Uta Weber

The exhibition of Leverkusen-born artist Uta Weber shows works that utilised a reduced colour and form vocabulary. These are objects with eccentric and concentric circles made of shiny epoxy resin, which become centres in glowing colours. The artist refers to a coloristic and design vocabulary that has its origins in abstract art at the start of the 20th century and led to the Bauhaus school of thought, which, beyond pure art, wanted to intervene in the lives of people. Weber draws from aspects of Bauhaus in her work and combines it with the colourful advertising aesthetics of the 1970s when she was growing up: The round objects in the exhibition DOT indeed reveal an affinity for the logo of DELIAL suntan lotion or the ALDI bag designed by German abstract painter Günter Fruhtrunk in 1970.

Uta Weber is known for objects made of different types of synthetics, which are a symbiosis between concrete art and the representational depiction of everyday items and consumer goods such as confectionary. Among these works is “smartie”, which is also part of this exhibition.

The artist’s objects as well as her window installations (e.g. “BLOW – FLOW – GLOW” at the MQ ART BOX 2017) refer to the influence of advertising and product aesthetics, while simultaneously leaving behind these points of reference in order to reappear as purely geometrical, abstract signs. From this ambiguity and the mix of components, Uta Weber’s work draws its power, achieving a suggestive clarity and presence through the texture of the unusual materials used.