Dichroic Configuartions

Hanna Roeckle’s works take a both figurative and literal stand between painting and sculpture. Instead, the work is based on spatial structures and serial systems whose constructive clarity enters into a polyphonic dialogue with the sensual flow of the artist’s color combinations.

Art and research are inseparable in this oeuvre,which incorporates a wide range of findings drawn from geometry and physics, systems theory, history,design, and architecture. (bz)

Hanna Roeckle’s oeuvre occupies a distinctive and unconventionalposition in this dynamic space. Armed with the rigour of astringent concept, Roeckle has proceeded from formal working hypothesescoming from a minimalist background and created a bodyof work in recent decades that is finely balanced between theseart history constants and variables generated by current realities.Roeckle has created a typology of work series that refer to eachother, develop following their own logic, and thus conform to the desire of minimalism for non-referentiality. Other minimalist tenets arealso followed: the paints used are from the industry. The materials are regular commercially available mediumdensity fibreboard (MDF) or fibreglass (GFRP) and the creation of works is mostly delegated to external companies. (cd)

With their lacquered, mirror-like fibreglass composite surfaces, the sculptures put on a sumptuous display in shining blue, purple, pink, copper, light green and golden hues that change with the light reaching them. At the same time, the sculptures also pick up colours from their surroundings. The effects produced by these shimmering colours are ultimately realized in the eye of the beholder.

The mystery of perpetual change unfolds as individual bands of colour generate a varied and playful mix of light and shadow. Reflections from the gallery environment add to this, as do the points of light that seem to shatter the sculptures. This phenomenon causes the sculptures to transcend their own materiality. But with their clearly defined form, then again, they also refer to themselves. (dvb) This effect is created by using dichroic lacquer in hues especially developed and mixed for Hanna Roeckle’s works according to her specifications. (db)

ln their aesthetic perfection, they appear hermetic at first sight, but their mysterious and unfathomable depths quickly reveal themselves to those who engage with them. ln her works, Hanna Roeckle transforms the thoughts that assail her and the perturbing questions she has for herself and the world into clearly structured forms. (aak)

* excerpts from the publication HANNA ROECKLE – CONFIGURATIONS IN FLOW, 2017-2021