The Berlin-born artist GEROLD MILLER (1961 Altshausen, Germany) is preoccupied with the question how to leave the classical sphere of painting and liberate the invention of an image from traditional visual patterns. Radical reduction and monochrome colour areas are his response. With minimal usage of forms and colours his objects are both pictures and sculptures at the same time.

GEROLD MILLER works continuously with the means of repetition. After finding the form, he varies this as in his series Set, or in the Instant Visions, by modifying colours and sizes. Instant Vision 242 and Instant Vision 244 in this exhibition are impressive by the variation of the colours pink and red in bold combination with silver. Five Sets (666-670), of the same size in medium format, bring to mind earlier works in the series. These were based on an extremely precise and minimalistic reduced principle of composition of right-angular colour areas overlaying each other. Now the rectangles have given way to a square located in the centre of the picture which is surrounded by multi-coloured spaces. The monochrome nature of the early Sets has been replaced by polychromatic works which dilute the stringency of the forms and range from cyclamen to egg-yoke-yellow.