Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art

“I want to paint nothingness, which is everything, silence, light, measure, order, harmony. The infinite.” With these words, Antonio Calderara described what he sought in his painting. They also encapsulate an idea that runs through the exhibition Silence: a concentration on the essential and the notion that reduction can give rise to a particular intensity.

In Calderara’s work, light itself almost becomes the subject of painting. Raimund Girke and Robert Ryman explore the possibilities of the colour white, while Piero Manzoni, in his Achromes, dispenses with colour as a means of artistic expression. In the works of Heinz Mack, Hermann Goepfert, Walter Leblanc, Hal Busse, Dadamaino and Turi Simeti, light, structure and surface become essential means of expression. Other works in the exhibition find their silence in repetition, emptiness, material or restrained gesture.

In the exhibition, these works of the 20th and 21st centuries encounter ancient Chinese bronzes and ceramics. They come from another time and another culture and follow their own ideas of form, material and meaning. Yet connections emerge: in the clarity of form, in the attention given to surfaces and materials, and not least in what is allowed to remain unspoken and empty, and in what arises in between.

In cooperation with Vanderven Oriental Art, ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

With works by: Pablo Atchugarry · Hermann Bartels · Hal Busse · Antonio Calderara · Chun Kwang Young · Dadamaino · Herman de Vries · Raimund Girke · Hermann Goepfert · Gotthard Graubner · Gerhard Hoehme · Tschang-Yeul Kim · Stefan Kürten · Walter Leblanc · Heinz Mack · Piero Manzoni · Fausto Melotti · Milan Mölzer · Morio Nishimura · Robert Ryman · Ursula Schulz-Dornburg · Turi Simeti · Paul Van Hoeydonck and ancient Chinese bronzes and ceramics

Opening: 4 September, 6 pm
On view: 5 September – 21 November 2026

BECK & EGGELING International Fine Art 
Bilker Str. 5 / 40213 Düsseldorf
Germany