalog)
  • Heinrich Heine cycle , 1986 14-part cycle of drawings, each part 126 × 90 cm, published: N. Pümpel, works from 1977–87, Landeck, 1987 (previously owned by BankAustria: Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank Wien)
  • White Fire Curtain , 1990 Egg tempera and ashes on canvas, 190 × 250 cm discussed and illustrated in: Harald Kimpel, Die Schwerkraft der Bilder, N. Pümpels creative contribution to the theory of omitted practice, in: N. Pümpel, 238,0289, work on the universal constants of nature and the atomic bomb, Landeck, issued, discussed and illustrated in 1990: Harald Kimpel; The aerial warfare in art, Kassel, documenta Halle, 1993
  • Scientific Disaster III , 1990 Egg tempera, cadmium red on ash on canvas, 120 × 125 cm exhibited: at "Caution-Art" in the Thomas Segal Gallery Boston, 1991 (private collection)
  • Part of Universe Reflecting Part of Universe , 2003 Four-part work on canvas on wood, 60 × 204 cm and two-part works 45 × 76 cm, exhibited and published in Kraftwerk Peripher Imst-Au, 2004 and at "Reality and Abstraction 2" Museum Liaunig , 2012 (private property)
  • Apricot Disaster , 2009, mixed media on paper, each 154 × 114 cm (owned by the Republic of Austria: Artothek des Bundes Wien)
  • Scientific Disaster V and VI , 2009, 2010, mixed media on paper, 154 × 114 cm each (private collection)
  • (First Lightning) Dark Lightning (Joe1) 2011, mixed media on paper, 154 × 114 cm (private collection)
  • South Pacific Winter , group of images 2011–2012

  • Plutonium Winter , 2012

  • Sandstone x-Ray , 2012

  • South Pacific Winter , 2012

  • Objects related to Wittgenstein , sculptures: wood, bitumen and oil paint

  • The existence and non-existence of facts is reality , 2012

  • Model of Reality - Object No. 6 , 2012

  • The existence and non-existence of facts is reality III, object W 15 , 2017

  • Undetermined country , 2012-2016

  • Undetermined country , 2012

  • Undefined land , 2013

  • Undefined land , 2013

  • Fleeting Memorials , 2012–2016

With the Fleeting Memorials, Norbert Pümpel once again grapples with the times. He relativizes memory by staging small memorial plaques, which are, however, subject to strong changes over time. By using very thin papers and various substances that change the paper over the years, Pümpel takes the deterioration into account. No concrete event or individual person is remembered here, a ten-digit sequence only indicates how many people are estimated to be living on the planet at the specified time. ( Harald Kimpel ) The Fleeting Memorials have been shown in Marburg (D), Appenzell (CH), Vienna (A) and Shibukawa (JP) since 2014

  • Fleeting Memorial 7,214,355,877 , 2014 Changing and ephemeral work

  • Fleeting Memorial 7,226,415,490 , 2014 Changing and ephemeral work

  • Fleeting Memorial 7.280.680.208 , 2014 Changing and ephemeral work

Publications

Numerous catalogs and publications on the work of Norbert Pümpel have appeared, including

