Hartmut Böhm, or-or, 2015/2016

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Hartmut Böhm first conceived the idea for his new group of artwork "the table piece group" in 2013. These are arrangements of found objects from the studio, drawing apparatus, working materials, working tools, adhesive tape rolls, index card boxes, invitation cards, and brochures on simple tables, arrangements in which the individual object becomes part of a formally developed vocabulary, a visually composed Arrangement. The artwork commissioned by the Daimler Art Collection, or-or, 2016, is a continuation of this series, and can be seen as a visual essay on the subject of his artistic oeuvre. Passing along this seven-meter-long display, the viewer passes through the vocabulary of Hartmut Böhm's intellectual landscape. This artwork, which contains a wide range of material from the realms of typographical objects, of artists' materials, and of selected objects from the studio, can be read in a number of different ways. The artist himself has offered the following terms for the consideration of anyone attempting to read the piece: matrix and metaphor, emptiness and volume, overlayering and penetration, system and syntax, form and structure.