Archive Hatje Cantz Verlag | Platino

Platino Unhinges Space. What Happens When Coordinates Are Lacking, When Spatial Structures Dissolve? The Color Interventions By The Stuttgart-Based Artist Force Us To See Things In A New Way, To Submit Ourselves To A Process Of Appropriating The Exhibition Context. Lots Of Red Along With Other Areas And Shades Of Color Restructure The White Cube, Lever Out Lines Of Sight, Reinterpret Spaces. Platino (*1948 In Öhringen) Initially Concentrates His Artistic Inquiry On Stagings In His Studio, Living For Years In Carefully Composed, Predominantly Red Rooms: His Spaces. The Externs Constitute A Further, More Intense Level In His Oeuvre: Acrylic Glazed Cibachrome Prints Of Installation Documents Whose Reflecting Surfaces Draw Viewers And Their Surroundings Into The Picture—A Repositioning Of Art Not Only In The Literal Sense. The Volume Documents A Large-Scale Installation By The Artist At The Württembergischer Kunstverein.