Artissima

31 October – 2 November 2025

30 October: preview (upon invitation only)
31 October & 1 – 2 November: public days

For Artissima 2025 Dep Art Gallery proposes a booth that traces five decades of artistic endeavour in which painting emancipates itself from the flat rectangle and confronts the viewer as object, relief, architectural fragment or luminous event.

The itinerary opens with two seminal figures of Italian Zero and Pittura Analitica — Turi Simeti (1929–2021) and Pino Pinelli (1938–2024) — whose monochrome oval protrusions and disseminated fragments already question the presumed solidity of the canvas, letting colour breathe through real shadows and the surrounding wall. Their investigations anticipate a broader European reflection on the ontology of painting that finds a rigorous, Bauhaus‑inflected counterpart in Germany with Imi Knoebel (1940). Knoebel’s shaped wood and aluminum painted constructions, alternately austere and exuberant, provide the conceptual hinge of the presentation: the moment in which pigment fully merges with industrial matter.

From this axis three artists born in 1961 explore distinct yet complementary trajectories. Gerold Miller transforms automotive lacquer on laser‑cut metal into “set” or “instant visions” that hover between picture and mirror; Regine Schumann orchestrates fluorescent Plexiglas modules whose chromatic afterglow dissolves the boundary between object and atmosphere reflecting on how we perceive colour because of the light; Wolfram Ullrich build painted steel prospective, as vectors of an alternative spatial perception, while colour reconnect to the practice of painting.

Taken together, the six positions compose a single visual essay on surface, perception and the lingering legacy of minimalism — an essay that insists that painting is no longer merely a window but an event that shares our space and our light. Beyond the Canvas – Painting as Object, Light and Space.