Eberhard Bosslet - Dossier of Works

Dossier of Works

• 1979: Self-referential works in words and writing-form of painting, photography, wall-drawings, and plates; site-specific interior work with wall-drawings and plates.

• Since 1979:
  • Sculptures and installations with electric light and electric steering;
  • Performance "Per-/Re-ception" (Wahr-nehmen) in a hall at an industrial yard in Speyer, Germany, using electric installation, electric light, zinc sulfide (phosphorus); photographic details of existing situations in the hall, projected in color or black-and-white negative slides, on the situations themselves.

• 1980: Wood panels, coated with colored varnish, and variably arranged in layers.

• Since 1980: Broken glass-panes, site-specific and installation works, as well as paintings with partially colored-coated broken glass, acrylic panes and flexible PVC sheets indoors and outdoors. view1. view2

• 1981: Works with roadway markings and roadblocks.

• 1982: "Mobilien & Immobilien" (Movables & Immovables), a series of photographs, produced with a painted Vespa motor scooter, and colored house facades at Tenerife/Canary Islandes. view

• 1982 - 84: "Mobiliar" (Furniture), and "Stand der Dinge" (Status Quo); photographs of interior designs in which the backgrounds and objects were painted. view

• Since 1982:
  • Series of color photographs at the Canary Islands, Spain;
  • Urban exploration: so-called "scrap metal and sun"; Abandoned cars in southern landscape view;
  • "Interventions" in public space, site specific art,
• 1983: Works of rubble at a waste dump.

• 1983 - 2009:
  • Works with ruins, so-called "Re/formations and side effects"; here, stabilization and destabilization of perception of conditions of industrial and residential buildings by white painted lines or black painted color fields;
  • Side-specific outdoor intervention. view

• construction drawing - La Restinga II, El Hierro, 1983

• side effect VII, Guimar,Teneriffa, 1990

• side effect X, Tajao, Teneriffa, Südseite, 2006

• side effect X, Tias, Lanzarote, 2008

• 1985 - 88: Painting — each form complex has its own color and paint material; the "facade ground" is a significantly visible component, and is of equal value as the variables, "form, color, and paint material". view

• Since 1985: "Supporting Measures" — indoor, space-related installations and sculptures with items of the building trade; here, new arrangement of space, apparent stabilization and destabilization of the building material and the space itself, by building in structural bodies. view

• UM-ANT-Expander, Antwerpen 1985

• Anmaßend I, documenta 8, Kassel, 1987

• Supporting Measures at Mercer Union, Toronto, 1988

• Modulare Struktur - flat, Prato, 1988

• Modulare Struktur - Raster B3/89, Berlin, 1989

• UM Bregenz 90/04,Thurn & Taxis Palais, 2004

• Stallung Bregenz 90/04,Thurn & Taxis Palais, 2004

• Modulare Struktur - Hochkant 90/09 KV-IN-PERI, Ingolstadt 2009

• Subwaystation Auf dem Damm, Duisburg, 2000

• 1986: "Basements" — low, floorplan-like sculptures, with concrete blocks and copper pipe, or bricks and copper pipe.

• 1987 - 1989|89: Sculptures of "Filing Cabinets" with wood, steel strips; tension and pressure keeps the new order of components stable. view

• Since 1989:
• "Tapestry" of industrial textiles, with no "ground" due to the color-form-material complexes, sewed up next to each other;
• Wall fixtures, varying in type and shape, have a supporting and visual function. view

• Since 1989:
  • Project drawings for planned sculptures and installations, computer-generated using a pixel-oriented program, and printed with a 24-needle printer;
  • "Pneumatic Pieces" — Free-standing works, with hydraulically- or pneumatically-driven lifting devices for inside; "contraptions" made of items from industrial and domestic parts. view
  • "Pneumatic Installations" — Installed works, with hydraulically- or pneumatically-driven lifting devices for both inside and outside; "contraptions" made of items from industrial and domestic parts. view

• 1993 - 98:
  • "Bilaterale Beziehungen" (Bilateral Relations);
• "Screens": Lattice-structures of rubber- or polyurethane-mounted on both sides of a wall; anchor bars inserted into holes in the walls, helical pressure springs, and anchor nuts have a visual function and hold the parts together.
  • "Gloriolen": cast reliefs, mounted on both sides of a wall, using the same principle as in "Screens", the cast reliefs are held together through anchor bars, helical pressure springs, and anchor nuts that also have a visual function. view

• Since 1995: "Barrieren" (Barriers) — foundation-like, knee-high constructions in concrete and steel reinforcement, made on site, designed for the dimensions of the space, and blocking the evident path through the room. view

• 1998 - 2001: "Spacelab" — made out of living room lights from the 50-70ths, hanging from the ceiling. view

• Since 2000:
  • "Analogic Discs"
  • Paintings: Trampolines are the support, which is a constructive and visual part of the appearance. The support, the form, the material and the color are different, and they are piled on each other. view

• Since 2001
  • Biomorphic sculptures "Stool Archipelago", "Island growth", "stump stools" are groups of sculptures made of fibreglass plastic on the basis of known organic forms.

• Since 2003
  • Colour photo series entitled Falsches Wasser (Fake Water) featuring ships and boats on land in town or countryside settings on the Canary Islands, Spain.

• Since 2006
  • EinRaumHaus (OneRoomHouse) colour photo series of small buildings in the landscape of the Canary Islands, Spain.
  • Instant sculptures: The sculpture entitled "roundabout" for the public space, consisting of industrial units such as trolleys and fences, which contrary to its conventional use are connected to mega-structures.