Andreas Schmid
Born 1955 in Stuttgart, Germany
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“Andreas Schmid’s artistic work is primarily situational and temporal. He treats existing spaces as transitory locations, as sites of transition between external and internal perception that reveal themselves as the observer moves within the space. Schmid’s work could be called performative, as it focuses on possibilities— not just describing the existing architectural structures, but making visible and tangible the spaces hidden behind them, present in a latent state…. In his location-dependent, space-specific and conceptually developed installations, Andreas Schmid commonly brings together various media: light, drawing, sculptural stretched material, photography and temporary drawing-based interventions in public and natural spaces. In the language of the basic ideas of his exhibitions, spatial lines, colored neon tubes with electronically controlled light intensities and rhythms and landscape photography represent the virulent, the ephemeral, the ever-changing nature of aesthetic experience in the act of traversing space, a moment of transitioning and potential…”
— Renate Wiehager in: Andreas Schmid, Light as Drawing in Space, catalogue, edited by Renate Wiehager for Daimler AG, Daimler Art Collection, Elanders Germany GmbH, Germany 2018