art

“the mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art”

- johann wolfgang von goethe

ever since the 1970s and 1980s i concern myself in understanding the meaning and appearance of architecture and its ideas. contemporary architecture obtaining its quality from looking in detail at the existing structure is arguable. this is the reason for the need to recover existing structures by using new materials and design concepts. my task as an architect consists of developing clear, intelligible spaces and shapes by using “transparent membranes” in terms of opening the building envelope by openings in order to provide the observers with a source of inspiration. due to this understanding of architecture spaces disclose not only in one but many dimensions.

during my studies at the academy of fine arts in kassel and the following academic study of architecture i was heavily influenced by the european geometrical abstract tradition whilst participating in study trips. especially “bauhaus” (walter gropius, mies van der rohe), the “de stijl group” (piet mondrian, theo van doesburg) and the russian constructivism had a high impact on me.

after returning to huenfeld in 1986 i immersed myself in concrete reductive art. iI was especially interested in the square - an elemental shape and a symbol for modern design. a fundamental shape of architecture which can be found in my arts and architecture.

i am aiming on provoking space-oriented experiences by my paintings and sculptures. my goal is to use a reductive way of anticipating entities and to not decorate my works with colours. i intend to reduce my art on fundamental colours: red, blue, yellow as well as black and white in order to prevent the viewer being distracted by decoration. my art uses architectural motives which are partly even unrecognizable.

dr. bozena kowalska wrote on the occasion of the exhibition: malerei und architektur 1999 “free of conjectures only is the fact, that space and rhythm are the essential problems which fascinate charly moeller. (...) but here again, the depiction of space in his paintings is again atypical. yi-fu tuan differentiates between three basic types of  spatial character: 1. the mystical, 2. the pragmatic, 3. the abstract, theoretical.”

the painter francois morellet imagines an artist in the following way “as a director that inspires humans to act constructively”. this point of view is of most importance in the new century.