Dierk schmidt biography of christopher
Dierk schmidt biography of christopher
Dierk schmidt biography of christopher paul.
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Dierk Schmidt, born in Unna, Germany, in , studied art history and visual arts in Düsseldorf and Amsterdam.
He takes on the genre of history painting to investigate politics of representation, critically redescribing the production of the historical past and present. Dierk Schmidt has repeatedly worked on issues of colonial history, on restitution politics, international law, and on abstraction in painting, a main project being “The Division Of The Earth“ for documenta 12 in His analytical approach makes use of painting’s conceptual methods, self-reflexive on the issue of painting and capable of rationalizing representational gaps.
Schmidt´s work has been displayd in major solo and group exhibitions such as Kolonnen (KOW Berlin ), Guilts and Debts (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte reina, Sofia ) and Under Construction (Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin ), Painting and geopolitics (Gale