Heinz Frank

The forthcoming exhibition is the very first presentation of the works of the Austrian artist Heinz Frank at the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery. The title of the exhibition is also a statement made by the artist: "Eternally faithful is the emptiness of the hole. Everything spoken is an inner and innermost self-portrait". Such statements take the viewer straight to the essence of Heinz Frank's work. Everything begins with a thought, which is first felt and then given shape.  He quite literally lends material to these thoughts and feelings, so to speak, in order to fix them. Heinz Frank gives shape to his ideas with the aid of found objects of wood or metal, parts of furniture and, most preferably, stones. These objects are combined to form mysterious and enigmatic assemblages that mostly evoke the  image of a hole, an eye, a brain or other parts of the human body. Heinz Frank's art is about showing how everything is linked together and what ultimately remains. In exploring the materials he uses, Heinz Frank seeks such diametric opposites as hard/soft, cold/hot, inside/outside, beginning/end and shows what lies in between.  Seen in conjunction with his aptly laconic statements, the objects and assemblages speak for themselves as expressions of what was once just a thought.