Identities & Fractures: Solo Exhibition of the works of Tobias Klein: Lenticular Prints and 3D-Objects

In his first solo exhibition at the Goethe-Institut in Hong Kong, the German artist Tobias Klein shows a diverse range of his oeuvre set as a series of counter-positions and inspiring comparisons. Transformations, Metamorphoses, Reshaping – Tobias Klein's works reveal a continuous transitory state of being. He articulates this state through the simultaneous representation and sequence of spatial movement, as happens in the colourful lenticular prints ‘Simulacra Naturans’ and ‘Mask lenticular’. In the work ‘Inversive Embodiment’ two different moments of the same form represent the temporal sequence of a transformation process as it happens. The attraction of the works ‘Glass Mutations III’ as well as ‘Ghost and Flower’ lies on the one hand in the interplay of the different materials, and on the other, in the different resulting forms and their changing surface structure. ‘Vessels of Vanitas’, is based on strong symmetries and the incredibly dense ornamental language, which reminds us of the plant morphology of Erich Haeckel.

All works of art – selected here by Tobias Klein and Harald Kraemer – play with the idea of searching for a new or changed identity, which is constructed through the material or the flux of the form or an interplay of these two. And like every process of identity-finding, there are breakages and ruptures. The attraction of this exhibition lies in making these visible to the viewer.