Sascha Nordmeyer

Sascha Nordmeyer

Born 1977 in German, lives and works in France

Represented by the Galerie La Ligne since 2021

Works by Sascha Nordmeyer

"At the limit of all attempts at creation, there are time-spaces, there is only that. These little pieces of visual space, whose connection is not given in advance, by what do you want them to be connected?"

It is this connection that Sascha Nordmeyer's work is about. This serial research initiated on paper by means of micro-reflectors cut out and activated by the artist continues on metal installations and in increasingly monumental formats. His art undoubtedly feeds as much on history as on the zeitgeist. Through a subtle and transcendent mechanism, he comes to speak to us of fundamental things, of primordial forces and cosmic order. Of connection. The primary inspiration is composed from the artist's tastes. From his attractions, his consciousness or his projections. His art penetrates time. It incorporates theses and attempts, it also establishes the future. His creation is contrast. Strong of kineticism and constructivism, she uses technology and digital technology, she enters into modernity and engages with it physically through the gesture of the hand, through the texture of the works, through the play of contrasts that she proposes, between the softness of the luminous effects and the assertive, geometrical compositions, between shadows and light.

It is precision, through the protocols used, through its majestic symmetries, through the dynamics and harmony of the movements it creates. It is lightness and transparency, through its volumes, enigmatic monoliths or immaterial scales, membranes of varying proportions whose primary function is to underline the density like so many fracture lines between the blur of reality and the intensity of contemplation. The spectator is then immersed body and mind. He moves around, absorbed by the blacks and their suddenly vivid and colourful shades, or dazzled by the benevolent radiance of the soothing, pearly whites, the stained glass windows of a new kind of temple dedicated to serenity, a kind of space station in orbit at the heart of "the essence of things". His installations affirm this vocation, which originated in antiquity, by their pyramidal composition in some cases, where the triangle and the circle sacralise the exhibition space by their symbolic significance, their architectural dimension and their monumentality.

For it is indeed a question of erecting cathedrals. Contemporary space-time with Gothic vaults and therapeutic perspectives, pointillist and benevolent evocations of supernatural power and majesty, futuristic mandalas, homage and prospective at the same time. Cathedrals of transparency, dosing with precision and subtlety the depth of the immaterial, conducive to contemplation through the essential harmony that emerges, like so many sources of emotions, plenitude and balance. Places in which the sacred is above all the possibility of an alternative and avant-garde spirituality that is only ever an authentic and ultimate message of peace. Like so many windows on a minimalist and refined aesthetic whose elegance is above all profound simplicity, a universal dimension, unexplored.

Pascale Geoffrois - journalist and art critic

Paris 2018

Sébastien Bazin (FR)

Galila Barzilaï-Hollander (BE)

Marcel Burg (FR)

Jacques Font (FR)

Jean-Marie Gille (BE)

Madeleine Millot-Durrenberger (FR)

Marc Modert (LU)

Slotine – Le Fruit Intégral (FR)

HM Swiss Privat collection (CH)