Philipp Simon at KIRCHGASSE

Artists: Philipp Simon

Exhibition title: Incomplete Nature

Venue: KIRCHGASSE, Steckborn, Switzerland

Date: September 4 – October 16, 2022

Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and KIRCHGASSE, Steckborn

An eternity passed without sense. Basic substance and fibres wafted around, touched each other lifelessly and drifted away again.

Nothing wanted to be anything.

At some point, the pieces fell into a directed movement; hesitantly at first, but then they tended more and more urgently towards a gravitational well, from which something structuring rose. Something began to roll clarifyingly through the space, leaving behind beautiful connections.

The new order consisted of finely tuned links that immediately became entangled in reciprocal work – everywhere rattled syntheses – here something assembled, there something split off, elsewhere a stable filament emerged from remnants that stretched taut like a sail.

Naturally, structures also emerged that behaved like containers. With them, mental edges and boundaries were formed that gave the unsuspecting matter representative meaning; useful information could suddenly be gained from confused movements. In context, this information ultimately established a sustainable framework of meaning, and things that could be confidently said to exist henceforth determined the picture.

Translation: Susanne Kaelin

Philipp Simon, Installation view at Kirchgasse Gallery, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Year 3810, UV Print, Paper, Wood, Rivets, 122 × 89 cm, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Installation view at Kirchgasse Gallery, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Year 2093, UV Print, Paper, Wood, Rivets, 122 × 89 cm, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Installation view at Kirchgasse Gallery, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Year 2703, UV Print, Paper, Wood, Rivets, 122 × 89 cm, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Installation view at Kirchgasse Gallery, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, View from the living room, Pencil on Paper, Framed, 40 × 50 cm, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, And the branching arrow of time, Pencil on Paper, Framed, 40 × 50 cm, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Installation view at Kirchgasse Gallery, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Metaphoric pattern studied from the inside, Pencil on Paper, Framed, 40 × 50 cm, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Installation view at Kirchgasse Gallery, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Cat, Pencil on Paper, Framed, 40 × 50 cm, 2014 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, A moment evolving, Pencil on Paper, Framed, 40 × 50 cm, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Installation view at Kirchgasse Gallery, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery

Philipp Simon, Registration, analysis and classification, Pencil on Paper, Framed, 40 × 50 cm, 2022 / Photo: Cedric Mussano / Courtesy: the artist and Kirchgasse Gallery