POSITIONS – 44

In the exhibition “Glanz and Gloria,” image, object and meaning converge in a subtle tension between explosion and elegance, materiality and memory.

The positions of Beatrice Müller and Andreas Streicher unfold as a dialogue between contemporary pictorial language and symbolically charged objects.

Andreas Streicher is represented by a so-called explosion painting (Sprengbild) — a work in which energy, fragmentation and controlled chance merge into a condensed visual expression. The piece bears the trace of an explosion and at the same time becomes a quiet witness to a moment of maximum tension: suspended between destruction and the emergence of form.

Opposite this stands “Glanz and Gloria” by Beatrice Müller — a specially developed art object in the form of a wine glass whose stem is encircled by a golden ring set with multicolored tourmalines.

In this work, jewelry, vessel and sculpture fuse into a poetic unity.

For Beatrice Müller, the experience of art and the enjoyment of wine are closely related cultural practices: both require time, attention and a willingness to perceive. Her work functions as a bridge between image and ritual, between viewing and experiencing. The glass becomes a carrier of memory, the ring a sign of appreciation — for the moment, for the artwork, for life itself.

In the artist’s vision, the object can be acquired together with Andreas Streicher’s painting:
the image remains on the wall —
the glass becomes a portable memory,
a material extension of the visual experience in gold, stone and touch.

Thus a quiet dialogue emerges:
explosion and gemstone,
detonation and ring,
image and enjoyment.

“Glanz and Gloria” reflects on the value of art — not only in economic terms, but as a field of experience between sensuality, symbol and time. The exhibition brings together contemporary painting and object art, opening a space in which perception, material and ritual can be reimagined.