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The exhibition focuses on the reconstruction of the solo exhibition GELB YELLOW JAUNE, which Franz Erhard Walther planned for 1965 but never realized. Eight yellow works by Walther were to be shown in eight rooms of the former Galerie Junge Kunst Fulda: six action pieces, including variations on the elements of the first set of works, and two large site-specific works that anticipate aspects of his later spatial works of the 1970s. While the color uniformity of the works, an homage to Yves Klein, clearly references the contemporary art of the time, the radical nature of the project lies in the action and spatial references of the works.
The exhibition, conceived with works from 1963/64, highlights a moment in Walther’s artistic development when he had to make the most important decisions in the history of his work. The awareness that he had found a completely new approach with the approximation of the works and the idea of action by the viewers, which he began in March 1963, is met with numerous unresolved questions and debates with the art scene surrounding him at his place of study in Düsseldorf and the Rhineland.
In his diary entries from this period, some of which can be discovered at VILLA, it becomes clear how challenging it was to determine the central ideas behind his work without compromising the radical nature of his approach through variations on an idea, unnecessary elements, or the inclusion of aspects of the contemporary …
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Image above: Franz Erhard Walther, Aktivierung der „Roten Scheibe“ // Activation of the „Roten Scheibe“, Düsseldorf, 1965 © Archiv Franz Erhard Walther Foundation // Franz Erhard Walther Foundation Archives, Foto // photo: Reiner Ruthenbeck.
