CIRCLES (DRAWING UNIVERSE)

Work in progress since 2001; drawn freehand from countless fine lines; empty ballpoint pens, ballpoint pens, pencils or colored pencils on paper; 8 x 8 to 79 x 79 inches.

2020 contemporary drawing zeitgenössische zeichnung paper papier modern abstract concept art moderne abstrakte konzept kunst helmut kirchlechner germanycontemporary drawing, zeitgenössische Zeichnung, varying materials and sizes, verschiedene Materialien und Größen, Helmut Kirchlechner
1. 2020 contemporary drawing 2020, zeitgenössische Zeichnung, varying materials and sizes, verschiedene Materialien und Größen, Helmut Kirchlechner
2. 2020 contemporary drawing, zeitgenössische Zeichnung, varying materials and sizes, verschiedene Materialien und Größen, Helmut Kirchlechner
3. 2020 contemporary drawing zeitgenössische zeichnung paper papier modern abstract concept art moderne abstrakte konzept kunst helmut kirchlechner germanycontemporary drawing, zeitgenössische Zeichnung, varying materials and sizes, verschiedene Materialien und Größen, Helmut Kirchlechner
2020 contemporary drawing, zeitgenössische Zeichnung, varying materials and sizes, verschiedene Materialien und Größen, Helmut Kirchlechner
2020 contemporary drawing zeitgenössische zeichnung paper papier modern abstract concept art moderne abstrakte konzept kunst helmut kirchlechner germanycontemporary drawing, zeitgenössische Zeichnung, varying materials and sizes, verschiedene Materialien und Größen, Helmut Kirchlechner
2020 contemporary drawing, zeitgenössische Zeichnung, varying materials and sizes, verschiedene Materialien und Größen, Helmut Kirchlechner
2020 contemporary drawing, zeitgenössische Zeichnung, varying materials and sizes, verschiedene Materialien und Größen, Helmut Kirchlechner
2020 Contemporary Drawing 2020 contemporary drawing, zeitgenössische Zeichnung, varying materials and sizes, verschiedene Materialien und Größen, Helmut Kirchlechner
2020 Contemporary Drawing 2020
contemporary drawing 2021
contemporary drawing c
contemporary-drawing-9
contemporary drawing x
contemporary-drawing 5
contemporary drawing y
contemporary drawing e
contemporary-drawing 4
_MKY0900
_MKY0905
_MKY0862
_MKY0860
_MKY0918
_MKY0928
_MKY0912
_MKY0868
contemporary drawing a
contemporary drawing 12
contemporary drawing 2021
PlayPlay
previous arrow
next arrow

Current

Anonymous Drawings & Line Fiction:

11/24 – 01/25 Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin

02/25 – 03/25 Kunsthaus Erfurt

05/25 Hyperculturalpassengers, Hamburg

DESCRIPTION

The designs are exciting and effective – the view into infinity and the astonishing vastness of space opens up another dimension that makes me think and be amazed.

Prof. Flora von Spreti, artist and art therapist

Helmut Kirchlechner is a drawing artist. He draws circles on small and large pieces of paper, starting from the inside out, with pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen. Depending on the pressure, the spirally drawn circles appear three-dimensionally buried or raised, rough, fibrous, also colored, shiny. Helmut Kirchlechner finds his artistic aesthetics (perception) in repetition. The lines often become so fine that they stand out and become immaterial, disappearing into space like the receding sounds of a string instrument. As a viewer, I also see stars, stardust and I am constantly subject to this enchantment. In his works, circles and squares (format of papers) are dimensions and image-building, and suggestive of space. Detaching from the ground, when the „emptiness“ pushes itself into the visual foreground, the „structure“ stands out.

Gondoletta Wiegand, Munich, art historian and curator

The fascination of Helmut Kirchlechner`s artistic approach lies in the radicality and simplicity of the concept on the one hand and the resulting concentration and intensity of the visual appearance on the other. Although the limitation to one form and a clearly defined approach may at first appear to be an excessive restriction on the possibilities of artistic expression, a closer look and insight reveals an unexpected richness that combines a variety of color, techniques and material quality with a high level of energetic charge, meditative power and strong visual presence. What characterizes Helmut Kirchlechner`s work is the opposite of arbitrariness, namely clarity and extreme reduction in the conceptual, which does not exclude the sensual qualities of the works and an almost infinite potential of possibilities, but rather makes them possible. Added to this is the fact that the shape of the circle is not just any shape, but the simplest and at the same time the most perfect shape, which has the highest (symbolic) power.

Johannes Koegler, Frankfurt, art historian and curator

NotE

The pieces suggest an analogy to celestial bodies; like individual fingerprints, they are similar yet unique variations. Microcosm and macrocosm. I like the correlation between elemental doodling – as kids sensually experience in their first attempts to draw („primitive coils“) – and our universe („the turned into one“). As a reflection of reality in its endless cycles and infinite variations.

Counterpoint

Work in progress since 1999; an intuitive diary in pictures, which is largely created during everyday art therapy.

contemporary drawing 2020 skizze hund
contemporary drwaing 2020
contemporary drawin 2020
contemporary drawing 2020
contemporary drawing 2020
contemporary drawing 2020
zeitgenössische Zeichnung, contemporary drawing
contemporary drawing 2020
2021 contemporary drawing
20240701_154305 - Kopie
farbklecksmensch
pause
fliegen
flußlandschaft
hund
träne
sitzendermannmitgedanke
kleineschwester web
aussicht web
schafmüde
vulkan web
ruderboot web
akrobat web
see
apfel
raupen
wal web
freund
november
nest
pferd
spachtelwinterland
piz buin
oiseau
PASING-E7000137jpg
yeti
verwaltung2-1
verwaltung4-1
spiegelei
mann
perlenkrabbe
isar
gothicgirl
frei
filzstiftlandschaft
derguteton
blindenhund
goghen
filzen
000002
previous arrow
next arrow

Helmut Kirchlechner

* 1965

Carpentry apprenticeship with distinction, „The good form“

Art degree and master student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Prof. Franz Weisshaar

Art therapy degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Prof. Gertraud Schottenloher

Works in public collections

Bayerische Staatsgemaeldesammlungen, Munich

Anonymous Drawings Archive, Berlin

The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, New York

Staatskanzlei Bayern, Munich