Somewhere in the wider circle…
Inauguration Saturday 12 November at 11.00 am
Through Klaus Münch’s perturbing but also extraordinarily realistic forms, we can read less visible aspects of our universe/world, yet loaded with implications, especially in the light of what has happened over the years of pandemics on the one hand and major scientific discoveries on the other. From viruses that have changed the fate of history to gravitational waves and merging black hole that fold infinite space just like sheets of paper, our universe, and us with it, oscillates relentlessly between the infinitely small and the infinitely large.
Klaus Münch’s work seems to perceive dark omens but also all the richness of these realities with extreme lucidity, with a vein of visionary and post-romantic utopianism typical of those other worlds that only science fiction film writers and directors have been able to imagine.
The exhibition curator Bruno Corà said that “those offered by Münch’s imagery, with its curved Plexiglas domes or domes screen-printed with images of microscopic enlargements of biocellular organisms, whose phantasmagorical morphologies he has been exploring for years, appear to us like constellations articulated in groups of galaxies“.
The exhibition Nel più ampio cerchio in qualche luogo (R.M. Rilke), consists of around fifty works, including large drawings, pvc sheets and semi-transparent and mirrored coloured resin sculptures created between 1987 and 2022, installed in the ground floor spaces of Palazzo Collicola, becomes a voyage through organic and cosmic, artificial and spontaneous, synthetic and bacterial forms of life, an imaginative journey of great strength and fragility at the same time, in which the gaze and the seduction of seeing through represent the subliminal content of the exhibition.
A catalogue published by Forma with critical texts by Palazzo Collicola director Marco Tonelli, Bruno Corà and Aldo Iori will be published for the occasion.
Biographical note on the artist
Klaus Münch was born in Freiburg (Germany) in 1953. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara and graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He lives and works between Germany and Italy. His first solo exhibition was held in 1987 at Studio Gianni Caruso in Turin, which was followed by other solo exhibitions at Galleria Rossana Ferri in Modena (1993), Galerie Albert Baumgarten in Freiburg (1995) and Opera Paese in Rome (2000), Giardino at CAMEC in La Spezia (2006), Nuovi Organismi spaziali at Palazzo Panichi in Pietrasanta (2013), Gocce di spazi paralleli at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan (2016), Resine, PVC, Cupole (1987-2018) at CAMUSAC in Cassino (2018-2019). He has exhibited in various group exhibitions in European and Italian museums and spaces including Nebeneben in Munich (1986), Musée d’Art et Histoire in Metz (1988), in the Jeune Sculpture exhibition at Port d’Austerlitz in Paris (1990), at the Pinacoteca Civica in Fabriano in the exhibition Contemporanea (1997), the Kunstverein Freiburg in Freiburg (2005), while in 2017 he took part in both the exhibition Artsite – Residenze Reali nei Castelli di Gove e Racconigi and the Palazzo Belmonte Riso in Palermo. In 2002 he took part in the Scultura internazionale event at La Mandria, Venaria Reale in Turin, in 2006 he was invited to the 12th International Sculpture Biennial in Carrara and in 2007 he exhibited in the Artempo show at Palazzo Fortuny in Venice as part of the LII Venice Biennial. In 2012 he won the competition for the installation of a work in the city of Donaueschingen in Germany as part of the Biedermann Museum’s Heirnattage Donaueschingen Skulpturenweg event. His two most recent exhibitions are in 2020 with the Plastic Fantastic exhibition at Galerie Albert Baumgarten in Freiburg and in 2021 at the Biennale Socle du Monde at HEART Museum in Herning, Denmark.
