The Artist
Veit Schmidleitner
As a developer and researcher for NASA and BASF, Schmidleitner‘s artistic work pushes technology and materials beyond their original use cases to create sculptures and paintings that take the viewer into unrecognisable terrain. Using principles of metamerism to deepen the relationships between colour and light with pigments exclusively developed and used by Schmidleitner, he allows his works to speak their own visual language. Physical metal panels offer fragments of an unfinished narrative that raises more questions than answers. The cuts and bends of the surfaces create distorted reflections that reveal not only the artworks themselves, but also the uncertain reality in which they exist. The precise and calculated work is contrasted with the chemical reactions. Schmidleitner‘s works are created by interpreting a traditional 6000-year-old lacquering technique from Japan, in combination with the most modern mate-rials.Quantum Oddity describes the correlation between creating something out of nothing; striving for the un-known and unseen: to questioning everything.
"Design is a relationship between form & content"
Parsec Exhibition
Physical layers of metal and paint are embedded with cryptographic elements depicting religious and social iconography, offering fragments of an unfInished narrative that suggests more questions than answers. The cuts and bends of the metal and various surface finishes create distorted reflections, revealing not only the artwork itself but the uncertain reality in which it exists.
The precise, calculated metalwork is offset by the chemical reactions of applying lacquer, which can yield varied and unanticipated results. Using these traditional lacquer techniques with modern digital technologies gives Schmidleitner's work an energy that communicates on levels beyond our present, physical reality.
