Elbisbach is Thomas Rentmeister's fifth solo exhibition in the gallery since his first exhibition in 1999, the initial year of Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS.
The title refers to a forgotten village in Germany, close to Leipzig where oblivion has struck, but an abandoned building with leftover goods seems to tell a completely different story.
Thomas Rentmeister (Reken, Germany, 1964) uses everyday objects - or references to these objects - to construct and build up his work, with a persistent need to find the Minimalist conditions in them. He often incorporates unconventional materials such as heaps of grained coffee or Nutella traces. Rentmeister works with refrigerators with baby cream or blocks of paper tissues; he uses pots and pans with concrete columns in it, and smooth polished polyester with references to 60-ties furniture.
