The work of Daniel Knorr, who has participated in the documenta and Venice Biennale, is as broad as it is multifaceted. His installation and sculptural works, photographs, performances, and public art projects focus on sociopolitical and societal issues that range from biopolitics all the way to the art system.
Daniel Knorr’s fourth solo exhibition in the gallery features three groups of works that have emerged out of his Depression Elevations series. Like Depression Elevations, the first series, called Canvas Sculptures, does not rely on a classic support. For these wall objects, Knorr employs a special technique in which he separates the painting from its ground – in other words, the canvas. The material he uses for this enables him to form and fold these three-dimensional works freely in all directions. Reinterpretations of modernism hint at different art historical elements expressed in the form of luminous colors on the smooth surfaces of these expansive wall objects.