In his works, Gerold Miller addresses questions of imagery at the intersection of sculpture, wall surface, and space. His series of lacquered and high-gloss polished aluminum frames - "ready-mix" - brings together space and wall. The sculptures made of square steel or aluminum strips enclose a wall surface while simultaneously separating it from the surrounding space. Gerold Miller thus consistently advances the idea of the Ready-Made with the experiences of Minimal Art. He works with clearly defined formal means and materials. They are designed to create a disconcerting sensory presence without representing identifiable content. However, the seemingly meaningless metal frame always forms the crucial point in the various spatial concepts where art as a social field is thematized. Image as a concept means creating a counter-image, a radicalization that draws the surface image into a thought image.
The exhibition "get ready" is to be understood as a challenge. The sculptural wall works, a wall-related color gradient on posters, and a spatial installation specifically conceived for the WerkRaum in the Hamburger Bahnhof demand engagement with a concept of image that is not established exclusively through seeing, but extends into space in its refusal of pictorial representation.
