Tim Berresheim
Tim Berresheim is one of the main protagonists of contemporary, computer-generated art. Living and working in Aachen, Germany, Berresheim is an artist and musician as well as founder of the record label and project space New Amerika. Berresheim’s work is a constant interplay between the handmade and the digital, the traditional and the very contemporary. He uses the vocabulary of painting, particularly line and brush work, but rather than executing them in oil or acrylic by hand on his panels, the lines or “brushstrokes” are made up of precisely rendered 3-D objects, hair or granular molecules for instance. In other instances, idealized figures are covered in intricate tattoos, which are painstakingly hand drawn on paper in the studio and then digitized. The digital “skin” is then wrapped around the figures using sophisticated 3-D modeling techniques with the utmost visual and perspectival accuracy.
Berresheim’s recent solo exhibitions include a retrospective at the Ludwig Forum for Contemporary Art, Aachen, the Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Kunstmuseum Celle, and Kunsthalle Gießen, Gießen, Germany. Other recent exhibitions include Villa Merkel Esslingen, Germany, Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil, Switzerland and a two person show with Matthias Schauffler at Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago. His most recent catalogs 2003- 2015 and Auge …
Tim Berresheim is one of the main protagonists of contemporary, computer-generated art. Living and working in Aachen, Germany, Berresheim is an artist and musician as well as founder of the record label and project space New Amerika. Berresheim’s work is a constant interplay between the handmade and the digital, the traditional and the very contemporary. He uses the vocabulary of painting, particularly line and brush work, but rather than executing them in oil or acrylic by hand on his panels, the lines or “brushstrokes” are made up of precisely rendered 3-D objects, hair or granular molecules for instance. In other instances, idealized figures are covered in intricate tattoos, which are painstakingly hand drawn on paper in the studio and then digitized. The digital “skin” is then wrapped around the figures using sophisticated 3-D modeling techniques with the utmost visual and perspectival accuracy.
Berresheim’s recent solo exhibitions include a retrospective at the Ludwig Forum for Contemporary Art, Aachen, the Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Kunstmuseum Celle, and Kunsthalle Gießen, Gießen, Germany. Other recent exhibitions include Villa Merkel Esslingen, Germany, Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil, Switzerland and a two person show with Matthias Schauffler at Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago. His most recent catalogs 2003- 2015 and Auge & Welt (2015) were both published by Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne.
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