Bey­ond the vi­si­ble: Na­tu­re in new di­men­si­ons — Jo­chen Hein and Mi­guel Roth­schild at the Mu­se­um Kunst der West­küs­te

The ex­hi­bi­ti­on “Bey­ond the vi­si­ble” pres­ents two ar­tists who bo­th co­me from the mu­se­um’s ar­tist-in-re­si­dence pro­gram­me and work wi­th very dif­fe­rent tech­ni­ques, but share a com­mon pas­si­on: The in­ten­si­ve ex­plo­ra­ti­on of na­tu­ral phe­no­me­na. Jo­chen Hein, a Ger­man pain­ter from Ham­burg, and Mi­guel Roth­schild, an Ar­gen­ti­ni­an in­stal­la­ti­on ar­tist ba­sed in Ber­lin, al­low the land­scape to be­co­me the main prot­ago­nist. Their works de­fy at­tri­bu­ti­on to a spe­ci­fic epoch — the­re are no traces of ci­vi­li­sa­ti­on, ma­king it dif­fi­cult to gau­ge the sca­le of the na­tu­re de­pic­ted. Storms, fog, rain and light moods are cap­tu­red in mo­nu­men­tal for­mats and fo­cus on at­mo­sphe­ric ch­an­ges on the west co­ast and Föhr.

The ex­hi­bi­ti­on in­vi­tes vi­si­tors to ex­ami­ne their own po­si­ti­on in re­la­ti­on to na­tu­re. While Jo­chen Hein works in se­ries to vi­sua­li­se the chan­ging times of day and lend the sur­roun­dings ever new ex­pres­si­ve power, Mi­guel Roth­schild breaks up the sur­faces of the pic­tures — th­rough burn marks, ho­les and unu­su­al ma­te­ri­al pro­ces­sing. It is a chall­enge of its own for the view­er to con­front the ele­men­tal force of na­tu­re and to ex­pe­ri­ence ar­tis­tic ex­plo­ra­ti­on an­ew in times of dra­ma­tic cli­ma­te ch­an­ge. Hein and Roth­schil­d’s works tran­s­cend the vi­si­ble boun­da­ries and open up sen­so­ry ex­pe­ri­en­ces bey­ond the ever­y­day.