  • Harald Kimpel (Ed.) Hamlet Syndrome Skulls. Exhibition catalog, Jonas Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89445-454-8
  • Silvia Höller (Ed.) Encounters. Dialogues. Insights. Exhibition catalog, Haymon Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-716-7
  • Elisabeth Walde (Ed.) Image magic and fall of the well. Visual communication from classical antiquity to current war reporting in the media, Studienverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4686-7
  • Paul Naredi-Rainer, Lukas Madersbacher (Eds.) Art in Tyrol: Volume 2 From Baroque to the Present, Tyrolia Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7022-2775-3 , Athesia Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-88- 8266-332-2
  • Christoph Bertsch, Zona Ovest: exhibition catalog, Skarabäus Studienverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7082-3224-9
  • Christoph Bertsch (Ed.) Power plant peripheral. Kraftwerk Kunst, exhibition catalog, Edizioni Medizea, 2004, ISBN 88-900171-7-1 ; Scarab Studienverlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7082-3160-0
  • Norbert Pümpel, micro stills: exhibition catalog, Concept Space Shibukawa Japan, 2002
  • Silvia Eiblmayr , Thomas Feuerstein, Variable Pieces: Structures. Credentials. Algorithmen, Triton Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-85486-138-9
  • Christoph Bertsch, Collezione Tirolo: exhibition catalog, (Italian) Edizioni Medicea, 1998, ISBN 88-900171-2-0
  • Silvie Aigner, Peter Baum, Reality and Abstraction 2 Concrete and reductive tendencies from 1980, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha, 2012 ISBN 978-3-9502610-9-7
  • Harald Kimpel (Ed.) Art @ science, Jonasverlag Marburg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89445-501-9
  • Peter Baum, Elisabeth Wassertheurer, Collection Catalog II, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha, 2015 ISBN 978-3-9503505-4-8
  • Peter Baum, Augen-Blick, new acquisitions, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha, 2016 ISBN 978-3-9503505-8-6
  • Christoph Bertsch, Rosanna Dematté, Claudia Mark, Helena Perena, Beauty before Wisdom, The Knowledge of Art, the Art of Science, Haymon Verlag, 2019 ISBN 978-3-7099-3472-2
  • Sybille Moser-Ernst, Chrietoph Bertsch, Art :: Science, University Press Innsbruck, 2019 ISBN 978-3-903187-72-6

Web links

Commons : Norbert Pümpel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reply to a parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honor ( German , pdf) Retrieved November 2012.
  2. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung, print edition from September 19, 2016
  3. ↑ Christoph Bertsch in: Paul Naredi Rainer, Lukas Madersbacher: Art in Tyrol from the Baroque to the Present , Leopold-Franzens-University, Tyrolia Verlag Innsbruck, Vienna 2007, p. 716
  4. ↑ Harald Kimpel in: .Begegenungen .Dialoge .Insights Silvia Höller (Ed.) Innsbruck, Haymonverlag, 2011 p. 162ff.
  5. ↑ Kunstforum International, Vol. 36, Mainz 1979, pp. 130–132
  6. ↑ 1984 Orwell and the Present, exhibition catalog Museum of the 20th Century / Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 1984, p. 179
  7. ↑ Harald Kimpel, The vertical danger. Air War in Art. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name, Jonas Verlag, Marburg 1993, pp. 64–67
  8. ^ Kölbl, Larcher, Rauchberger, AGAINST Religion. Memory. Body, Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 1997 p. 236 f.
  9. ^ Institute for Art History University of Innsbruck , accessed on January 28, 2012
  10. ↑ Zona Ovest, exhibition catalog, Skarabäus / Studienverlag, Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich 2007 pp. 73–75.
  11. ↑ Harald Kimpel (Ed.) Hamlet Syndrome: Skull Places, volume accompanying the exhibition of the same name, Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2011
  12. ↑ Reality and abstraction, concrete and reductive tendencies from 1980, HL Museumsverwaltung GmbH, Museum Liaunig , Neuhaus 2012, p. 128 f. ISBN 978-3-9502610-9-7 .
  13. ^ Wilhelm Otten, Otten Kunstraum Acht ohne Objekt , Nuremberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86984-073-4
  14. ↑ Harald Kimpel (Ed.) Art @ science, Jonasverlag Marburg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89445-501-9
  15. ↑ Neue Vorarlberger Zeitung October 5, 2016, page 28
  16. ↑ PARNASS art magazine, 03/2016 page 164 f.
  17. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung, November 15, 2018
  18. ↑ Christoph Bertsch, Rosanna Dematté, among others, Beauty before Wisdom, The Knowledge of Art, the Art of Science, book accompanying the exhibition of the same name, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck - Vienna, 2019 ISBN 978-3-7099-3472-2
  19. ↑ ibid .: p. 392 and p. 716
  20. ↑ 1984 Orwell and the Present, exhibition catalog Museum of the 20th Century / Museum of Modern Art Vienna, 1984, p. 179
  21. ↑ Online collection presentation of the Artothek des Bundes ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 10, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artothek-des-bundes.at
  22. ↑ Harald Kimpel (Ed.) Art @ science, Jonasverlag Marburg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89445-501-9
  23. ^ Basis wien - art, information and archive , accessed on January 28, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Pümpel, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian draftsman, painter and concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Tyrol