Especially for De Vleeshal Felix Schramm has built an immense installation which almost appears to have been ripped off another building and then implanted in the existing architecture – as if it were a prosthesis. This effect is achieved through the use of parts of walls, floors, ceilings and passageways, constructed from plasterboards, steel profiles, clay and lathing.
Whilst Schramm’s extemporaneous style is highly contemporary, his precise command of shape, space, texture and colour is akin to the last century’s 1970’s generation of formalist sculptors.
The exhibition at De Vleeshal marks Schramm’s first major solo presentation in the Netherlands. Previously, Schramm has exhibited at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
