(\u2026) \u201cDiscover\u201d, the new series of works by Dietmar Brixy, is all about exploring and discovering: understood as a creative, productive journey of discovery and thus both the process of artistic creation and a visually exciting journey of exploration for us as viewers. From 28 September to 20 October 2012, Brixy\u2018s Old Pumping Station in Mannheim-Neckarau was not only a spectacular showcase for the \u201cDiscover\u201d series: flowing and gestural, overflowing with hints of vegetation and oscillating between abstraction and representation. The glorious garden surrounding this neo-Gothic industrial structure once again provided the creative impetus for Brixy\u2018s lyrical, impasto painting full of tension and new accents.<\/p>\n
In the context of this trompe l\u2018oeuil of submerging and emerging, of gesturally meandering streams of color, dripping foliage and layering of color fields intentionally left empty, Dietmar Brixy integrated the show of recent works by the renowned German metal sculptor Herbert Mehler (born 1949), with the awareness that Mehler\u2018s almost organic, \u201ccavex\u201d sculptures made of Cor-Ten steel are the product of a \u201cprocess of construction parallel to nature\u201d (Kai Uwe Schierz). Like Brixy\u2018s painting, they also bear witness to precisely this discovery.<\/p>\n