Frank Aumueller
Aumuellers jigsaw puzzle pictures are results of a multistage production process.
Expressive, partially with strong autolacquers created paintings form the basis. Aumueller then takes
photos of these abstract color experiments and cuts these photos by machine into
jigsaw puzzles. Afterwards he reassembles individual parts, whereby the original parts produce a
new picture in a new composition.
At first sight the jigsaw puzzle pictures appear as a "pleasent idea": The result of time-consuming
artistic creation is presented as a well-known game for children and adults. This appears
to be an ironic move by Aumueller. However, irony is not the artist’s concern.
There is more to the jigsaw puzzles than just a nice conception: Aumueller labels his jigsaw
puzzles "unstable equilibria" - a suitable description for many things in a world which
in many ways appears to be stable and arranged. The jigsaw puzzle is more than just a means
of formal expression. It is metaphoric message as well as a clue to the artistic intention.
- born in 1960 in Stuttgart, Germany
- studies at the National Academy of Arts Stuttgart with Professor K.R.H Sonderborg (1982 to 1990)
- postgraduate studies of painting at the National Academy of Arts Stuttgart with Professor P.U.Dreyer (1989-1991)
- scholarship holder of the art foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg (1993)
- scholarship Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (1996)
- studio scholarship Berlin, the art foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg (2001)
- lecturer at Arndt University Greifswald, Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut for art sciences (2002)
2005
- Foto-Puzzles, fine arts 2219 | contemporary fine arts gallery, Stuttgart
2004
- SWR, Stuttgart
- International Foto-Triennale, Esslingen (K)
- House of artists and city hall, Ulm [C]
- Federal state representation Baden-Wuerttemberg, Berlin
2003
- Die Verweigerung des Frank Aumueller, Gallery Bumiller, Stuttgart
- Playing games, Schauraum Ravensburg [SE]
2002
- Handmade, Gallery Klaus Peter Goebel, Stuttgart [SE]
- B&B-Gallery, Helsinki
2001
- Stars & Stripes, Gallery Klaus Peter Goebel, Stuttgart [SE]
- Editionen, Gallery Klaus Peter Goebel
- Fingerspitzengefuehl, Gallery der Stadt Sindelfingen
- Retour de Paris, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stg. [C]
2000
- Race-Colour-Identity, University of New South Wales, Sydney [SE]
- passages / crossings exhibition art prize City of Bühl [C]
1999
- Facing Reality, Gruner & Jahr publishing house, Hamburg [SE]
- Institut Francais de Stuttgart
1998
- Face to face, Forschungsstelle für Psychotherapie, Stuttgart [SE]
- Adventures of identity, Goethe Institut, Sydney [SE]
- A portrait of contemporary society, Art Museum, Brisbane [SE]
- Hospitalhof, Stuttgart [C]
- works on paper, Gallery Klaus Peter Goebel, Stuttgart
1997
- C.I.A. - part 1, Institut Francais de Stuttgart [SE]
- C.I.A. - part 2, Gallery Klaus Peter Goebel, Stuttgart [SE] [C]
- C.I.A. - part 3, Goethe Institut, Paris [SE]
- Le parvis, Centre Méridien, Tarbes-Ibos [SE] [C]
- B&B-Gallery, Paris
1995
- art foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart [C]
- Aalen, town hall
- Ostfildern, urban gallery
- Goeppingen, town hall
- Bonndorf, Schloss
- Singen, art museum
- Exhibition Microsoft art price - CeBit Hannover
- Exhibition art price Diocese Rottenburg-Suttgart
1994
- Als wärs ein Stück von mir, Gallery Klaus Peter Goebel, Stuttgart [SE]
- Ludwigsburg - exhibition hall Karlskaserne
- Museum Ulm
- Town hall Kehl [C]
- Sparkasse Pforzheim: Photography as art
1992
- KX - Kunst auf Kampnagel
1991
- Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste, Stuttgart [C]
- Multimediale Karlsruhe
1989
- Gallery Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart [SE] [C]
- AA.P.A.C., Nevers
- Gallery Ils Arrivent, St.Etienne
- D.R.A.C., Orleans
- Ecole Regionale des Beaux Arts, Quimper
1988
- Photographer XPO - Gallery, Ida Kaufmann, Hamburg
1987
- Art with photography, Gallery Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart [C]
single exhibition
[SE] | catalog [C]
2004
- Art price of the Dioezese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
1995
- Microsoft art price
- Art price of the Dioezese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
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