This contemporary artwork features a stark black background with a clear, minimalist arrangement of white letters forming the full English alphabet. The composition is symmetrical and balanced, with a horizontal line of orange hues running across the center, adding a subtle pop of color. The simple, geometric shapes and clean lines of the typography suggest a focus on the essential elements of language and communication. The artist's use of high-contrast colors and bold, sans-serif lettering evokes a sense of directness and formal precision, characteristic of the Bauhaus and other modernist design movements. ...
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. ...
Dépendance is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2003 by Michael Callies and Stephan Jaax in Brussels. Situated in the heart of the city, the gallery has established itself as a pivotal space for critical and experimental artistic practices. Since its inception, dépendance has been dedicated to presenting works that challenge conventions and engage with social and political themes. The gallery's program includes both emerging and established artists, fostering a dynamic dialogue within the contemporary art scene. ...
