Bodo Sperling
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Bodo Sperling is a German artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

, painter
Painting
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 and inventor.

Life

Bodo Sperling grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig
Leipzig
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, Amsterdam
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 and Berlin
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.
One focus of his work is the development of scientific models by looking at the aesthetics
Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...

, and the implementation
Implementation
Implementation is the realization of an application, or execution of a plan, idea, model, design, specification, standard, algorithm, or policy.-Computer Science:...

 of scientific models in objects. In 1985 he calls his art direction "Objectivism".

Another focus of his work is the documentation of physical processes through their aesthetic. The German philosopher Thomas Metzinger
Thomas Metzinger
Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher. he holds the position of director of the theoretical philosophy group at the department of philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and on the advisory board of the...

, manager of the workspace Neurophilosophy at Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies is a private-public institution for basic theoretical research in various areas of sciencefocusing on interdisiplinary research located in Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany....

. Science Arts writes in the catalogue Transparency of Consciousness that "Its crystal panels were probably the reason why so much attention, because they work in a particular object, the quasi-spiritual principles of order in nature itself to turn aesthetic intuition accessible." (See Figure Crystal Object Objectivism)
Since 1985 he has worked with computers as a design tool. Two of his paintings are exhibited at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
The Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany is an interdisciplinary art museum and research institution focusing on new media....

.

1990/1991 Spokesman of the Federal Association of Artists BBK Frankfurt. 1990 Sperling served as authorized negotiators, negotiations for unification of the Federal Association of Artists with the GDR - Artists Association. He was one of the four founders of the East Side Gallery
East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery is an international memorial for freedom. It is a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall located near the centre of Berlin on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.-Description:...

, Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...

, Berlin
Berlin
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. in March 1990.
In May 2011 he filed with other artists of the "founding Initiative East Side" complaint before the District Court of Berlin, due to destruction of art and infringement of copyright. The redevelopment of the East Side Gallery in 2009 destroyed most of a listed building images, and their conceptual artistic Character of 1990.

Sperling 1992 installed on the 1st Total German artist Congress in Potsdam
Potsdam
Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, a five-meter high mobile
Mobile (sculpture)
A mobile is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium. It consists of a number of rods, from which weighted objects or further rods hang. The objects hanging from the rods balance each other, so that the rods remain more or less horizontal...

, which, illuminated by slides, the impression of a constantly changing 3-D film
3-D film
A 3-D film or S3D film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception...

  produced. From 1980 the first pictures emerged from crystals and crystal panels. Sperling describes his artistic work as Objectivism
Objectivity (philosophy)
Objectivity is a central philosophical concept which has been variously defined by sources. A proposition is generally considered to be objectively true when its truth conditions are met and are "mind-independent"—that is, not met by the judgment of a conscious entity or subject.- Objectivism...

.
In 1991 he created at the national exhibition in Kassel, a video installation that confronted the viewer with the objective documentation of Spacetime
Spacetime
In physics, spacetime is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum. Spacetime is usually interpreted with space as being three-dimensional and time playing the role of a fourth dimension that is of a different sort from the spatial dimensions...

. It was installed on a several tons of stone altar on which stood a steel basin. In this steel basin formed over time crystals from a boiling solution. The entire process has been documented over several weeks by an automatic camera.
The basis of his work, he sees in line with research by Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake is an English scientist. He is known for having proposed an unorthodox account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology. His books and papers stem from his theory of morphic resonance, and cover topics such as animal and plant development and behaviour, memory,...

 and his theory of Morphic field.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1983 Gustav-Siegle-Haus / Stuttgart
    Stuttgart
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  • 1986 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Das AKTFOTO (The nude photo) ideology - aesthetic - history, Museum of the 20th Century Vienna. 15 years prior to 2000 - the portrayal of violence and brutality is still a priority over the representation of sexuality, Time-critical art action, Frankfurt
  • 1990 co-founder of East Side Gallery
    East Side Gallery
    The East Side Gallery is an international memorial for freedom. It is a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall located near the centre of Berlin on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.-Description:...

     November 1989, Berlin, image #18 "The transformation of the pentagram to a peace star in a Europe without walls" 10m x 3,60 m on Berlin Wall
  • 1990The Pleasures within Distance, WINDOW / Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
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  • 1991 Hessian National Exhibition / Kassel
    Kassel
    Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

  • 1992 Kunsthalle Darmstadt
    Darmstadt
    Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...

    , Solo Exhibition, Art Prize of the DAG, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Darmstadt
  • 1993 Goethe-Institut
    Goethe-Institut
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     / Prag, Tschechien
  • 1994 Museum Wiesbaden Hessiale 94 / Wiesbaden
    Wiesbaden
    Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...

    , national art exhibition of the Federal Association of Artists

Collections, commissions, public art

  • Computer Associates, implementation of the architectural design of the CA firm building in a mural for the entrance hall 1.60mx 3.60m, Acrylic on canvas and design base for the East Side Galley image on the Berlin Wall in 1990, Germany
  • East Side Galley, image #18 "The transformation of the pentagram to a peace star in a Europe without walls" 10m x 3,60 m on Berlin Wall 1990, Berlin, Germany
  • Museum of Contemporary Art ZKM Karlsruhe, "B3", 1991, Computer painting on silver photo canvas, 100 x 140 cm · "B7", 1991, Computer painting on silver photo canvas, 100 x 140 cm, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, implementation of the "Cathedral of Siena", acrylic on canvas 2.20mx 90 cm, Frankfurt / Siena - Italy

Literature

  • Oberbaum: East Side Gallery Berlin 1991 (catalog) ISBN 3-928254-02-2 (catalog)
  • Landeskunstausstellung ´94, National Art Exhibition, 1994 ISBN 3-9804024-0-1 (catalog)
  • Thomas Metzinger: The Artistic Work Bodo Sperling, in: transparency of consciousness, Digital Art Museum, Frankfurt 1997 (catalog)
  • Hessiale `94, National Art Exhibition Kassel, ISBN 3-9804024-0-1 (catalog)
  • Zylvia Auerbach (ed.): The Distancewithin Pleasures, Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

     1990, ISBN 0-646-01536-2 (catalog)
  • Art contacts Germany, Austria
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    , Switzerland
    Switzerland
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    , 1992-93
    , type address-Verlag, Frankfurt 1991
  • Ernest Kay (ed.): Who's Who in Western Europe. International Biographical Center, Cambridge
    Cambridge
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     1981, ISBN 978-0-900332-61-6
  • DuMont: 365 Orte - Eine Reise zu Deutschlands Zukunftsmachern. ISBN 978-3-7701-8216-9

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