Christian Flamm approaches the poetics of abstraction and the politics of form through collage, drawing, and mixed-media installations. Reworking visual elements from Modernist traditions, mid-century graphic design, and everyday ephemera, he creates fragmented compositions that disrupt perception, evoke memory, and open up fractured narratives. Working primarily with found materials—magazine clippings, archival paper, and printed matter—Flamm assembles arrangements that both embrace and destabilize formal harmony. His practice is marked by a sensitivity to texture, geometry, and visual rhythm, often invoking Constructivist and Bauhaus aesthetics while subverting their utopian ideals. Flamm’s compositions resist fixed interpretation; instead, they unfold as visual riddles, shaped by intuitive processes and chance encounters. Through deliberate layering and spatial shifts, he invites viewers to reflect on systems of meaning, authorship, and the instability of image-making. With a minimalist palette and precise yet playful execution, Flamm reclaims obsolete or discarded materials, imbuing them with new context and life. His practice engages with themes of fragmentation, historical residue, and the quiet tension between order and chaos, proposing abstraction as both a formal exercise and a conceptual inquiry into the nature of representation. ...
