Bernd Ribbeck

Overview

Ribbeck’s works lend new life to the genuine link between geometric abstraction and metaphysical spheres, letting this energy unfold in a pictorial space of wonderfully structured surfaces and backgrounds that are only hinted at.

Although the artist does not share modernism’s utopian faith in the future, he expresses modernist attitudes and some of modernism’s seemingly lost themes – for example, Theo van Doesburg’s idea of the “phenomenon of pure, inherent harmony.” (1) In today’s world of profound societal changes that are based on all kinds of catastrophic scenarios, the longing for an order that provides stability continues to grow. In this light, a world of images built on elementary and harmonic laws such as Bernd Ribbeck’s seems more relevant than ever today.

- Dominique Von Burg